bruny island cheese co.

via pennicott wilderness journeys. best cheese you will ever have id say. absolutely delicious, and to top it off they do great beers too!  the shop has all kinds of sauces/jams/relish/spices - all high quality. tried severalcheesesthat day and a beer, bought a 500ml bottle of their stout and a nice sized block of their cheese to snack on during the rest of my stay in hobart. i was hooked though, once i got to launceston i tracked down some in a craft beer shop and bought another 3 bottles. now 2 weeks later back from my holiday,  i have made an online order for more cheese and beer  :)

i love cheese. there i said it. cheese is more than a tasty little snack, it's almost an obsession but i digress. this place is a cute little place were you can try half a dozencheesesand a few in house beers. they also serve s good selection of cheese platters, baked brie, wood fire pizzas, cakes and slices. a great little stop!

is it a tourist trap? no
is it a foodie/cheese trap? yes if you let yourself go.
it's one of those spots where u know thecheesesare made with love and served with lots of care too. a brief but informative cheese tasting session helps one along in purchasing cheese.
now, i will start ordering cheese from here!!! been receiving the emails but never took too much notice.
the hardcheesesare my favourites and i can't wait to try the one wrapped in prosciutto.
would have rated it 5 if there were smaller portions of cheese to purchase.

took the ferry across and the views were great from get go. unfortunately got here same time as 2 tour groups so the staff were stretched thin. but great friendly service once we did get served.
the cloudy bay ipa is perfect for the cheese platter we got. and sourdough is made from wildfire so well worth trying. and thecheesesare fantastic. the 1792 was a stand out.

the home of cheese on this beautiful island. the service was great with our waitress serving us a mixture ofcheesesand talking us through them. olives, pickles and bread on the cheeseboard are incredibly good! beer tasting paddle was a bit lacking for mine, i only really liked one of them. as for the cheeses... they were all great!

worst experience here. my partner and i flew all the way down from brisbane and decided to spend 1 day on bruny island. it all just went downhill from this cheese place. we headed in at around 11am with no welcome or greetings whatsoever, but thats all good. we then proceeded on to the cheese counter to have our first look at the availablecheeses(no-one was at the counter). a staff from the back soon came up and 'introduced' thecheesesto us but she merely just stated the name (which we could obviously see or read from the flyers) and a description of whether its hard or soft (again, visible from flyers). then she hastily went away, busy with her other tasks. a while later we hoped to start by tasting some cheese, but was sternly told that there was no cheese tasting at the moment. that was it? that was all the cheese factory had to offer to us at the time after our tiring trip down since early morning. we were deeply disappointed with the extreme lack of customer service. would never recommend any of my peers.

bruny island is an island off the south-east side of tasmania, a bit further down below hobart. it is home to some of the most incredible scenery and food australia has to offer. i’ve been lucky enough to spend a year living not far from the bruny ferry, letting me pop over there whenever i want, and it has become one of my favourite places in tasmania. bruny island cheese company is a quite famous cheese maker based on bruny, known mostly for their heavy part in the gourmet farmer tv show by matthew evans . they make some truly spectacularcheesesthat are shipped out to restaurants all over australia or to customers via their website, and if you’re lucky enough to be able to visit them in their remote little cheesery, they also do the best toasted cheese sandwich i’ve had in my life (as well as pizzas and other things). view larger map

if you love cheese, there is no way that you would walk away without buying any after tasting. these were thecheesesfor sale when i went. they were all beautiful. i particularly loved the saint ( soft, white mould ) and raw milk c2 ( hard, natural rind, raw milk ). i also bought a block of otto ( fresh, wrapped in prosciutto ), designed to be baked and served gooey and hot. yum. here’s a copy of the menu (as at 26 october 2014). their names made me grin, how very cute. they have a dine-in menu on the wall. although i didn’t get to try it, but i’m sure having a baked otto here with a glass of red would be amazing!

our last stop on our day-trip to bruny island is of course the famous-for-a-reason bruny island cheese company. whether you know them due to their part in matthew evans’ gourmet farmer (where i first heard about them), from their mega popular cheese club , or just from coming across one of their ridiculously delicious cheeses, they’re an absolute must-see when visiting the island. from their retail store in the front of their building you can watch them actually make thecheesesthrough the glass walls, or peek into the aging room, while you wait for your food and go through a tasting of their offerings. they do great coffee and a decent range of foods too, including wood fired pizzas, toasties on sourdough, or the inevitable tasting platters, all made/baked/cooked right there. i didn’t get the best photos to sum it all up this trip, as we were preoccupied eating and chatting, so i’ll visit again for more photos soon and update this post. in the meantime, here’s the ones i managed to r

bruny island cheese company is an artisan cheese produce on south bruny island.  allcheesesa produced and matured using traditional techniques and local milk. cheese makes me happy! the cheese company produces cheese from cows milk, goats milk and a special, raw milk cheese.  the three main styles of cheese made at bruny island cheese are the tom, washed rindcheesesand the c2 raw milk cheese.  i had the opportunity to walk through the factory as the cheese was being turned.  turning the cheese allows the whey to drain and the cheese to compress. oh how i love cheese!! i couldn’t help taking a quick snap of the “cheese makes me happy shirts”. cheese factory maturage next we went through to where the cheese is left to mature. the aroma was amazing! there is something just beautiful about seeing all that lovely cheese lined up on the shelves. sampling the cheese from the wheels walking through the various maturation rooms i was given samples of thecheesesat va

this is a lovely place in a lovely setting and it's more than just a cheese shop as well. yes you can taste theircheeseshere - and they are very good. there's also a cafe and a bakery too. we grabbed some otto - cows milk cheese wrapped in prosciutto. this is normally meant to be baked for around 10 to 15 minutes but can also be eaten as is. we also grabbed a loaf of organic wood-fired sourdough bread with olives.

tried a few of theircheesesat the salamanca market & they were amazing! the "oen" wrapped in vine leaves was the perfect addition to our platter & went down well with a few glasses of red!