What the sources record about each of these so far.
Beemster (polder Gouda)Beemster polder, North Holland, Netherlands
Also called Beemster kaas, Beemster cheese.
Beemster is a Gouda-type cow-milk cheese made by the CONO cooperative from the milk of cows grazing the sea-clay Beemster polder in North Holland. It follows the Gouda washed-curd method, with the curd stirred by hand and the cheeses ripened under changing temperature and humidity. No source found gives its own times or temperatures.
- Milk
- Cow milk from cows grazing on sea-clay soil (outline only)
- Method
- Gouda method; curd stirred by hand; ripened under changing temperature and humidity (outline only)
- Scale
- About 475 member farmers and about 30,000 tonnes of Beemster a year (outline only)
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Bruder BasilGermany, Bavaria
Bruder Basil is a branded Bavarian smoked cheese, now sold as Basils Original Rauchkäse by the Bergader dairy. It is a semi-soft cheese of pasteurised cow milk, smoked until the rind turns brown. The maker publishes no recipe, so the steps of the base cheese and the smoking are not known.
- Milk
- Pasteurised cow milk
- Smoke
- Smoked over birch and spruce wood, giving a brown rind
- Fat
- 25.5 % fat as sold (cheese.com listing)
- Ripening
- Not published
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
CooleaCork
Irish Gouda
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- 6–24 mo
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Friese Nagelkaas PDOFriesland
cloves + cumin
- Milk
- cow milk, skim
- Ripening
- ≥6 mo
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Gammel KnasDenmark
Gammel Knas is an Arla Unika cheese from the Nr. Vium dairy in Denmark, which Arla calls an aged Havarti. It ripens for more than two years, long enough to form crunchy protein crystals and a sweet, sour and savoury taste. Arla does not publish its make.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- more than 24 months
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Kalimpong cheeseIndia, West Bengal
Also called Kalimpong Cheese, Kalimpong cheese, Homes Cheese (the Dr Graham's Homes version).
Kalimpong cheese is a European-style cow cheese, often called Edam-like, that Swiss Jesuit missionaries brought to the eastern Himalaya. Father André Butty's Swiss Welfare Dairy made it from about 1945; today a small family workshop at Gitabling and the Dr Graham's Homes dairy keep it going. Its recipe, times and temperatures have not been published.
- Milk
- Cow milk
- Type
- European-style hard cheese, described in a travel guide as Edam-like
- Size
- Wikipedia gives 1 kg and 12 kg wheels; not confirmed elsewhere
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Safety: No published data on its milk treatment or ripening were found.
Karaván (füstölt sajt)Hungary
Also called Karaván füstölt sajt, Karaván smoked cheese, Karavan.
Karaván is Hungary's best-known smoked cheese brand. Its classic product is a smoked processed cheese, made by melting cheese with water, skim milk powder, emulsifying salts, butter and salt, then smoked over beech logs. It is a processed product made from already fermented cheese, not a ferment of its own.
- Type
- Smoked processed cheese (Karaván Classic and Karaván sliced)
- Composition
- At least 45 % fat in dry matter; per 100 g about 27 g fat, 21 g protein and 2.9 g salt (Classic, label)
- Storage
- 0 to +10 °C (label)
- Start from ripened cheese
- Melt with emulsifying salts
- Smoke over beech30 °C
Safety: A processed cheese made from already fermented cheese and heated during melting; the label says to keep it at 0 to +10 °C.
KryddostSweden
cumin and clove
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Leidse Kaas PDOLeiden
cumin; annatto rind; keys stamp
- Milk
- cow milk, semi-skim
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
MariboDenmark
Danish semi-hard with many irregular eyes, slightly acid and very aromatic; partly salted in the vat; 45% FDM, max 43% moisture.
- Rind
- Semi-hard to hard, may be waxed; square blocks also made rindless
- Size
- Flat cylinder ~14 kg; flat square/rectangle ~30 cm side, ~10 cm high, ~9 kg or more
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cook the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen42 days
NøkkelostNorway
Also called nøkkelost, nøkkel, Norwegian key cheese, Nokkelost.
A semi-hard Norwegian cow-milk cheese with small round holes, spiced with cumin and cloves in the style of Dutch Leiden and nagelkaas cheese. The rindless type ripens about eight weeks and the rinded wheel at least three months.
- Milk
- Cow milk
- Spices
- Cumin and cloves
- Ripening
- Eight weeks (rindless) to at least three months (rinded)
- Types
- Rindless (27% fat by weight), light (16%) and rinded (17%)
- Make the curd and add the spices
- Mould and press
- Ripenat least 56 days
Safety: No safety source specific to nøkkelost was found.
NorvegiaNorway
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- 3–12 mo
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
OltermanniFinland
Oltermanni is a mild, sliceable Finnish cow-milk cheese, first made in 1980 as a 75th anniversary gift for Valio's dairy farmers and sold in shops from 1981. It was developed at the Isokyrö cooperative dairy and is now made at Valio's Haapavesi factory from local milk. Valio does not publish its make.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Size
- small cylinder (1980 gift format)
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Pepper JackUSA
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Pinzgauer BierkäseAustria, Salzburg
Lean (≤15% fat in dry matter) washed-curd red-smear cheese; name said to come from beer-soaked wrapping cloths.
- Rind
- Smooth, moist to dried yellow to red-brown smear; sometimes peppered
- Size
- 2–5 kg; wheel or rectangle
- Prepare the milk
- Cut and drain the curd
- Ripen42 days
Queso chancoChile
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Rossiysky / Poshekhonsky / Kostromskoy / SovetskyRussia
Soviet standard cheeses
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- 1–4 mo
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
SamsøDenmark
Emmental-Gouda hybrid
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
TurunmaaFinland
Also called Turunmaa, Turunmaa kermajuusto, Valio Turunmaa.
Turunmaa is a mild, semi-hard Finnish cow-milk cheese of the full-fat kermajuusto kind, which its maker calls a tilsit-type cheese. It is made from pasteurised milk with salt and a starter culture and ripens for about two months or more. No published source describes its make step by step.
- Milk
- Pasteurised cow milk
- Ripening
- 2 months or more (cheese database)
- Type
- Semi-hard, tilsit type (maker's description)
- Composition
- Fat 32 g, protein 25 g and salt 1.6 g per 100 g (current label); a cheese database gives 50 % fat (likely in dry matter)
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).
Safety: Made from pasteurised milk.
TyboArgentina
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Washed-curd cheese family (Gouda as template).