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.
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.
This is a splendid time to plan a road trip with dairy pit stops peppered along the way, and what better...
Pittsburgh, PA (July 31, 2017) – Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy is excited to announce it received second place in the ‘Farmstead Category Aged 60 Days or More Made from Goat’s Milk’ at this year’s American Cheese Society (ACS) Judging & Competition. Its Hootenanny cheese was selected as a winner for excellence amongst 2,024 products from 281 different companies.
“To cheesemakers, these awards are ‘The Oscars of Cheese,’” said India...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Aug. 8, 2017) Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy in Indiana Township would like to have a hootenanny, and that is to celebrate its Hootenanny.
The family-owned farm has been in business for only a little more than two years, but it picked up second place at the prestigious American Cheese Society Judging & Competition in Denver late last month for its Hootenanny in the farmstead category for...
NEXTPittsburgh(October 12, 2017) The Hootenanny starts in the pasture.
Specifically, it starts in the patchy grass on India Loevner’s farm: an idyllic, 130-acre reserve populated by Loevner and her husband, at least one horse, and — as of a chilly morning in late September — 138 goats, which graze in herds on a field that’s just barely turning brown. This is Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy, part of a growing community of...