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Home » Dairy » Cheese » Semi-Firm Cheeses » Appenzeller Cheese Quarter Fat (Räss-Käse / Brown Label)

Appenzeller Cheese Quarter Fat (Räss-Käse / Brown Label)

Appenzeller Cheese Quarter Fat (Räss-Käse / Brown Label).

Appenzeller Cheese Quarter Fat (Räss-Käse / Brown Label). Reinhard Müller / wikimedia / 2016 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Appenzeller Räss-Käse (Brown Label) cheese is a lower-fat version of Appenzeller Cheese.

It is made from semi-skimmed milk (2% fat milk) and has a fat content of around 18% (dry weight.)

In making this lower-fat version, less water is added while making the cheese, and a lower cooking temperature is used for the curds. Different starter cultures reduce the speed of the fermentation, which in turn lets more water remain in the cheese helping to replicate the body that people expected from full-fat Appenzeller.

It is aged for 6 to 8 months.

It ends up with a texture like that of full-fat Appenzeller, though a bit softer, and with a milder flavour.

The cheese rounds have a diameter of about 30 to 33 cm (≈12 inches), with a height of about 7 to 9 cm (≈3 inches) and an average weight of around 5.7 kg (≈12 pounds). The rind is reddish-brown.

It appeared on the market only at the end of the 1990s, having been developed in response to changing market tastes. According to the Appenzeller Association, however, farmers had made it for themselves long before that.

It is sometimes referred to as “viertelfett Appenzeller” in German (meaning “quarter fat”).

Cooking Tips

The cheese is firm enough to be grated. Good as a complementary cheese in fondues.

Nutrition

Per 100 g: Water 49 g, Protein 35g, Fat 12g, Minerals 5g, 248 kcal / Joules 1039 kJ

Language notes

“Räss-Käse” / Räßkäse means “sharp / spicy cheese”. The cheese is marketed in English as “brown label”, likely because of the packaging. Other versions of Appenzeller are sold with their own unique colour of label as well.

References

Der fettarme Appenzeller® mit markantem Geschmack. Accessed September 2022 at https://www.appenzeller.ch/de/sortiment/appenzeller-raess-kaese

This page first published: Jan 28, 2004 · Updated: Sep 7, 2022.

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