24-02-2025
Here's a chance to sample award-winning cheese as U.S. championship returns to Resch Expo
ASHWAUBENON – Before the NFL draft comes to Green Bay, the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest will make an appearance.
The every-other-year contest, held March 4-5 at the Resch Expo, will have 2,414 entries in 117 classes from 31 states. Categories include cheese, butter, cultured products and dry dairy ingredients.
Preliminary judging, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, will be free and open to the public. Even better than the judging are samples of competing and champion cheeses. It's a chance to taste the best of familiar cheeses or try something unique.
Championship judging on March 6 is closed to the public, but announcement of winners will be livestreamed at 2 p.m. at
The event is hosted by by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, which has its headquarters in Madison.
At least 38 dairy experts, many of them cheese championship veterans, will evaluate entries on attributes such as flavor, body, texture, salt, color, finish, packaging, and more.
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Twenty-two northeastern Wisconsin producers submitted entries to the contest.
An aged Gouda, called Europa, made by Arethusa Farm Dairy in Bantam, Connecticut, was the 2023 United States Champion Cheese.
At the World Championship Cheese Contest in 2024, a Hornbacker cheese made by Michael Spycher of Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus in Bern, Switzerland, was named the best cheese. The world championship is held every other year in Madison.
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This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: U.S. Championship Cheese Contest comes to Green Bay every other year
