Renegade Monk vs Stinking Bishop
Renegade Monk
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Renegade Monk is an English artisan cheese made from organic cow's milk. It is soft, blue veined, and washed on the rind, so it does not sit neatly in one old British category. The paste can turn creamy and even spoonable as it ripens. Ale is used to wash the rind, which adds a savory tang beside the blue. The smell is strong, and the cheese is meant for people who like pungent washed rinds as well as mold veins.
Stinking Bishop
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Stinking Bishop is a semi-soft washed-rind cheese from the United Kingdom, made with pasteurized cow's milk. The paste is pale and creamy, and the rind runs from orange to gray-pink. Makers wash that rind with perry, a fermented pear drink, which feeds the bacteria that create the famous smell. The name is shared with the pear used for that perry. The aroma is strong, but the flavor inside is milder than the smell suggests.