milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Vegetable Ash
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
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milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Vegetable Ash
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-6 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith
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Karst was developed in late 2021 in collaboration with Neal's Yard Dairy.
Background
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FAQs
As a general rule of thumb, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal. If you are buying cheese to serve over a couple of days or as part of a buffet, it is advisable to buy a few larger pieces. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams. If you are at all unsure please give us a call for some advice.
The best option is to keep your cheese wrapped in its paper within a box in the fridge. This will prevent the cheese from drying out and absorbing other flavours. Your cheese will arrive wrapped in waxed cheese paper, which achieves the best possible balance between maintaining humidity around the cheese and allowing it to breathe. We are happy to provide some free extra cheese paper, just search for "cheese paper" and add it to your basket. We don't recommend cling film or foil as it can cause the cheese to sweat which will negatively affect the flavour.
Karst
Karst is delicate and creamy, with fresh and lemony notes
Karst was developed in late 2021 in collaboration with Neal's Yard Dairy.
milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Vegetable Ash
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-6 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith
background
Karst is produced by former-schoolteacher-turned-cheesemaker Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith and her small team in the town of Inagh just south of The Burren in County Clare. Made with goat's milk from the farm's herd of Saanen and Toggenburg goats, it is a fairly loose textured, mild and creamy.
our work with this cheese
We have enjoyed selling St Tola for many years but the large format makes it difficult for some people to handle. In response to this, we proposed the development of a new smaller format cheese that shared many of the other characteristics of St Tola. Our initial taste trials involved versions with and without ash. Our sales and maturation teams preferred the appearance and flavour of the ashed versions. Karst is named after the unique limestone formations typical of The Burren. We continue to provide feedback on this cheese, a process helped by the farm's practice of keeping samples back from each batch they send us to taste alongside us.