When Door Artisan Cheese Co. owner Mike Brennenstuhl called cheesemaker Darrell Demeter last week to tell him he won a world championship for his Top Hat Cheddar, a cave-aged English-style cheddar in the Natural Rinded Cheddar category, Darrell asked, “What do I do now?”
“Embrace the moment,” Brennenstuhl said.
“It’s a creative effort with our whole team,” he said, five days after his one-year-old startup artisan cheese factory in Egg Harbor won the gold at the World Cheese Championship held in Madison March 6-8. “This isn’t the first world championship I’ve been involved with, so my encouragement to my team is that even though it’s a joint effort, nobody can take away the fact that Darrell Demeter is a world champion in caved-aged cheddar cheese. Embrace the moment. You may never get a world championship again.”
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