SPRING IS AROUND THE CORNER…and so is our opening! NOW MAY 19th : Newsletter: Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co.

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2008 Volume 2

SPRING IS AROUND THE CORNER…and so is our opening! NOW MAY 19th

LH: Steph, Todd and Our Vats; RH: Cave Corridor

Thank goodness! It looks like days are finally getting warmer. Spring is on the way and in step, so is the opening of our facility! We can hardly wait! Two weeks ago, the vats were brought in. And this week the cave tops are being buried. Equipment is being delivered and installed at fast pace. Based on progress to date, we expect that the Fifth Town team can move into the dairy by the end of April. We anticipate making our first cheese in our own dairy week of May 12th. And our on site retail store will officially open to the public May 19th. Our grand opening is being planned for June 29th. Watch for more announcements on this event.

Partnering with Black River Cheese Company!

If contemporary indy music stars can share the stage with classically trained symphony orchestras and end up mutually inspired and creatively re-newed, surely an artisan cheese maker and 130 year old cheddar maker can experience the same!

In early 2008, we partnered up with our contemporaries over at Black River Cheese Company and have begun making some of our fresh cheese varieties in their facility using our own little 400 litre vat.

(Photo: Petra Cooper (FT), Todd Burley (FT), Bill McEndree (BRC), Jonathan Aulthouse (BRC) and Stephanie Diamant (FT).

During our first cheese make, we made our original Bagel Chevre (a creamy, spreadable goat cheese which is great on bagels, pitas, and wraps), our Dill Weed & Lemon Bagel Chevre (great with bagels and smoked salmon!) and launched our Maple Chevre (Chevre with local maple syrup) just in time for Maplefest next weekend! It has been terrific working with Black River Cheese staff. They have generously taken us under wing.

If you are looking for FT cheese, note that quantities are very limited right now and only available at Black River Cheese Company (Milford), Pinch Gourmet (Picton) and through Provincial Fine Foods (Toronto) at this time.

If you are interested in carrying our cheese in your store, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)to request a retail/wholesale application form.

NEW ADDITIONS TO FIFTH TOWN TEAM

Fifth Town is pleased to announce that John McKinnon and Bonnie LeJoie have joined the full time staff team. John, an award winning professional public art/sculpture artist, recently moved to Cherry Valley with his wife, Lily. He will be serving as our Customer Service & Retail Supervisor. Bonnie is mother of not one, not two, but three teenage girls (this experience will come in handy!!) and recently completed a business administration diploma from Loyalist College. Bonnie will be serving as our Office Manager. You will hear more from them in the future!

OUR FIRST CHEESE RELEASE!

We made our first batch of commercially available cheese at Black River on March 21st. We picked up 320 litres of delicious, fresh goat milk from Capricorn View Farm and spent the next two days making over 200 tubs of Bagel Chevre and 67 handrolled Chevre logs! We were very pleased with the end result. The flavour was fresh and slightly tangy. The texture was light and creamy. Still! We were nervous! Sure. We thought it was terrific. But what would others think!

So, we started to sample the finished product. We were thrilled with the response! Even the "But I don't like goat cheese" person liked the cheese. Pinch Gourmet sold out of their inventory twice in one weekend! With such welcome encouragement from our inaugural tasters, we are now truly jazzed!

More cheese to come soon

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