Good morning Cheese Lovers!Good Food Award Finalists!We previewed it last week, but wow-wow-wow. We are in the running for the 2021 Good Food awards, being named Finalists this week for North Fork Whiskey Washed Munster! We received the judging sheets back, and let's just say there was not much left to desire according to their accolades, so fingers crossed that we can pull out a win. https://goodfoodfdn.org/awards/finalists/About 30 cheeses from around the country were named Good Food Finalists. Last year, 16 were named winners. Normally, this is bestowed at a big ado in San Francisco. With the pandemic, a virtual...

Good morning Cheese Lovers!It’s a big week, huge week. And we aren’t even talking about the Presidential Election, Vikings and Gophers wins, or the upcoming Veterans Day – and we’ll say on the latter, Veterans Day is almost missed in much of the country; but when we lived in Vermont it is noticed and many businesses are closed in observation. Thank you to all those who’ve served, including our own family members.No, we aren’t talking about all that – we’re talking the calm before the storm. We expect to run low on certain items so please order soon so we...

Hello Cheese Lovers,We are getting close. Yes, we know, we know, the holidays are several weeks away. But here, it’s fewer than 11 days. We long-ago hit the cutoff for many of our cheeses, like St. Anthony (2 to 7 months), Lucky Linda (6 to 12 months) and Margie (3 months to 24 months) – which all take months to years to add to their aging process. But November 11 will be the final day we can make young munster or Brie for Thanksgiving delivery.But it is most likely that any cheese purchased (minus Ridiculously Good Cheese Curds) was made...

Happy Sunday, Cheese Lovers!Topics contained herein:Best Cheese in MN https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/preview-content-html?id=4823046#BestCheeseQuestion of the week: How's the dairy economy? (https://us8.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/preview-content-html?id=4823046#QOTW)BEST CHEESE IN MN - according to MN Monthly readers! (https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/food-drink/best-of-mn-2020-readers-choice/)We meant to write this newsletter Friday morning, and then it was announced that we were named MINNESOTA’s BEST CHEESE by Minnesota Monthly Readers. WOW WOW WOW! What an honor! We’ve been named top-of-class, best artisan cheese in Minnesota (twice), and a number of second through tenth place finishes in national competitions in the Cheddar, Brie, American Originals, and other categories. But, we’re astonished that in our 6th year making cheese (continually since...

Happy Cold Snap, Minnesota Cheese Lovers:Brrrr… the temperature really took a turn downward and we still are getting cheese made and flipped while the cows are milked, bed and fed every single day of the year. For more on that, read our question of the week below.What’s new in cheese and meat? – MARGIE IS BACKIf you’ve been looking for our Cave-Aged Margie Cheddar, she’s back. And we really like this batch. Our hamburger patties and ground beef are still tasting excellent made for your winter and holiday dishes. Stock up now, we don’t have another harvest planned at our...

Hello Cheese Lovers! We’re going to have a brief newsletter today as there’s much to do in a shortened [school] week.Question of the week: Where does the other 90% of your milk go?Answer: What a great question. The answer is actually quite simple. But for those confused - about 7 to 10% of our Jer-Lindy Farms LLC milk goes to Redhead Creamery LLC. In October we will make about 11% of it into cheese as we prepare for the holiday season. Lucas can go into a long monologue on milk pricing and classification systems, but we won’t do that today.The...

Hello Cheese Lovers!We took a break from the newsletter last week with no route. We’ve shifted to making cheese consistently three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) and are still finishing up our building projects. Here's what's happening at Redhead Creamery with our East Metro/Rochester Route next Wednesday (order by Tuesday at 7 a.m.) RHC on RFD-TVIn partnership with Holstein Association USA’s Holstein America series, we were featured on RFD-TV last week for a six-minute segment about our operations and involvement with the Holstein breed. Take a watch, here:https://youtu.be/CyPoDKXfeAYBlack Lives Matter Brie – Only 3 left!You did it! We sold...

Happy Monday Morning!First, a hearty thank you to those who gave to Ps and Qs Etiquette separately or through us as we raise money for the organization through our Black Lives Matter Brie. As you can imagine, we received overwhelmingly positive comments, along with a few that wanted to start a conversation with us. We still have a few available but will definitely run out this this week.Projects: Our new retaining wallTo make room for our storage shed and cooler, and improve our van parking so we don't get stuck in the mud, we needed to manipulate our rock retaining...

We’ve acquired the shell of our new refrigerator, cured the concrete of our new storage area and snugly stuck our delivery van in the mud on our newly “graveled” ramp (a quick 5:20 a.m. skid-steer-loader pull got us on our way) in this past week. These projects were all made possible with support by you, as well as grants from the county, state and federal government in midst of the pandemic. We are fortunate that they have targeted storage for food producers as a top priority.This has been an interesting year to say the least, but commercial and government support...

Hi Cheese Lovers!What’s new this week:Our first QUESTION OF THE WEEK, below.Construction: Upon learning of a successful grant application, we poured concrete to make room for a storage shed and outdoor refrigerated cooler. This will give us the space to manage other Minnesota cheeses and shipments, and give our employees some room to breathe when packaging up your order. Currently, we make very efficient (and claustrophobic) use of our hallway for packaging and shipping preparation, and with only one refrigerator we often have it filled to the brim with cheese. This is a good thing, but it is time to...