{"id":7904,"date":"2025-01-24T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T21:59:47","slug":"workshop-developing-a-tasting-and-grading-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=7904","title":{"rendered":"Workshop &#8211;  Developing a Tasting and Grading Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_x_x_gmail_quote\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">As cheesemakers, we&#8217;re always\u00a0tasting our cheese (it&#8217;s one of the major perks!) but it can be hard to capture the info that our taste buds are telling\u00a0us. In this workshop, we&#8217;ll discuss how to develop a simple and effective tasting and grading\u00a0program for your small creamery. We will discuss when and how to taste your cheese throughout\u00a0the aging process and how to take that information back to the vat. We will also talk about the common sensory defects found\u00a0in cheese, the importance of shelf-life sampling, and of course we&#8217;ll taste some cheese!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Kate Turcotte has been a cheesemaker for over 15 years and has worked at Shelburne Farms, Consider Bardwell, Orb Weaver Creamery, and von Trapp Farm.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>When: February 02, 2025 , 1 PM &#8211; 4 PM\u00a0 EST<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where: Balfour Farm, 461 Webb Rd., Pittsfiel<\/strong>d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.wildapricot.org\/event-6043359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EVENT DETAILS and registration.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cheesemakers, we&#8217;re always\u00a0tasting our cheese (it&#8217;s one of the major perks!) but it can be hard to capture the info that our taste buds are telling\u00a0us. In this workshop, we&#8217;ll discuss how to develop a simple and effective tasting and grading\u00a0program for your small creamery. We will discuss when and how to taste your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,249],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-events","8":"category-news","9":"category-workshops","11":"post-with-thumbnail","12":"post-with-thumbnail-icon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7906,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7904\/revisions\/7906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}