milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
mik treatment
Pasteurised
location
Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
milk source
Farmers cooperative
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milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
mik treatment
Pasteurised
location
Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
milk source
Farmers cooperative
season
All year
cheesemakers
Billy Kevan
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Shropshire Blue is made by Billy Kevan and his team in Nottinghamshire. Shropshire Blue was invented by a Cheshire cheese grader called Dennis Biggins in the 1930s.
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Shropshire Blue
A creamy, savoury pasteurised cow's milk cheese with a slight yeasty bite from the blue veining


Shropshire Blue is made by Billy Kevan and his team in Nottinghamshire. Shropshire Blue was invented by a Cheshire cheese grader called Dennis Biggins in the 1930s.
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
mik treatment
Pasteurised
location
Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire
milk source
Farmers cooperative
season
All year
cheesemakers
Billy Kevan
our work with this cheese
We visit Billy Kevan many times a year. He makes a special recipe of Shropshire Blue for us. Effectively it is Stilton with annatto colouring to make it orange. The annatto has a very mildly spicy flavour and is considered to soften the texture a little but its effects on the flavour are not very strong. The Neal's Yard Dairy Shropshire Blue uses animal rennet and is pierced only a few times resulting in more complex flavours and less intense blueing than in Shropshire Blue from other dairies.