Beenleigh Blue vs Lanark Blue
Beenleigh Blue
Facts
- Milk
- Sheep
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Beenleigh Blue is a soft blue cheese from the United Kingdom, made from sheep's milk. The paste is pale, moist, and creamy, with green-blue veins running through it. It is unpressed, so the body stays tender rather than hard and dry. A thin rind, often kept in check once the blue appears, does not dominate the taste. The flavor is salty and tangy, but also sweet, with a lighter feel than many sheep's milk blues.
Lanark Blue
Facts
- Milk
- Sheep
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Lanark Blue is a Scottish blue cheese from the United Kingdom, made with raw sheep's milk. It is often set beside Roquefort in style, because both are sheep's milk cheeses with blue veins, but it is its own farmhouse wheel. The paste is creamy and ivory, with blue-green lines through it. A natural rind may show white, blue, and gray mold before the cheese is wrapped for sale. The taste is salty, rich, and tangy, and it changes with the season and the length of aging.