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The Best Beer and Cider Cheese Pairings for Fall


10 cheese and beverage pairings you need to try this fall, featuring trappist ale, cider, and perry.

Perfect Pairings with FireFly Farm’s Cabra LaMancha


What makes a perfect cheese pairing? According to FireFly Farms co-owner, Pablo Solanet, an ideal cheese pairing is made up of flavors that play on one other. “When you have a good pairing the two flavors compliment each other and they blend, they enhance each other. And that’s when you know you have a perfect […]

Great 28 Pairings: Rauchbier


Finessing the Rauchbier recipe has enabled New World brewers to deliver a more subtle smoke profile that plays nicely with a host of food pairings.

The Best Cheese to Pair with Coffee Stout


An expert rounds up the best coffee stouts to pair with your favorite cheeses.

Cheesie's grilled cheese

In Queso You Missed It October 14th


Happy American Cheese Month, everyone! What better way to usher in this beautiful October? Fall has officially been here for a few weeks, but we’re finally seeing cooler weather. Now it’s time for sipping Pumpkin Spice Lattes without secretly sweating through our oversized sweaters. Here’s what you might have missed last week in cheese news: […]

Little Brett Credit Allagash Brewing

Pair these Funky, Fizzy Brett Beers with Stinky Cheese


Brewers are embracing Brettanomyces yeast to bring wild new flavors to beer. The result is a bone-dry, effervescent brew perfect for funkier wedges.

It’s a (Cheese) Marathon


Planet Cheese is a weekly blog devoted to everything cheese: products, people, places, news, and views. James Beard Award-winning journalist Janet Fletcher writes Planet Cheese from her home in Napa Valley. Janet is the author of Cheese & Wine, Cheese & Beer, and The Cheese Course and an occasional contributor to culture. Visit janetfletcher.com to […]

gose

Cheese + Beer: Gose


Germany’s sour, salt-sprinkled gose is having a moment

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