Washed rind Cow’s milk

Limburger

The bacterium that makes it smell also lives on human feet. Genuinely.

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Belgian in origin, German by adoption. The rind culture is *Brevibacterium linens*, the same organism responsible for foot odour — which is not a slur but a documented fact, and is why mosquito researchers have used Limburger as bait.

Get past that and the cheese is meaty, mushroomy and surprisingly mild in the mouth. The Wisconsin tradition is a Limburger sandwich on rye with raw onion and brown mustard.

Tastes of

cured meat mushroom ammonia at the rind sweet cream

Put it next to

Dark rye Raw onion Bock beer Brown mustard