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Get your free copy11 July 2016, 15:20 PM
- A smoked cheese and a long aged cheese have joined the selection of cheeses handcrafted by Northern Ireland's Dart Mountain Cheese, part of Tamnagh Foods of Dungiven
The new cheeses, in line with the rest of the producer’s award-winning range, have been named to reflect the cheesemaker’s local community. Ballydonegan (smoked) and Tirkeeran (long aged) have been named after local townlands in the Sperrin mountains, where the creamery is located.
The smoky flavour of Ballydonegan is created using a technique which sees smoke being bubbled through the milk during the production process, while Tirkeeran was named after an old barony which included all the townlands from the top of the Sperrins to the River Foyle.
Kevin Hickey, cheesemaker said, “We set out to try and create something unique that reflected where we were from. We launched our first cheese, Sperrin Blue, in June 2014.” (The cow’s milk blue won gold at the 2015 Irish Food Awards in Dingle, County Kerry).
The new cheeses joins an Alpine-style cheese, an ash-coated cheese, a beer-washed cheese and the award-winning blue-veined cheese in Tamnagh Foods of Dungiven’s award-winning range.
