The Cheese: Rogue Crater Lake

[Pigging by Wilfrid:  July 25, 2012}]

A big hunk of blue from the cold cabinet at Alphabet City Beer Co.  This was the Crater Lake Blue, one of a number of blues created by Oregon's Rogue River Creamery.

Raw cow's milk, and a multiple award winne.

This is a big, buttery blue -- the best I can say is that it has the light texture of a Bleu D'Auvergne, matched with the pungent mustiness of Stilton.  Well, it's a blue cheese, what do you want?

Just back from the store, it was sweating it up.  This hasn't been good cheese weather.

I like to match the fruitiness of a big cheese like this with a full-bodied red, but of course you eat with chilled white, beer, cider, or any fortified wine.  It's very forgiving.