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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==About [http://www.dragonwales.co.uk/ South Caernarfon Creameries]==<br /> Dragon Welsh [[milk]] is collected daily from our 125 family owned dairy farms. Their farms are spread across North and Mid Wales. The cows on these farms have delicious lush grass to graze on with some enjoying the view of Snowdonia National Park!<br /> <br /> Our tankers travel across Wales every day to collect [[milk]] from the farms and take it back to our Creamery, the [[milk]] is carefully stored and quality tested before we make our [[cheese]] and [[butter]].<br /> The [[milk]] is pasteurised which destroys any harmful bacteria and then pumped over to the cheese-making vats to start its transformation into award-winning Dragon cheese<br /> <br /> Starter cultures (a special blend of bacteria) are added to the milk, this converts the milk sugar ([[lactose]]) to acid to begin the cheese-making process. Vegetarian [[rennet]] is then added to set the [[milk]] and it forms a blancmange type product. This is cut into pieces forming [[curds]] and [[whey]] which are stirred together.<br /> <br /> The whey is drained away leaving the [[curd]] which makes the cheese. The curd is milled into small chips and placed on our cheese tables, where we salt the cheese by hand, one of many traditional processes that we have retained. Once the salt has been added and mixed in, the curd chips are made into cheese blocks in special towers and transferred to a cool store for maturing.<br /> <br /> Maturation is a lengthy process as we mature Dragon vintage cheese for up to 2 years. Our team of experienced Dragon Cheese Graders continually monitor and taste the cheese. Choosing which ones will mature the best and which ones will be good to eat young and mild.<br /> <br /> Once the cheese has reached its peak we prepare it for sale in all our different formats from 20kg blocks for catering cheese to 180g retail packs to use at home.<br /> <br /> ===Dragon Cheese Product Gallery===<br /> &lt;gallery widths=270px heights=270px perrow=5&gt;<br /> Image:Dragon traditional Caerphilly cheese packet.jpg|[[Dragon traditional Caerphilly cheese|Dragon traditional Caerphilly cheese]]<br /> Image:Dragon mild Welsh Cheddar cheese.jpg|[[Dragon mild Welsh cheddar cheese|Dragon mild Welsh cheddar cheese]]<br /> Image:Dragon mature Welsh cheddar cheese.jpg|[[Dragon mature Welsh cheddar cheese|Dragon mature Welsh cheddar cheese]]<br /> Image:Dragon vintage Welsh cheddar cheese.jpg|[[Dragon vintage Welsh cheddar cheese|Dragon vintage Welsh cheddar cheese]]<br /> Image:Dragon reduced fat mature Welsh cheddar cheese.jpg|[[Dragon reduced fat mature Welsh cheddar cheese|Dragon reduced fat mature Welsh cheddar cheese]]<br /> Image:Cavern Cheddar cheese.jpg|[[Cavern Cheddar cheese|Dragon Cavern Cheddar cheese]]<br /> Image:Dragon-monterey-jack.jpg|[[Dragon Monterey Jack cheese|Dragon Monterey Jack cheese]]<br /> &lt;/gallery&gt;<br /> ===Where to buy Dragon cheeses===<br /> Dragon cheese products can be purchased from Sainsbury&#039;s, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl, local independent stores and cheese shops.<br /> <br /> For trade, catering and export enquiries see their [http://www.dragonwales.co.uk/where-to-buy/ where to buy page].</div>

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