Pinzgauer beer cheese
Pinzgauer Bierkäse is a lean semi- hard cheese from Pinzgau in the west of the Austrian state of Salzburg . It gets its name from storage in towels soaked with beer .
history
Pinzgauer beer cheese has been produced since the 17th century . It was traditionally made from skimmed milk, as the cream was processed into butter . In the 1951 International Agreement on the Use of Appellations of Origin and Names for Cheese ( Stresa Convention ), beer cheese was recognized as a typical Austrian type of cheese. It is entered in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management .
Manufacturing
The milk for Pinzgauer Bierkäse comes from cows that graze on the pastures from May to September in the high mountain region of the Hohen Tauern . The milk comes from around 1200 farmers in Pinzgau, Pongau and Kaiserwinkl in Tyrol . Only GMO-free feed is used, half of the farmers work according to organic guidelines .
For production, the milk is pasteurized , skimmed and mixed with mesophilic lactic acid bacteria . The curd is washed, barely heated and lightly pressed. The addition of goat's milk is permitted, but is not normally used with Pinzgauer beer cheese. The cheese wheels are matured in cellars for six weeks and regularly treated with red smear . The finished cheese contains 15% fat in the dry matter (8% absolute fat) with a maximum water content of 55%. The bark is smooth and covered with a yellow to red-brown smear. The greenish-yellow to ivory-colored dough is firm and supple and has a maximum pea-sized slot.
The large variety of species in the cows' feed gives the Pinzgauer beer cheese its hearty, slightly bitter to piquant taste and its typical red smear note. It is sold in loaves or blocks of 2 to 5 kg as well as in pieces or slices.
Typical dishes in which beer cheese is used are Kasnockn and Kaspressknödel . It is also a good accompaniment to beer.
Web links
- "Cheese preparation on an alpine pasture in the Pinzgau" - film by Elfriede Lies from the collection of the Federal Institute for Scientific Film (ÖWF) in the Austrian media library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Pinzgauer beer cheese . Entry no. 70 in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .