Hannibal, MO — “It is turning out to be much bigger than I would have ever thought,” said Linda Coleberd, about the popularity of the cheese that is aged in Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Mo.
The cheese is produced at Heartland Creamery at Newark in Northeast Missouri. After being aged in the cave, it is returned to Heartland for packaging as Mark Twain Cave Aged Cheese and nationwide distribution.
The cave is a perfect place to age cheese, Coleberd said, because “it is absolutely perfect temperature and it is constant temperature.” The cave temperature remains at 52 degrees.
Coleberd, the owner of Mark Twain Cave, first heard about cave-aged cheese at a cave convention.
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