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Hampton farm’s goat cheese wins top spot at World Cheese Championships in Wisconsin

Hampton farm’s goat cheese wins top spot at World Cheese Championships in Wisconsin

Tribune-Review (March 23, 2022) – A Hampton farm has partnered with local businesses to create one of the world’s best cheeses, at least according to the judges at the World Championship Cheese Contest, held March 1-3 in Wisconsin.

Bamboozle cheese, created from a blend of goat and cow’s milk at Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy in Hampton, took first place in the competition’s surface-ripened mixed-milk cheese category. It is aged for at least two months and washed with Tracks Again, an unfiltered pilsner brewed by Pittsburgh-based Cinderlands Beer Co. It is a semi-soft cheese with notes of prosciutto and peanuts.


Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy Brings Home Gold in 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest

Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy Brings Home Gold in 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest

Local Pittsburgh (March 9, 2022) – Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy becomes the ‘big cheese’ after taking first place for their cheese Bamboozle during last week’s biennial World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, Wisconsin on March 1-3, 2022. The World Championship Cheese Contest is the largest technical cheese, butter, yogurt, and dry dairy ingredient competition in the world. Hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association since 1957, this year’s contest received a total of 2,919 entries from 28 countries worldwide.

Variety of Cheeses Declared Best of Show in Pennsylvania Farm Show Cheese Competition

Variety of Cheeses Declared Best of Show in Pennsylvania Farm Show Cheese Competition

Lancaster Farming (January 16, 2022) – If you’ve ever wondered why photographers ask you to “Smile and say cheese!” it’s likely because they want you to envision a mouthwatering, gooey toasted cheese sandwich or a bubbling casserole of homemade mac and cheese. That might not have been exactly what the judges at the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s cheese competition had in mind for last weekend, but they surely had smiles on their faces when they sampled the artisan cheeses set before them.

Local Goat Rodeo lassos best cheese honors at PA Farm Show

Local Goat Rodeo lassos best cheese honors at PA Farm Show

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 13, 2022) – The name might mean to dupe or deceive, but there’s no fooling anyone: Goat Rodeo Farm’s “Bamboozle” cheese is the best in Pennsylvania.

The Indiana Township  farm and dairy’s signature beer-washed goat and cow’s milk cheese was named best in show at the 106th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg on Jan. 8. The show ends Saturday.

“It’s pretty awesome,” co-founder India Loevner said. She and her husband, Steve, started the 130-farm in the North Hills in 2015. “We’re proud of all of our cheeses. But it really means a lot to get that kind of recognition.”

Described as a “supple, semi-soft texture with notes of prosciutto and peanuts,” the cheese uses milk from their herd of 140 Alpine and Nubian dairy goats combined with cow’s milk from Le-Ara Farms in Armstrong County. The cheese is aged for at least two months and washed with “Tracks Again,” an unfiltered pilsner from Cinderlands Beer Co. in the Strip District.


Discover These Great Local Cheeses

Discover These Great Local Cheeses

DISCOVER THESE GREAT LOCAL CHEESES – OR, HOW TO BRING MORE HUNKS IN YOUR LIFE

Philadelphia Inquirer (March 1, 2017) – If weather and politics have your head in a muddle, perk up with the latest cheese report. There’s never been a better time to explore the spring outlook in terms of fresh curds and cheese boards.

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