Fat Bottom Girl

Sheep Milk
approx. 2 lbs each • aged 2 to 3 months • raw milk • washed rind
Fat Bottom Girl handmade sheep cheese by Bleating Heart
Availability: 
April through December, in limited quantities, until sold out

***THIS CHEESE IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT***

  • DOUBLE GOLD WINNER, SONOMA COUNTY HARVEST FAIR 2011

Created in 2009, each wheel of "Fat Bottom Girl" cheese is totally hand crafted in the north Bay Area of California. This is farmstead cheese, not factory cheese, and no two wheels appear exactly alike. The cheese is made with the raw milk from a small flock of sheep who are never crammed into a barn or feedlot or fed silage. Made only in small batches, Fat Bottom Girl is approachable and appealing to both cheese geeks & novices alike. The rustic orangish rind is achieved by careful hand-rubbing with a special wash solution during the 2 to 3 month aging period. The cheese has a firm ivory paste with a toothsome bite and a touch of salt, conveying the subtle nutty & buttery goodness of sheep milk. Fat Bottom Girl is amazingly addictive when paired with pepper jams. Enjoy this cheese with a light fruity California red such as petit syrah & pinot noir, or light farmhouse-style ales such as biere de garde & saison or a nice lager. This cheese is quite delicious with Moonlight Brewery's Death & Taxes black lager. Better yet, come up with your own fantastic pairing and let me know about it! I encourage everyone to always keep an open mind and palate. The cheese's unique whimsical shape began as an accident when I was helping out at my friend Marcia Barinaga's dairy and leased me her creamery to make my own cheese. I had taken some cheeses out of their forms to be flipped, but then had to run out to get ready for the afternoon milking. When I returned to the creamery, I saw the cheeses had flattened a bit under their own weight and were starting to get an asymmetrical shape with a fat bottom. It was a mistake, but it made me laugh. I quickly decided that I actually liked this funny look and continued to develop the process, coming up with the correct timing to achieve the desired fat bottom shape. I found myself frequently referring to these yet-to-be-named cheeses as my "fat bottomed girls," which is a song by Queen that had come up on my iPod while working in the creamery. The name stuck.

  • 100% handcrafted
  • 100% sheep milk
  • 100% unpasteurized
  • 100% delicious

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from beginning to end, this is how they evolve over 2 to 3 months......
from beginning to end, this is how they evolve over 2 to 3 months......
Fat Bottom Girl
Fat Bottom Girl