Local Ale & Cheese Box

A gently spiced, fruity chutney, with a good slug of Old Spot Real Ale, traditionally brewed in Gloucestershire. Perfect with strong mature cheeses.

A soft, bloomy-rinded cheese with a pale yellow, buttery paste.  More delicate than a French Brie and less mushroomy and vegetably, the sweet grassy pastures, sown with clover, on which the cows graze reflected in the taste of the cheese. Made at Kirkham farm, near Lower Slaughter, where the Weavers have been farming organically for three generations. Every morning the milk travels the five meters from the milking shed to the creamery and is pasteurised but not standardised, so it retains its unique and variable character. Simon Weaver has won a number of prestigious awards for his cheese.

Baron Robert Pouget has made a superb blue cheese in the style of the cheeses of his native France.

A medium strength soft blue with a creamy texture. Rich, aromatic with a hint of dark chocolate and white wine with a distinct tarragon flavour towards the end.

Great with Pecorino and Parmesan, but we think they are a good cracker for all cheeses.

Or great on their own.

The Worcestershire Hop is a fantastically tangy and tasty cheddar-style cheese. Rolled in roasted and toasted Hops on maturation, it contrasts its smooth and creamy texture with a wonderful taste of umami, tangy, moreish and farmhouse flavours.

It is rather unsurprisingly a little beer-ish in taste, and the wonderful fiery and tangy flavour lasts on the palate for a long time.