This entry to the cheese blog is a Wisconsin made blue from local cheesemaking all-star Roth Käse. This cheese was so tempting I even overlooked the heinous pun in its name, which serves to illustrate the limits of my own personal integrity nicely.

Who needs integrity though, when you have a great Wisconsin cheese to try?

Biographical Information:
Roth Käse Moody Blue
Obtained from: Madison Whole Foods (University Avenue)
Price: $7.99/lb

Bad jokes aside, this is quite the cheese for 8 bucks a pound. As you would expect from a blue, it’s a crumbly cheese with a lot of liquid, very rich, slightly sour and possessing that distinctive ‘bleu’ flavor, along with the moldy filaments of blue stretching throughout the cheesy mass.

The Moody Blue is a bit different from your standard high quality blue cheese, however. It has an extra sort of buttermilky creaminess to the taste, which stands out when you first try the cheese. This buttermilk flavor then fades into the more expected blue qualities on your tongue, so it’s almost like getting two delicious cheeses in one convenient package.

In addition to a nice variation on the blue flavor, the Moody Blue has a very nice, smooth and creamy blue texture, neither too runny nor too dry. With blue cheese, even the really good ones, eating the cheese is often kind of a mess, with a lot of excess liquid sloshing around; that’s not the case here, and it’s a pleasant surprise.

In terms of serving this cheese, the Moody Blue goes very well with a vegetable plate, or added to an alfredo sauce for a little bit of a kick. At some point I might add a little to some macaroni and cheese… hmm, macaroni and blue cheese, aghghghg….

In conclusion, the HCT Cheese Blog can heartily recommend this one for all your affordable high-end Blue Cheese needs.

Final Scores:
Me: A
The Roomie: A-