Coastal Rugged Mature Cheddar
This england made cheese is ford farm s best selling cheddar cheese and is aged up to 15 months to give it its perfectly distinctive sweet flavor.
Coastal rugged mature cheddar. Coastal is a rugged and mature cheddar aged for a minimum of 15 months and has a rich intense flavour with a contrasting sweet top note. This multi award winning cheddar is hand crafted every step of the way from turning the curds to bandaging it in cheese clothes before it is aged for up to 15 months. Coastal cheddar is produced and matured at the ford farm dairy located on the word heritage jurassic coastline of dorset. Aged for a minimum of fifteen months coastal is often characterised with a distinctive crunch a result of the calcium lactate crystals which form naturally in the cheese as it matures.
About coastal rugged mature cheddar. The taste of the cheese is salty yet sweet and its texture is rugged yet creamy. Sourced from whole foods this is the kind of cheese that when you cut a slice and stand it up the crumble factor makes it bend and snap halfway. At a recent trip to the sf costco i bought coastal rugged mature english cheddar cheese a white cheddar aged for a minimum of 15 months.
To me it s too rich for eating by itself. Coastal is a unique tasting cheddar from ford farm. The naturally formed calcium crystals sometimes found in the cheese are a sign of age and show that it has reached its optimum maturity. Ford farm have strived to capture all the characteristics of the world heritage coastline by.
17 ounces costs about 7. It isn t a great cheddar but it s different and that s okay. This cheese is sold by the pound isn t the most expensive on the list. Coastal rugged mature cheddar cheese.
Delight in ford farm s rich and rugged coastal cheddar with its rich intense flavour and distinctive crunch. Aged for up to 15 months it has a nice tartness but not overpowering. Coastal has been developed to appeal to the consumer demand for rich rugged and mature cheddars. The seaside rugged mature english cheddar is a good cheese.
We have strived to capture all the characteristics of the world heritage coast line in coastal by giving it a rugged texture salty yet sweet flavor and sun. It is characterised by a distinctive crunch which is produced by calcium lactate crystals that naturally form during the maturation. After several hours at room temperature the cheese seems to sweat its fat. Coastal is our best selling cheddar revered not only by the local dorset population but thanks to our to the export side of our business by thousands of americans across the pond too.
Different in this case is pretty good and works in less conventional ways. The label highlights the calcium crystals. Coastal is a unique tasting cheddar aged up to 15 months for a deliciously sweet distinctive flavour. Coastal was first launched in 2000.