unyon: I'd love to try this. Aged cheeses are my kryptonite.

How does one go about aging a cheese?

I recently tried some aged Brick cheese.
Smelled like rotting gym socks but melted on my burger was AWESOME!
I have some 10 year old aged sharp cheddar that I save.

/YUMMY

Asa Phelps: I recently polished off an 8 year old block of white cheddar.

It was awesome.

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Dayum, 40 year old cheddar??
"It's got character".

I'll bet!

This must be akin to going down on Madonna.

is it just me or did the republicans have a real generic stage....for all the money they have, they should have had a huge stage that was more engaging. Instead it was a bad 80's rock band stage

oh crap...wrong thread....but i am from wisconsin and do love cheese

I AM FROM THIS TOWN.

Also, the oldest I've had is 15 year, and it was delicious.

even the President's Choice 5 year old Cheddar I bought has the beginning of crystals,
which i understand are fairly rare for a 5 year old cheese.

40 years i can't image what the difference would be over such time.

Cheddar?

I'm afraid we don't get much call for it around these parts.

Recently I bought some really aged, funky cheddar. I really enjoy old cheddar but this cheddar was far too old for me. It think it was old enough to be my father. I'll stick to 3 or younger.

Valiente: This must be akin to going down on Madonna.

Crunchy like corn flakes on the edges and incredibly sharp in the middle?

jonohull: I AM FROM THIS TOWN.

Also, the oldest I've had is 15 year, and it was delicious.

Same here.
Hope that the cheese shop where I got the 15 year old will pick up some this older cheese and save some for me.

i wouldn't eat anything from a shop that hasn't fully cleaned their walk-in cooler in 40 years!

I got the family some award winning cheddar from 1990 for Christmas last year. I think it was about $60/lb. Damn that was some sharp stuff, and it had some crystallizing stuff going on, giving it some crunch. I mean, this stuff was so sharp that when you bit in it bit you right back, seriously intense flavors.

Hoping to get my hands on some of this stuff. Sounds like an experience.

And that reminds me... My Vertical Epic drunkfest is coming up in a few months, over a decade in the waiting. Got 'em all, 02 thru 11. Can't wait to see what the 04 turned out like. That stuff was amazing when it came out.

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

I would cheerfully murder several of you just to get a nibble!!!!!

I would love to try some. Aged cheddar is my weakness, but I've never had anything remotely like that.

Some friends with relatives in Sheboygan head up north once a year or so. I send a couple hundred bucks with them and they bring me various meats and cheeses from the specialty shops. Haven't been to Wisconsin in over 20 years. :(

Well, it ain't gonna slice itself.

/dude
//PACKERS

Quantum Apostrophe: With this?

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40 year old scotch whisky? I wonder how much that costs and where I can get it, I haven't seen it here in Pennsylvania.

Meh, I can get the same for free from my neighbor's panties

vincent_blackshadow: how can a cheese store fail in wisconsin?!

The article doesn't actually say the store failed, just that it was closing down. The owner is 73. My guess is his kids didn't go into the family business, and no one was interested in buying the shop, and he's looking to retire. Its in a town of less than 5000 people 30 miles north of Green Bay.

Devo37: i wouldn't eat anything from a shop that hasn't fully cleaned their walk-in cooler in 40 years!

This is exactly what I was thinking. That's a very, very long time for something to be "overlooked" in a commercial refrigerator. Can the owner of this cheese shop guarantee that they haven't lost power for a day or two in the last 40 years? The cooler has never had any unexpected breakdowns in 40 years considering nobody has cleaned or inspected it in that time?

I like my cheese like my women...
no, forget it, not going there.

Over a decade ago I worked for a temp agency one summer in Sheboygan County, and I spent *one day* working at a factory where they transformed old cheese into catfish bait.

My job was to sort through the blocks of cheese coming down the conveyor belt and pull out any remaining plastic or metal securing bands before they had a chance to damage the liquifying machine.

I saw blocks of Sargento and Sartori cheeses with dates going back almost 20 years.

Although I breathed through my mouth for the entire shift and wore surgical gloves while I picked, I smelled the horrors of rotten cheese on my skin and in my hair for three days thereafter. I had to throw away my shoes due to the impossible stench.

I've smelled some horrific things in my life - month old dead sheep carcass, weeks' worth of dog crap, foreclosed home refrigerator molds, and more - and none of them holds a candle to the fetid rot I endured that day.

Amazingly, I still can manage to enjoy cheese now, but there is no way on earth I would come within 50 yards of 40-year-old cheese. Thank you, no.

I'll stick to 12 year old scotch.

eagles95: is it just me or did the republicans have a real generic stage....for all the money they have, they should have had a huge stage that was more engaging. Instead it was a bad 80's rock band stage

Republican National Convention, and "Nation's oldest cheese collection going on sale.."

Nope, your comment kinda fits here.

I'll do it...

I like my cheese how I like my women, over 40 and stinking to high heaven

Wisconsin makes cheese?

Makh: I thought you were complaining about the bouzouki player.

Oh, heaven forbid. I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!