Matured Gouda cheese has a maturation period of 16 to 18 weeks. Because of this its taste is somewhat stronger than that of young Gouda cheese and semi-matured Gouda cheese, but it is still milder in flavour than aged cheese. Rather, the flavour of our matured cheese can be described as full and creamy.

Enjoying full flavor, Old Amsterdam will give you just that. The special flavor of Old Amsterdam is the result of a combined passion for making cheese and special flavors.
This Old Amsterdam cheese has been awarded in 2014 with the Superior Taste Award.

In order to create a mature farmer’s cheese a cheesemaker has to mature a cheese for seven to eight months. During this period of maturing some fluids in the cheese evaporate so that the cheese ends up being a little dry: all the flavours in the mature farmer’s cheese are more concentrated than in new cheese. 

Old Gouda cheese, in Dutch ‘overjarige kaas’, has a maturing period of more than a year. During that time the salt inside the cheese has crystallized, therefore this very mature cheese has a very rich and salty flavour.

The Matured Frisian clove (‘nail’) cheese is a firm cheese made from pasteurised cow’s milk and is matured for 16 to 18 weeks in order to give the cheese its distinct flavour. This spicy and edgy Frisian cheese is made with both cloves and cumin and high in vitamin A and B.