***Today’s Stinky Cheese Tuesday was sponsored by the entire McCormick IT Department***

“Kristi?  Do we have any hydrochloric acid?”

“Why?”

“I might need to burn a taste off of my tongue.”

That’s right folks, today’s Stinky Cheese Tuesday involves a soft ripened cheese like Brie, and I didn’t die from it.  Starting at the far left, we have Saint Angel, a smoked gouda and a chipotlé cheddar.

Believe it or not, I could find absolutely no information about the Country Connection Chipotlé Cheddar cheese.  The label says that it is made in Southern Wisconsin and distributed by Country Connection LLC, Chicago IL, but I could find nothing about them in my searches this morning.  It is, however, a very good cheese.  Amazingly enough, it has no heat whatsoever, but it does have a very pronounced chipotlé flavor.  The cheese is fairly mild as well which makes for a mellow experience in contrast to many of the other pepper cheeses out there.

The Maple Leaf Naturally Smoked Geliefde Gouda is quite the smoky cheese!  As a gouda, it is quite passable.  It doesn’t have any bite to it, but has a very cheesy flavor to it.  The smoke is a bit overpowering and off putting for me, but it has gotten a lot of compliments today.

Saint Angel is a French cheese that actually surprised me.  It has a bit of that brie kick on the back end, but more like a salty, buttery camembert than anything else.  I won’t go so far as to say that I liked it, but it didn’t make me want to guzzle caustic substances to evict the flavor from my mouth, either.  All in all, it wasn’t a bad experience.

Next week will be the first Stinky Cheese Tuesday provided entirely by someone besides me!  Jeff from the Doctorate Department will be taking us on a cheesy tour of Northern Europe, and I can’t wait!