Cheeses, They’re Just Like Us! The wheels at Crown Finish Caves

November 24, 2021 Eric Lach, The New Yorker

A lot of people think that they want to work in a cheese cave,” Caroline Hesse, the head of sales at Crown Finish Caves, a cheese-aging company in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, said, standing by a door marked “Employees Only.” “Then, when they realize that you’re in a tunnel that’s thirty feet underground for eight hours a day, a lot of them are, like, ‘Oh, maybe not.’ ” Hesse opened the door to let in a visitor.

FireFly Farms Partners with Crown Finish Caves on Carpenter’s Wheel

April 15, 2021 FireFly Farms

Carpenter’s Wheel is a good cheese made great through a partnership where each can focus on their strength: FireFly as cheese maker, Crown Finish Caves as affineur.