Young Buck 250g
£11.25
Young Buck – Cow’s Milk – Raw – Animal Rennet (Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Made by Mike’s Fancy Cheese, in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, Young Buck is a raw milk blue cheese, made to a Stilton-style recipe that started from a book called Practical Cheesemaking that was published in 1917. Made using milk from a herd of 150 Holstein Friesian cows, Young Buck is a big-flavoured one: spicy, with notes of salt and black pepper and a pleasing creamy paste complemented by the wilder textures on the rind.
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The genius behind Young Buck Cheese is Michael Thomson. One of a new generation of cheese-makers, he studied cheese-making at the School of Artisan Food (a fellow student of Andy, managing partner of The Courtyard Dairy). Whilst studying, he went on placements at Stichelton and Montgomery’s. After graduation, he joined Sparkenhoe Farm as a cheese-maker, responsible for their Red Leicester and developing their unpasteurised Battlefield Blue.
However Mike’s ambition was always to return to Northern Ireland to make raw (unpasteurised milk) cheese. Struggling to find funding through standard methods, Mike eventually managed to obtain the necessary capital by using an online ‘crowd-funding’ site, with over 100 investors.
