Allgäuer Emmentaler ca. 300g (Herzstücke)

ÖMA Allgäuer Emmentaler with a protected designation of origin is a mild, hard cheese made from fresh hay milk from organic dairy farmers. It is matured in foil for at least 3 months and is an inexpensive alternative to rind-matured Emmentaler. The Allgäu all-rounder is also available for the self-service shelf as a 200g portion and in slices in the resealable freshness box, and as a regionally significant and traditional Allgäu product, it bears the 'protected designation of origin' seal. Among other things, the milk must come from the region and the cheese must be produced and matured there. Allgäuer Emmentaler may also only be made from raw milk and the cows must not be fed silage or other fermented feed. These feeding regulations only apply to Allgäuer Emmentaler PDO. They do not apply to other Emmentaler, as the milk may be heated before processing. For interested customers and cheese lovers, there is background information and stories about the cheese, the farmers and the dairy. Our ÖMA cheese dairy Leupolz, which was founded in 1960 as the cooperative 'Emmentaler Käserei Leupolz', is located in the middle of the Allgäu hills. Due to the increasing number of organic dairy farmers in the region, a second, separate production line was set up in 1986, on which only Demeter products are produced to this day. Master cheesemaker Pit Pfohl and his employees process 13,000 liters of fresh Demeter milk into butter, semi-hard and hard cheese every day. The most popular of these are the hard cheese classics Allgäuer Emmentaler and Allgäuer Bergkäse - both with a protected designation of origin (PDO). The 22 Demeter farmers who supply the cheeses manage their farms using biodynamic farming methods. This is characterized by diversity in cultivation and animal husbandry, the development of the farm as an individual, living organism, working to the rhythm of natural cycles and cosmic influences and the targeted use of biodynamic preparations. The horned dairy cows graze on the herb-rich Allgäu meadows in summer, while in winter they are fed exclusively dried hay and the farm's own cereal meal, and some local Bioland farmers now also supply their hay milk to the cheese dairy, which has made it possible to produce the traditional Allgäuer Emmentaler PDO - which is also matured in foil - in Bioland quality.