Eaton Fire Fundraiser Continues!

We’ve donated nearly $20,000 this year directly to organizations assisting those impacted by the Eaton Fires in January. To continue with our commitment to fundraising for the entire year, we are happy to partner with Gourmet Imports and Maker to Monger to contribute to those in need. 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this block of tremendous cheese, will be donated to Tree People, Wildfire Resilience Fund.

Tegal:

Almnäs Bruk is an 8,800-acre farm, founded by monks in 1225. Over the years cheese became an integral product for the estate, with Wrångebäck drawing asenron from Swedish Parliament and thekingdom’s crown princess.

Aver WWII, trends towards industrializaron made cheese producron at Almnäs less feasible. Cheese was disconrnued at Almnäs, and their milk was redirected to the commodity market in 1961. Eventually, fluid milk prices became increasingly volarle, and the familiar need for a value-added product became clear. In 2008 the original cheesemaker, Hans Srller, spearheaded the revival of cheesemaking at Almnäs, converrng the estate’s former disrllery into a farmstead dairy.

Tegel is a raw cow’s milk farmstead cheese, produced and aged 18 months at Almnäs Bruk in central Sweden. It is named for and reminiscent of the handmade bricks produced at the property during itsindustrial period. The bricks were produced from the property’s own clay and sun-dried in the fields. Many have preserved the footprints of the workman and their children.