Foxglove
- Producer
- Tulip Tree Creamery
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Indiana
- Weight
- 8 oz
- Website
- tuliptreecreamery.com
- Milk
- Cow
- Treatment
- Pasteurised
- Classification
- Semi Soft
- Rind
- Washed
- Style
- Washed-Rind
- Flavor
- Flavor added to rind
This pudgy orange square is everything we want in a washed-rind cheese: oozing and luscious, with a boost of cream and a crave-worthy savoriness that melts into complexity.
Foxglove is the brainchild of Fons Smits and Laura Davenport, who together founded Tulip Tree Creamery in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2014.
Smits, a Dutch native, previously traveled the world consulting creameries and developing dairy products; today, he's Tulip Tree's cheesemaker. Davenport worked in public health and in software before taking the plunge into cheese; she oversees sales, marketing, and education.
The duo sources milk from the Holstein herd at Lot Hill Dairy Farm in nearby Seymour, a Certified Humane operation that uses only non-GMO crops for feed.
Some of that milk is used to produce Foxglove, is a double-cream cheese that’s washed with a brine mixture of yeast, salt, and Cravens Porter Beer from Thr3ee Wise Men Brewery during an aging period of one to three months.
Tasting Notes
Young squares are soft and slightly chalky, becoming increasingly runny and almost scoopable with age. The indulgent creamy richness of Foxglove's paste is balanced with meaty, grassy, and pungent notes from its orange washed rind.
Pairings
Pair Foxglove with a porter or a maibock.
