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Dubliner is a sweet, 
granular cheese
Granular cheese, also known as stirred curd cheese and hard cheese, is a type of cheese produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curd and whey. It can refer to a wide variety of cheeses, including the grana cheeses such as Parmi ...
made from pasteurised cow's milk aged over a year and manufactured by Carbery, located in County Cork
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, Republic of Ireland
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. Since 1996, it has been marketed internationally by Ornua (formerly the Irish Dairy Board) under the Kerrygold
Ornua
from the Irish "Ór Nua" meaning "new gold" (known as The Irish Dairy Board from 1961 to 2015) is an Irish agricultural cooperative, which markets and sells dairy products on behalf of its members: Irish dairy processors and Irish dairy fa ...
label. The cheese is named after the city of Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...
, although it is made in County Cork.
The cheese aims to combine the sharpness of mature cheddar
Cheddar most often refers to either:
*Cheddar cheese
*Cheddar, Somerset, the village after which Cheddar cheese is named
Cheddar may also refer to:
Places
* Cheddar, Ontario, Canada
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and the buttery sweetness of Parmigiano
Parmesan ( it, Parmigiano Reggiano; ) is an Italian hard, granular cheese produced from cows’ milk and aged at least 12 months.
It is named after two of the areas which produce it, the provinces of Parma and Reggio Emilia (''Parmigiano'' i ...
. Dubliner cheese may contain natural calcium lactate
Calcium lactate is a white crystalline salt with formula , consisting of two lactate anions (CHOH) for each calcium cation . It forms several hydrates, the most common being the pentahydrate ·5.
Calcium lactate is used in medicine, mainly to ...
cheese crystals
Cheese crystals are whitish, semi-solid to solid, slightly crunchy to gritty crystalline spots, granules, and aggregates that can form on the surface and inside of cheese. Cheese crystals are characteristic of many long-aged hard cheeses.
Hard ...
, which appear as small white pieces.
History
John Lucey, an Irishman, created a cheese called "Araglen" in 1990; his goal was to produce an alternative to Cheddar cheese that could be manufactured "using (mostly) existing Cheddar equipment, for sale in Europe." A year later, Carbery Milk Products signed an agreement to commercialize Araglen. Commercial production began in 1994; five years later, it was introduced to the United States, and by 2011, more than had been produced for sale in multiple markets.See also
*List of cheeses
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References
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