Irish Pub Cheese Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What kind of cheese is pub cheese? ›

Pub cheese is a spreadable dip made from cheese, beer, and spices. Cheddar and Gouda are frequently used in pub cheese, and the addition of cream cheese helps make it more spreadable.

Cashel Blue

Ireland may be referred to as the Emerald Isle, but when it comes to cheese, the Irish are definitely seeing blue. According to Sheridan's, Ireland's largest cheese retailer, Cashel Blue is the country's most popular cheese.

Cashel Blue: The first Irish blue cheese, Cashel Blue is modeled after French Fourme d'Ambert. A semi-soft farmhouse cheese, Cashel Blue is an award-winning cow's milk product made on the Grubb family's Beechmount Farm in Tipperary Ireland.

Serving ideas for pub cheese:

After garnishing with chives, we love serving this with hard or soft pretzels (homemade, maybe?), but pretzel bites work too. Honestly, there's not a lot that doesn't go well with this dip: try everything from crackers to toasty bread to grapes.

Pub cheese is a type of soft cheese spread or dip prepared using cheese as a primary ingredient and usually with some type of beer or ale added. While beer cheese is made with beer, pub cheese can be made without alcohol. Pub cheese is a traditional bar snack in the United States.

Ingredients in beer cheese and pub cheese

Brews aside, beer and pub cheeses are pretty similar dips. They both involve a combination of cheeses and seasonings, and can be heated up or eaten cold (although the cold version is how the dip was originally made).

Ireland is known for having one of the longest grass growing seasons in the world, which means its cows are able to graze on yummy, healthy grass, for more days a year. This grass is free of growth hormones and full of beta-carotene, which makes Irish cheese more flavorful (and colorful).

Cashel Blue

A medium-flavoured blue with a melt in the mouth creaminess, this cheese is less salty than the majority of blues. Ireland's most famous cheese.

Tipperary Irish Castle is a rich and creamy Gouda type cheese with smooth undertones. It is made with the finest milk from grass-fed cows. This cheese will make a great compliment on your next cheese board with fresh fruits and pairs nicely with a crisp white wine like Sauvignon Blanc.

The quality of Irish milk and the land on which the animals graze plays a huge part in the resulting quality of Irish farmhouse cheeses which rightfully hold pride of place in the now thriving Irish food scene. It is estimated that more than 200 different farmhouse cheeses are produced by 70 cheese makers in Ireland.

What is the Irish cheese that is a little hard to chew? ›

Dubliner® is a robust aged cow's milk cheese with a bit of a hard texture similar to a Cheddar.

This cheese will have a beer flavor so use whatever you really like. You can serve this cold or warm. If you're serving it warm, just slowly warm it over low heat whisking constantly, or in the microwave, heating 1 minute at a time, stirring between sessions until it's warm. I usually serve mine cold as a spread.

Beer cheese differs from pub cheese in that the latter doesn't necessarily contain brews, but beer cheese falls under the pub cheese umbrella. If you're alcohol-free or just not a fan of the boozy flavor, a different type of pub cheese may be what you're looking for.

Combine Cheddar cheese, cream cheese, Worcestershire, mustard powder, garlic powder, and onion powder in a food processor. Pulse until the ingredients are mixed. Turn food processor to high and slowly pour in beer through the feed tube; blend until smooth.

Beer cheese differs from pub cheese in that the latter doesn't necessarily contain brews, but beer cheese falls under the pub cheese umbrella. If you're alcohol-free or just not a fan of the boozy flavor, a different type of pub cheese may be what you're looking for.

Smooth, creamy Pub Cheese® spread by Président® is meticulously crafted by blending 9 month aged cheddar with milk, cream and other high-quality ingredients.

Most commonly served with crackers and veggie sticks it is a quintessential American pub grub. The roots of this popular delicacy are in New England. It is widely accepted that similarly to Kentucky beer cheese, pub cheese was invented to encourage patrons in pubs and bars alike to order more beer, hence the name.