Maytag is a blue cheese produced on the Maytag Dairy Farms outside of Newton, Iowa, the former home of the Maytag Corporation. In 1938, Iowa State University developed a new process for making blue cheese from homogenized cow's milk instead of the traditional sheep's milk.
In 1941, Maytag Dairy Farms began producing world famous Blue Cheese in the heartland of America with milk from a prize winning herd of Holstein cattle.
Maytag blue cheese is made by a time consuming method of hand making cheese in small batches, using fresh sweet milk from Iowa dairy farms. We were told the cows used to in the pasture next door. Each batch of cheese is monitored carefully during the long months of aging in curing caves.
The ownership of Maytag Dairy Farms is now in the third and fourth generations of the Maytag family.
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