Maja Binder, who was born in Germany, makes her cheese on the Dingle Peninsula buying about 20 cows' worth of milk from a farmer about seven minutes away. Her milk is not refrigerated as it is made into cheese within 60 minutes of milking. Kilcummin's flavours range from sweetly lactic when young to yeasty, animally, leathery and spicy as it ages. Its rind is a dark brownish orange and quite dry to touch making the matured cheese look almost like a wooden board.
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