Barely Buzzed by Beehive Cheese Co – Whole Form (5 pound)

Price: $137.98
(as of Apr 23, 2023 02:33:04 UTC – Details)

Product Description

Beehive’s Barely Buzzed Cheese

This is a full-bodied cheese with a nutty flavor and smooth texture. The cheese is hand rubbed with a Turkish grind of Colorado Legacy Coffee Company’s (The Cheesemakers brother) “Beehive Blend”. The blend consists of a mix of South American, Central American, and Indonesian beans roasted to different styles. French Superior Lavender buds are ground with the coffee and the mixture is diluted with oil to suspend the dry ingredients in the rub. The rub imparts notes of butterscotch and caramel, which are prevalent near the rind, but find their way to the center of the cheese. The cheese is aged on Utah Blue Spruce aging racks in Beehive Cheese Co’s humidity controlled caves, and moved to different temperatures during the four-month aging process to develop texture and flavor.

When you take a bite of Beehive Cheese, it melts like butter in your mouth- that’s because it’s made from some of the creamiest and cleanest milk in Utah, lovingly crafted into specialty cheese by a family who shares a passion for the artisan way of life. In 2005, brothers-in-law Tim Welsh and Pat Ford left the fast-paced world of software and real estate seeking a more simple way of life as artisan cheese makers. They traded in their grinding traffic commute for quiet mornings sitting with 500 gallons of farm-fresh milk. They gave up briefcases and laptops for the romance of making hand-crafted cheese: hours spent mixing and warming milk, feeling it thicken and envelope the room with the sweet smell of custard. Days spent following natural rhythms: waking before dawn to welcome new milk and feeling the tired ache of sore muscles at day’s end and months waiting with an artisan’s patience for their cheeses to ripen to perfection.

Awards – 1st Place, American Cheese Society Annual Competition 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2016 3rd Place, ACS.

Made with vegetarian rennet.Made in a facility that also processes tree nuts.Made from pasteurized cow’s milk.Photo depicts whole 5 lb. form of cheese.We cut and wrap this item by hand.

The Perfect Party Cheese

What Makes It The Perfect Party Cheese?

Barely Buzzed is the perfect party cheese. It’s easy to pair, stunning to look at, and always the center of attention on the cheese board. Your guests will want to know more about this unique cheese, and we know there will be a lively discussion about “Buzzed” whenever it’s in the room.

The espresso and lavender rub imparts notes of butterscotch and caramel, which are prevalent near the rind, but find their way to the center of the cheese. This is a full-bodied cheese with a nutty flavor and smooth texture.

How Is It Made?

Hours after it’s made, the special grind is rubbed on the rind. The 20-pound wheel ages for 6-8 months. As it ages, our cheesemakers test each batch to determine the right time to introduce the wheel into the world. And once it arrives on your doorstep, get ready for an adventure in pairing!

The Award Winning Beehive’s Barely Buzzed Cheese

Award

1st Place American Cheese Society (ACS) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 20151st Place Idaho Milk Processors Association (IMPA) 2017, 20182nd Place World Cheese Awards (WCA) 2018, 20192nd Place IMPA 20163rd Place ACS 20163rd Place WCA 2012, 2017, 2018, 20213rd Place IMPA 2017, 2018

The story of Barely Buzzed Cheese

Barely Buzzed was launched into the national spotlight in 2007 when it won 1st Place at the American Cheese Society Conference. If we had listened to the scientists, then Buzzed would have never existed.

In a moment of “not knowing what we didn’t know” owner and founder Tim Welsh combined whole bean coffee and a dash of lavender in a burr grinder and decided to rub it on an experimental 5 pound “baby” wheel of Promontory. The coffee was – and still is – roasted in Grand Junction, CO by Tim’s brother at Colorado Legacy Coffee Company. We use local Utah lavender, as well.

The baby wheel went off to the aging cooler and was mostly forgotten about until our cheesemaking mentors from Utah State University came to visit to see how we were doing after only a year of being in business. Pat and Tim mentioned the espresso and lavender experiment to the team of scientists. They shook their heads and launched into three highly scientific reasons why this cheese would be terrible.

They tasted this unnamed coffee-lavender dusted cheese… and they were dead wrong.

In principle, it should have been a comedic mistake, but instead this crazy idea launched an entirely new way of “flavoring” a wheel without compromising the beautiful paste of the cheese. Now this method of rubbing only the rind of a wheel of cheese has spread across the artisan cheese community.

In 2006, Tim and Kari attended the small, but growing American Cheese Society conference in Portland, Oregon to get feedback on their cheese. They stealthily slipped Barely Buzzed on a table at a cheese maker party and hid in the corner nervously watching conference attendees try the cheese. People loved it!

The experience was intimidating but encouraging. They headed back to Utah with renewed confidence and started working on getting Barely Buzzed ready for its competition debut at the 2007 American Cheese Society conference in Vermont.

In Vermont, Barely Buzzed took 1st place in its category and was the belle of the ball. It was all the things: exciting, innovative, and produced by a plucky unknown upstart from UTAH, of all places.

From there the demand for Barely Buzzed skyrocketed and quickly became a cult classic among cheesemongers and cheese lovers. To date, Buzzed has racked up 18 major awards.

Ingredient info

Vegetarian rennet, cow’s milk, all ingredients rubbed on the rind are organic, this is a gluten-friendly product

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5 Pounds
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ igourmet
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071LJJDDJ

The Award Winning and Truly Stunning Beehive’s Barely Buzzed Cheese – Your guests will want to know more about this unique cheese, and we guarantee there will be a lively discussion about “Buzzed” whenever it’s in the room.
What Does Beehive’s Barely Buzzed Cheese taste like – The espresso and lavender rub imparts notes of butterscotch and caramel, which are prevalent near the rind, but find their way to the center of the cheese. This is a full-bodied cheese with a nutty flavor and smooth texture.
How this fantastic cheese is made – Hours after it’s made, the special grind is rubbed on the rind. The 20-pound wheel ages for 6-8 months. As it ages, our cheesemakers test each batch to determine the right time to introduce the wheel into the world. And once it arrives on your doorstep, get ready for an adventure in pairing!
Good To Know: Vegetarian rennet, cow’s milk, all ingredients rubbed on the rind are organic, this is a gluten-friendly product that you will absolutely never ever forget.