Month: February 2021

Appenzeller Update

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Now at 13 months, the last eight in the fridge . . . see https://tiabr.com/re-i-rub-mine-every-day/ .

To start, just showing off the cheese drawer in my fridge. Many of these are about a year old now:

You do have a cheese drawer, don’t you?

🙂

Luckily, the small bit of blue that insinuated its way in doesn’t seem to have spread.

But, you ask, how does it taste now?

Despite the waxing, the paste is denser. Far from a grating cheese, though, so I suspect that’s just the natural evolution, and it’s still a cracker cheese. Surprised to find that it has become a bit gritty, I assume because of tyrosine crystals.

But wait, how does it taste?

Excellent. The herb mix seems to have penetrated and equalized throughout the cheese, so each bite is consistent with the next. Unsurprised that it’s a bit less mild than earlier, and now seems to have a slightly sourer finish, but the herby-liciousness far outweighs that.

And certainly no vodka taste, so I’m having a vodka tonic to accompany my tasting 🙂

-R