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Home » Dairy » Cheese » Soft Cheeses » Brie Cheese » Brie de Meaux

Brie de Meaux

Brie de Meaux in a shop

Brie de Meaux in a shop. David Callan / Getty Images via Canva Pro.

Brie de Meaux is a Brie cheese with a very pale yellow interior and a white velvet rind. It develops a nutty flavour as it ages.

The cheese is made year round, but the ones made in the fall are considered by some to be the best.

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  • 1 Production
  • 2 Nutrition
  • 3 History Notes
  • 4 Related entries

Production

Brie de Meaux is made from raw cow’s milk (the milk must be unpasteurized to meet its AOC specifications.)

Rennet is added, and the milk heated to 37 C (98.6 F.) The curd is then put into a mould by hand with a tool they call a Brie shovel (“pelle à Brie”), salted, and hand-shaped into wheels.

The cheese is aged at least 4 weeks. The rind is not washed, but the cheese is turned several times by hand.

A typical wheel of this cheese will be 36 cm wide x  2 ½ cm tall (14 inches x 1 inch), and weigh around 2.8 kg (6 ¼ pounds.) It will have required 25 litres (6.6 US gallons) of milk to make that wheel.

Brie de Meaux is usually sold when young, about 1 week old, to an cheese ager (affineur.) This has been done since the 1800s, particularly to cheese agers in Paris.

Though first made in Meaux, since the 1850s its production area has followed cheese factories moving eastward. Now, Brie de Meaux is made all around Paris, in the département of Seine & Marne, and in parts of the départements of Aube, Haute-Marne, Marne, Meuse, and Yonne. More than 60% of the cheese is produced in Meuse.

If this cheese is classed Brie de Meaux Fermier (“fermier” meaning “farm”), it must be made on a farm with milk from that farm’s own cows. As of 2022, the single producer that meets this requirement is Trente Arpents Farm at Favières in Seine & Marne.

Brie de Meaux on store shelf

Brie de Meaux on store shelf showing PDO mark. © Cooksinfo / 2017

Nutrition

Brie de Meaux contains 45% butterfat

Per 100 g (3 ½ oz)
Calories 260 to 350
Protein 20 to 21 g
Calcium 150 to 575 mg

History Notes

Brie de Meaux cheese received its French AOC on 18 August 1980. The conditions of the AOC were redefined on 31 December 1986.

Related entries

  • Brie de Chèvre
  • Brie de Coulommiers Cheese
  • Brie de Melun
  • Brie de Montereau
  • Brie de Nangis
  • Brie Noir
This page first published: Aug 1, 2005 · Updated: Feb 6, 2022.

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