Sheep's milk Gouda aged twelve months, with caramel and brown butter.
Dutch aged sheep's milk Gouda, 12 months. Butterscotch, caramel, toasted hazelnut, sugary crystals. From The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills.
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Ewephoria is a Dutch Gouda-style wheel made from pasteurized sheep's milk and aged twelve months, which is where this cheese gets really interesting. Sheep's milk has more fat and more sugar than cow's milk, so when you treat it like a Gouda and let it sit for a year, you end up with something far sweeter and more concentrated than a standard aged cow Gouda.
The paste is firm and dense, pale gold, with a scatter of crunchy sugary crystals that pop as you chew. On the palate it opens with butterscotch and caramel, pulls through toasted hazelnut and brown butter in the middle, and finishes long with a quiet salty pull underneath all that sweetness. The mouthfeel stays buttery the whole way through, which is the sheep's milk doing its job.
This one wins over cow's milk drinkers and sheep's milk drinkers in equal measure, which is rare. It's a dessert cheese as much as it is a board cheese, right in the sweet spot where aged Gouda technique meets the natural richness of sheep.
Firm and dense like an aged Gouda, breaks into clean shards under the knife with little sugary tyrosine-style crystals scattered through the paste.
Big sweet-savory punch, butterscotch and caramel up front with a nutty sheep-milk depth underneath. Not funky, just concentrated.
Long caramel and toasted-nut finish that sticks around well past the swallow, with a faint salty pull at the end.
Most of the fresh-milk character has cooked off in the 12 months of aging, just a whisper of buttery richness underneath the caramel.
Toasted hazelnut and brown butter through the middle, with that signature aged-Gouda sweetness that reads almost like butterscotch candy.
A quiet earthy pull on the finish, more like roasted nuts than mushroom or barnyard.
No heat, no piquancy. This is a sweet cheese, not a sharp one.
Waxed rind
Wrapped in red wax, inedible. Trim the rind and serve the paste.
Ewephoria stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
The cheese's butterscotch and caramel notes want something with a little sweetness and some oxidative depth. Tawny Port and Oloroso Sherry mirror the caramel, while a bourbon or brown ale picks up the toasted-nut side.
Sweet stone fruit and honey lean into the caramel side of the cheese, while toasted almonds echo the nutty aged-sheep character.
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