Juliet Harbutt’s Top 20 Blues

As your Stilton stocks run low at Christmas or your customers demand something a little out of the ordinary, why not offer them some of the 90 British alternatives or maybe a lesser known blue from Europe?

Barkham Blue
Two Hoots Cheese, Berkshire (cow, vegetarian)

Bath Blue
Bath Soft Cheese, Avon (cow, organic)

Beacon Blue
Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, Lancashire (goat, vegetarian)

Beauvale
Cropwell Bishop Creamery, Nottinghamshire (cow)

Blue Whinnow
Thornby Moor Dairy, Cumbria (cow, raw)

Blumin White
Shepherd’s Purse Cheeses, Yorkshire (cow, vegetarian)

Brighton Blue
High Weald Dairy (cow, vegetarian)

Carmarthenshire Blue Goat
Camarthenshire Cheese, Sussex (cow, vegetarian)

Cote Hill Blue
Cote Hill Farm, Lincolnshire (cow, vegetarian, raw)

Devon Blue
Ticklemore Cheese, Devon (cow, vegetarian)

Fowlers Forest Blue
Fowlers Forest Dairies, West Midlands (cow, vegetarian)

Harbourne Blue
Ticklemore Cheese, Devon (goat, vegetarian)

Ludlow Blue
Ludlow Food Centre Cheese, Shropshire (cow, vegetarian)

Mrs Bell’s Blue
Shepherd’s Purse Cheeses, Yorkshire (ewe, vegetarian)

New Forest Blue
Loosehanger Cheeses, Wiltshire (cow, vegetarian)

Royal Bassett Blue
Brinkworth Dairy, Wiltshire (cow, vegetarian)

St Duthac
Highland Fine Cheeses, Ross-shire (ewe)

Stichelton
Stichelton Dairy, Nottinghamshire (cow, raw)

Strathdon Blue
Highland Fine Cheese Ltd, Ross-shire (cow, vegetarian)

Worcestershire Blue
Lightwood Cheese, Worcestershire (cow)