Basics of Home Cheesemaking - Capercailie Consulting- Appleton Creamery

Basics of Home Cheesemaking Workshop

Basics of Home Cheesemaking - Capercailie Consulting- Appleton CreameryOffered by Capercaillie Consulting/Appleton Creamery.

April 17 & 18:  A hands-on workshop in basic home cheese making. In this two-day workshop we’ll be using simple equipment you may already have at home to make a jack cheese the first day, press overnight, then finish the second. In addition, we will also make feta, yogurt, a lactic cheese, quick mozzarella, and ricotta, depending on the interests of the class. This workshop will concentrate on basic cow cheeses using Springdale Farm cow milk but will also delve briefly into goat cheese. Basic use of ripening cultures and rennet and milk chemistry will be covered. You will go home with cheese that you’ve made!

9 am – 4 pm at Stone Fox Farm Creamery, 398 East Main Street, (Rt 1), Searsport Maine – 

$300/person, $275/person if a couple – Sign up here.

Event

2024 EVENTS DATES ANNOUNCED

Maine Cheese Guild 2024 Events

The Maine Cheese Guild is making plans for its’ two major 2024 Events. SAVE THESE DATES?!

Maine Cheese Festival – Sunday, September 8, in Pittsfield, Maine Learn more about this festival here. It is the Guild’s premier fundraising event, held each year in September. Guild member cheesemakers and allied food businesses gather for this outdoor rain or shine event, showcasing Maine’s rich cheesemaking tradition. Meet the cheesemakers, buy cheese, learn  about but cheesemaking in Maine.

Open Creamery Day, Sunday, October 13, 2024, statewide.  Maine Cheese Guild members open their farms and creameries to the public each October on the Sunday of Indigenous People’s Day. This is an opportunity to stock up on cheese, meet the cheesemakers and their dairy animals and take in gorgeous fall foliage. Learn more here.