Made by Charles Martell at Laurel Farm, Dymock, Gloucestershire

Washed Rind Cows Milk Cheese

Vegetable Rennet

Pasteurised Cows Milk

Stinking Bishop is washed on its rind with perry (pear wine) and a salt water mixture. The combination encourages the orange Brevibacterium linens to grow and these are the organisms responsible for its pungent aroma. Although, this cheese is unrestrainedly runny, especially with a bit of age and encouragement, it has a much milder flavour than its smell (or its name) suggests. According to Charles Martell, the cheesemaker, it gets its name from a Gloucestershire variety of pear which, in its turn, was named after a rather unpopular Farmer Bishop who grew it.