The independent guide to Bavarian cheese in America
Call it Emmentaler’s baby brother, but the family resemblance hides a different life. Allgäuer Bergkäse is born high and raised low: made in the Allgäu Alps during the spring months,…
In 1821, the Bavarian Elector imported two Swiss master dairymen from the Emme Valley and set them to work in the Allgäu. Two centuries later, their recipe is a Bavarian…
There is a cheese in Bavaria that was patented by a king, named for the drink it demands, and is now made by exactly one dairy. Its milk comes from…