Cider and Cheese

Date added: 17th September 2011

Cheese and Cider.

Summer may be almost over, and the barbeques may be heading back into the shed, but that doesn't mean your cider bottles should be gathering dust as well.

Because of its range of tastes - sweet, medium and dry and with the emergence of different flavours, cider compliments a whole range of foods. So let the ice melt and start enjoying your cider with cheese!

Cider and cheese may have more in common than you may think and British farmhouse producers are amongst the best you can get. After all The Cornish Cheese Company's, Cornish Blue recently won the coveted 'Best Cheese in the World' award, and well, we may be biased but there is no match for a good British cider!

Well then where to start? Somerset of course! We all associate Somerset with cider and cheddar cheese. So head to your fridge, grab a bottle of Burrow Hill cider and some mature cheddar. The salty bitterness of the cheddar perfectly compliments the earthy medium dry taste of the cider.

If a camembert is more of your thing, try a Tunworth, an English style camembert cheese from Hampshire. This goes really well with our very own Misty Cider. Especially is the Tunworth is ripe and oozing from the bloomy rind. Think of it as a British equivalent to camembert and calvados.

For a ewe's milk cheese such as Caerphilly or Berkswell. Both hard and rich cheeses. Try Gwyent's Dabinett cider, then tannins in the bittersweet cider will cut straight through the rich butterfat's and proteins of the ewes milk.

Goats cheeses goes well with floral flavours, so a sweet and appley cider is needed here, and what is sweeter or applier than Thistly Cross' Strong and Scottish original cider. Get a young and fresh goats cheese like Innes Bosworth Ash and its light citrusy tones work wonderfully with the medium sweet 7.2% cider.

Now not all cheeses will go with all ciders, so what I recommend is getting some of your favourite cheeses and a few bottles of cider form our fantastic 'Twisted Cider' range and have an experiment!
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