Advanced Cheesemaking: Simplifying Difficult Cheeses 

Fall 2024—dates TBD

Registration: Downloadable registration form will be available when dates are set.

Advanced Cheesemaking is a 6 day intensive designed for cheesemakers who own or work for small-scale, licensed, commercial cheese businesses and want to expand product lines, experiment with new cultures and recipes, and improve quality.  The focus is on making, aging, and controlling quality, and the session will revolve around hands-on cheesemaking and thorough discussion.  

Advanced sessions elaborate upon the information presented in Introduction to Artisan Cheesemaking. Experience in commercial cheesemaking is assumed.

  • Cheeses: Blues, Bloomy and Washed Rind, Tomme, Alpine & Grana

  • Recipe Development

  • Starter and Ripening Cultures, including Autochthonous Microbes (Native Starters)

  • Cheese Specific Aging Techniques

  • Equipment & Facilities

  • Cheese Grading & Quality Control

  • Food Safety & FSMA requirements

Cost is $1400 for six day workshop.  Participants are encouraged to bring cheeses for tasting and group evaluation.

This session will be held at Parish Hill Creamery, Westminster West, VT.

Registration information and policies can be found here.