BROOTEN — A Brooten farmstead cheese company won their first national award over the weekend.
Redhead Creamery’s North Fork Whiskey Washed Munster cheese took first place in the Cheese category at the 2021 Good Food Awards on Friday.
Redhead Creamery was one of 24 cheesemakers up for the award. The cheese previously won first place in 2018 and third place in 2019 at the Minnesota State Fair cheese and butter competition in the artisan category.
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Redhead Creamery earned its first American Cheese Society award medal at the society’s 2019 competition in Richmond, Virgina, for a cheese that was born of a miraculous (and delicious) mistake. …
As award-winning cheeses such as Margie Cheddar and North Fork Whiskey Washed Munster are produced, only about 10% of the milk actually becomes cheese. The rest is whey, a yellowish liquid that can be further broken down into protein — which can be fed to cows or sold commercially for humans — and sugar. …
Minnesota dairy farmer and cheesemaker, Alise Sjostrom, is featured in Discover Education, a program designed to bring dairy farming into classrooms across the nation. Sjostrom is part of a “Farmer Spotlight” lesson plan during which students learn more about her family’s sustainability practices on the dairy farm, their commitment to animal care and how her passion for cheese-making led to her running the farm’s onsite creamery, Redhead Creamery. …
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