milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Bethesda, Gwynedd
milk source
Bought-in
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milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Bethesda, Gwynedd
milk source
Bought-in
season
All year
average age
2 Weeks
cheesemakers
Bradley & Beth Cunningham
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Our Work
Yr Afr is a new cheese, arriving at our maturation arches for the first time in May 2024. We are providing feedback with every batch.
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.
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Yr Afr
Yr Afr is a raw goat's milk cheese with a creamy, savoury paste and pale, mushroomy rind
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Yr Afr means ''the goat'' in Welsh. The name is a play on words, winking at both the milk's origin and the acronym, ''greatest of all time.''
milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Bethesda, Gwynedd
milk source
Bought-in
season
All year
average age
2 Weeks
cheesemakers
Bradley & Beth Cunningham
background
Husband and wife team Bradley and Beth Cunningham began making cheese with frozen goat's milk at their home in Lancashire. Their cheesemaking soon outgrew this set-up. After moving to North Wales, they found a local herd to supply fresh, raw goat's milk. They also found a local dairy where they could work. (This happens to be the same place where Carrie Rimes of Cosyn Cymru makes Brefu Bach.) The result is Yr Afr. One of our newest cheeses, we're watching — and tasting — as it develops.
our work with this cheese
Yr Afr is a new cheese, arriving at our maturation arches for the first time in May 2024. We are providing feedback with every batch.