Best Cheeses in US To Be Selected On The Frozen Tundra in Titletown USA
Madison—The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA) will team up with the home of the Green Bay Packers to present the 2009 United States Championship Cheese Contest at Lambeau Field in Green Bay next March.
The moniker “Titletown USA” was given to Green Bay after the 12 National Football League titles as the team was winning five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls. The 12 is the most by any NFL team.
The cheese contest have been giving titles to the best cheeses since the 1890s. This year’s event will take place March 17-19, 2009.
“We’re excited to team up two Wisconsin icons, Lambeau Field and Wisconsin’s cheese industry, to host the nation’s most prestigious dairy competition,” said John Umhoefer, executive director of the WCMA, which hosts the contest.
The US Championship Cheese Contest, held in odd-numbered years, returns to Green Bay after years’ of affiliation with the Wisconsin Restaurant Expo in Milwaukee.
The move to Green Bay offers new media and marketing opportunities, Umhoefer said, and the Lambeau Field Atrium is open to the general public year-round.
Lambeau Field has been the home of the Green Bay Packers since 1957. The stadium underwent a 32-month, $295 million redevelopment several years ago that transformed the structure from a football stadium that fans could use only 10 days during the season to a Packers cultural center,
including the five-story Lambeau
Field Atrium.
The WCMA will invite two
dozen cheese experts from across the US to travel to Green Bay for the three-day event.
Cheese makers and butter makers from across the United States participate and are expected to enter more than 1,200 products for the judging.
Cheeses and butters compete for gold medals in classes ranging from Aged Cheddar and Blue to Brie and Feta, and on the final day of the contest, March 19, the entire line-up of gold medal cheeses compete a second time to select one United States Champion Cheese.
Contest details will be mailed to in October. Complete contest information will also be available on the WCMA’s website, www.wischeesemakersassn.org. •
