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boney
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The Ilchester is awesome. It's one of my wife's favorite cheeses. We even used to be able to find it at most Fortinos in Hamilton 3-4 years ago. It was pretty scarce in Calgary, though. Haven't tried tracking it down since I've been back in Ontario, but I sense some in my near future.
FYI for Hamilton folk. If you didn't know (probably do), the brain has a nice cheese plate, with a crazy amount of cheese for what they charge. |
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SteelbackGuy
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| boney wrote: | The Ilchester is awesome. It's one of my wife's favorite cheeses. We even used to be able to find it at most Fortinos in Hamilton 3-4 years ago. It was pretty scarce in Calgary, though. Haven't tried tracking it down since I've been back in Ontario, but I sense some in my near future.
FYI for Hamilton folk. If you didn't know (probably do), the brain has a nice cheese plate, with a crazy amount of cheese for what they charge. |
They also only serve IPAs to young people. Cause that is who drinks them.
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GregClow
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like this is turning into a more general cheese discussion thread, which is great. Just wondering if we should change the title of the thread to reflect that.
cratez - as the originator, would you be cool with it changing? |
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cratez
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| GregClow wrote: | Seems like this is turning into a more general cheese discussion thread, which is great. Just wondering if we should change the title of the thread to reflect that.
cratez - as the originator, would you be cool with it changing? |
Sure, why not.
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Belgian
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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I vote we call it Cheez-O-riffic MANIA!!.
Recently I saw a St. Ambroise cheese, washed with St. Amby beer of some kind, maybe I saw that at Chabichou on Harbord near Bathurst. They are an insane store.
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irishkyle21
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Or just add it to the other cheese thread 
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GregClow
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| irishkyle21 wrote: | | Or just add it to the other cheese thread |
Is there an older cheese thread? Huh. Totally forgot about it.  |
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Torontoblue
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irishkyle21
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:45 am Post subject: |
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That's the one. Holy crap, I didn't think it was that long ago! I couldn't find it for some reason.
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Belgian
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| GregClow wrote: | | irishkyle21 wrote: | | Or just add it to the other cheese thread |
Is there an older cheese thread? Huh. Totally forgot about it. |
Maybe we can have the older cheese thread, and a semi-ripe cheese thread.
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Torontoblue
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:44 am Post subject: |
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The Aged Cheese thread is still pretty relevant...it just got lost in the myriad of newer postings.
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cratez
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Greg - I don't mind if we combine them. I searched for a relevant thread before posting and couldn't find one, but they're pretty much the same topic.
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boney
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I made the very adult decision that I only wanted to have cheese, beer and bread for diner tonight, so I heaed down to the Cheese Shoppe on Locke. First time at that particular shop. Very impressed. Walked away with....
-Chimay
-Blue Haze, Ontario (smoked blue)
-Le Gre dus Champ, France (organic raw cows milk.....which I'm pretty sure is code for "bovine tuberculosis", but I just can't help myself. Mmmmm raw cows milk) |
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GregClow
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| boney wrote: | | -Blue Haze, Ontario (smoked blue) |
Oh, yeah - I LOVE that cheese! It's gorgeous stuff.
Interesting story, too - it actually starts as a cheese called Blue Benedictine made by monks in Quebec, and then Provincial Fine Foods smokes and ages it here in Ontario to turn it into Blue Haze. |
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irishkyle21
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Had one of the best pieces of cheese I've ever had yesterday. I can't remember the name of it. It had grape skins around it as a rind. After googling I figure it was a type of "formaggio ubriaco". So good. It had bite to it similar to a medium blue, but also a little welchs grape juice kind of sweetness. I'll try and get the name and post it if I do.
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