Cheese Championship Rehearsal at Oppegaard Meadery

Street Cheese co-owner Courtney is traveling to New York in early March to compete in Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters. In 2023, she won that competition, which gave her a spot on Team USA—traveling to France in September 2023 for the world cheesemonger championships (Le Concours Mondial du Meilleur Fromager). Courtney placed 7th in that contest out of 16 cheesemongers from 13 countries. In 2025, she wants another shot at winning gold in both biennial competitions.

On Tuesday, January 21, Courtney will come to the mead hall to practice the five timed food service rounds for the Masters Competition. That’s where you come in: there is a lot of cheese involved in these rounds, and we need someone to help eat it all.

While anyone can come and watch the five rounds unfold, ticket-holders will have access to eat as much of the prepared cheeses as possible. Courtney will be onsite from 2:00-6:00 p.m. creating:

• a cheese plate for 1-2 people, using 4 cheeses
• a cheese-focused perfect bite using Parmigiano Reggiano
• a restaurant-style cheese dish using Stilton
• a large-scale decorative display following the theme, “Shades of Color”
• and a cheese “sculpture.”

Starting at 6 p.m., Street Cheese co-owner Tailor will begin serving cheese to the ticket-holders while Courtney finishes the final rounds. Once the clock rounds out, we will all take some pictures to record how nice everything looks, and then the ticket-holders will get to descend upon the displays, eating every last crumb of cheese.

So let’s help our reigning cheese champion retain her national title and go back to France for some unfinished business (that is, winning world-wide gold).

What exactly does your ticket get you?

A whole bunch of really special Cheese. We can’t let all this cheese for this massive display go to waste. Expect a lot more Cheese than you normally get for our Mead and Cheese Pairing nights. Oh, and of course Jon Oppegaard will be pouring glasses of Mead for you to wash all those exotic and awesome Cheeses down with!!

Feel free to show up before 6pm to catch a cool glimpse of a Cheese Master doing her thing but the official Cheese Eating portion of the day begins at 6pm!!

21+ only

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