MouCo PepBert

$ 6.49
Let's face it—you've been pronouncing "camembert" with a T at the end all along. Now it's time to embrace it. MouCo is proud to announce our newest cheese, MouCo PepBert™, which slant-rhymes with "pepper'd," but we won't be offended if you call it whatever you like.

We've taken our flagship cheese, the camembert, and added a generous helping of whole, green peppercorns to the mix. The results are unexpected, exciting, delicious. The cheesemaking process softens the peppercorns, many of which are to be found in each bite. "Spicy" might be an overstatement, but not a big one. The peppers add a complexity to the cheese not otherwise found—it's perfect on a cracker all by itself, but especially wonderful melted atop a burger or sprinkled in your favorite mixed-green salad. Perfect for cheese-lovers, of course, but pepper snobs (we know you're out there) will find much to love here as well.

The PepBert follows the introduction of our now-second-newest cheese, the award-winning Ashley. Think of Bert as Ashley's little brother: impetuous, a bit goofy, ornery. If Ashley and Bert are on a road trip together, the PepBert is the one in the back, poking Ashley when mom's not looking. As PepBert ages, though, the character complicates, matures: the spiciness of the peppers gives way to some of the camembert's natural tanginess, and the two notes work in harmony together.

MouCo PepBert: Flavors and Aging Information

As PepBert ages the character complicates, matures: the spiciness of the peppers gives way to some of the camembert's natural tanginess, and the two notes work in harmony together.


MouCo PepBert: General Cheese and Nutritional Information

Cheese Type: A soft ripened cheese
Milk Type: Pasteurized Cow's Milk

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Mouco Cheese Company

MouCo Cheese Company was incorporated in July of 2000, and since then, we've been churning out wheels of cheese as fast as the Front Range can gobble them up. But to really understand our company history, we have to take you back a little further in time. It starts, like so many good stories start, as a love story.

Birgit Halbreiter grew up in Memmingen, Germany, a small town in Bavaria where she trained and worked for one of the world's largest soft-ripened cheese manufacturers, Käserei Champignon. After leaving Germany, Birgit eventually came to work through Molson Breweries, as QA Manager and member of the board of directors for New Belgium Brewing Company, one of the nation's fastest-growing brewing companies. Here, Birgit met Robert Poland, who was working as New Belgium's fermentation manager.

Soon, the pair began home cheese-making with the help of Birgit's father, Franz Halbreiter, a master cheese-maker living in Germany. Currently, Franz acts as a consultant for MouCo cheese and used to spend about one month per year in Fort Collins, working with Robert on quality, sanitation, and product development.

After spending some time home cheese-making, it was obvious to Birgit and Robert that they had the quality and consistency for a premium brand line of cheese. They opened MouCo's artisan cheesery in 2001 and made their first sale shortly afterward to Beaver's Market in Fort Collins.

For the first nine years, Birgit and Robert focused on the quality production of MouCo Camembert, a buttery traditional-style soft-ripened cheese. Over the last several years, MouCo has introduced four additional varieties of cheese, all with their own distinctive flavor profiles.
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