Cheeses From Sweden

Grevé


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Grevé is Swedish cow’s milk cheese, similar to Emmental. Its fat content is 30-45%.

Herrgårdsost


Herrgårdsost (Manorhouse cheese) is a semi-hard Swedish cheese made from cow’s milk. Made since the 1890s, it is still popular in Sweden today. The aged cheese has a mild, sweet, nutty flavor and small round holes. The cheese is usually manufactured in wheels about 40 centimetres in diameter and 12 centimetres wide, weighing around 14 [...]

Svecia


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Svecia (or Sveciaost) is a Swedish cheese. It is a semi-hard cow’s-milk cheese, with a creamy consistency, light yellow colour, small irregular holes, and a mildly acidic taste. It is produced in wax-covered cylinders weighing 12 to 15 kilograms each.The cheese is similar to other Swedish hard cheeses whose manufacturing methods date back to perhaps [...]

Brunost


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Brunost (Norwegian), mesost (Swedish), mysuostur (Icelandic) or myseost (Danish) is a brown Scandinavian whey cheese. The Norwegian name brunost means ‘brown cheese’. In North America it is referred to and sold as gjetost, which is an older spelling of geitost that is no longer frequently used elsewhere.
he two most popular varieties in Norway are Gudbrandsdalsost, [...]