Cheese Database

Bonne Bouche vs Humboldt Fog

Bonne Bouche

Facts

Milk
Goat
Texture
Soft
Type
Bloomy rind
Rind
Bloomy rind
Country
United States
Place
Vermont

Bonne Bouche is a Vermont brand of American goat's milk cheese. The name is French for a good mouthful, and the cheese is sold as a small aged round. Makers use pasteurized goat's milk and dust the curd with ash. A wrinkled rind grows over that ash as the cheese ripens in its wrap. The paste turns creamy, and the goat flavor gets rounder and stronger with time.

Humboldt Fog

Facts

Milk
Goat
Texture
Soft
Type
Bloomy rind
Rind
Bloomy rind
Country
United States
Place
California

Humboldt Fog is a brand of goat's milk cheese from California, in the United States. It is a soft, mold-ripened wheel with a white bloomy rind and a thin line of edible vegetable ash through the middle. The line shows as a dark ribbon when the wheel is cut, which is the mark shoppers recognize. Pasteurized goat's milk gives a bright, lemony base. The cheese is sold under a brand name, not as a general style that any dairy may copy freely.