Burts Cheese are excited to announce the launch of their new cheese – Bidlea Blue. The inspiration behind our new cheese … In early 2023, we moved our cheese making facility on to the farm and home of Bidlea Dairy, and have been using milk from the Bidlea herd to make our award winning Burts …
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Our new cheese – Bidlea Blue
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Affineur of the Year 2024
Back in March 2024, we were super excited (and slightly nervous) about the invitation to enter to Affineur of the Year. This involved looking after a young Stilton made by Cromwell Bishop and maturing it to be the best version of the cheese we could imagine. We used our techniques of piercing the cheese through …
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Cheese making workshop reviews
We’ve really enjoyed running our cheese making workshops throughout 2023 and hearing your 5 star reviews … “I attended a cheese making course with Claire and it was a really enjoyable day. We worked in a small group and understood not only the way the incredible Burts Blue is made, but also cream cheese, the …
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All about the mould
How our Burt’s Blue develops its blue… the blue starts to develop on the surface of the cheese around day 7 (image 1), the cheese will then develop its full mouldy coat by around day 14 (image 2), we check the development of internal blue using a cheese iron through the maturation of the cheese …
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Making Burt’s Cheese
This is a series of images we’ve recently run on our social media showing how we make Burt’s Cheese…
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Breaking The Mould by Patrick McGuigan
An interesting article by Patrick McGuigan all about new British Blue cheeses, explains how softer, milder blue cheeses are becoming as popular on the Christmas cheeseboard as Stilton. The article features five new-wave British Blues, which include: Beauvale, Harborne Blue, Lanark Blue, Cornish Blue and our very own Drunken Burt. He suggests pairing …
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Meet the Cookaholics – Claire Burt
Making the video for Meet the Cookaholics for the Neff Cookaholics campaign was a lot of fun, and this is it finished …. Watch “Meet the Cookaholics Claire Burt – Neff Cookaholics The Guardian” on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/109556833?ref=em-share A couple of stills from todays filming…
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Neff Cookaholics Campaign
My usual work wear is a blue hairnet, white coat and white wellies, it is far from glamorous! So being invited to part of the Neff Cookaholics Campaign and finding myself on the cover of a national magazine wasn’t somewhere I thought cheese-making would take me.
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Observer Food Monthly Best Producer 2013
The Observer Food Monthly awards are a big deal in the food industry and being named as Observer Food Monthly was a certainly big deal for us. I’d been making cheese for 3 years in a rented space at the back of the Cheshire Cookery School, it was in 2013, I’d made the decision to …
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