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Good Afternoon,

Back at it again with a Permies Poll, this time CHEESE edition.



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I am a fan of all sorts of goat cheeses. It just has a certain kind of tang... It is really good!
 
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I REALLY struggled with goat cheese and goat milk, for a long time - but, I kept trying. Then, I found a farm in Southern Indiana (USA) that sold all kinds of goat milk products - gelatos, yogurts, cheeses, chocolate milk, bottle goat milk, lotions, soaps - and I loved almost everything they sold, minus only 1 or 2 of the cheeses. I asked what made their products so sweet, when every other goat milk product I'd ever had tasted like a rank, old, buck in rut. They laughed, and shared their 'secrets': 1. keep everything so cold that it's barely shy of freezing - at all times. Also: 1. Keep everything ULTRA clean. Also: 1. Get those bucks as far away from the does as possible (minimum 200yds), at least a month before kidding time.

The only thing they failed to share, and I'm sure it was unintentional, was the feed. My goats milk is so sweet and amazing, but has the tiniest bitter note in the after taste. So, I've been digging around, asking other goatie folks, and the only thing I haven't tried is changing the feed, so I'll be doing that, this summer. I'm switching to alfalfa in the little bin the does eat from, while I'm milking. Not more than that(&that's all the feed they get, besides horse-quality hay & good forage). ~crossing my fingers~
 
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My favourite is simply whatever is being produced on the homestead - the fresher the milk, the better the cheese.
 
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We have to choose just ONE favorite???  🤣  I would sure love to try reindeer - you aren't just joshing about that - it's really a thing??
 
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Kara Ann wrote:We have to choose just ONE favorite???  🤣  I would sure love to try reindeer - you aren't just joshing about that - it's really a thing??



While there are no commercial reindeer dairies due to their limited milk production, there are indigenous peoples who milk and make dairy products from reindeer.



So cool!

 
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I  have not had the opportunity to taste cheese made by any milk other than from cows.

I have made yogurt and the cheese from yogurt with cows milk.

Thanks for enlightening my world.  
 
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