09/22/2026
Our first three classes have sold old out, so we're adding another! Join us Sunday evening, October 25 for a two-hour cheese tasting & storytelling experience -- An Art You Can Taste: Six Small-Batch, Aged Cheeses of Switzerland.
The backstory: Firefly owners Uriah & Jeanne spent two weeks studying with Roland Sahli, a Master Cheesemaker and Affineur for Gourmino Cheese, a small, cheesemaker-owned cooperative in Switzerland. Roland gave us the opportunity to experience the art and science of cheesemaking and cheese aging with six different master cheesemakers in different regions of the country, including making L’Etivaz over an open fire, flipping 200-pound wheels of Emmentaler in the Emmental Valley, and learning how to grade giant wheels of Gruyere inside a mountain cheese cave.
As Roland told us time and time again: “The role of an affineur is to see the potential of a cheese.” After learning the art and science behind the craft of making and aging big wheels of cheese, your role at this class will be to taste and compare six cheeses made and aged by five different Master Cheesemakers in Switzerland and learning the stories of each:
• Hornbacher, made by Gourmino World Champion Master Cheesemaker Michael Spycher
• L’Etivaz AOP: a raw-milk alpine cheese made over an open fire: we’ll create the world’s rarest Grilled Cheese
• Emmentaler AOP, made by Gourmino Master Cheesemaker Fritz Baumgartner
• Le Gruyère AOP, made by Gourmino Master Cheesemaker Urs Leuenberger
• Berner Hobelkase AOP, made by Master Cheesemaker René Ryser at Molkerei Gstaad
• Rockflower, made by Gourmino Master Cheesemaker Silvio Schöpfer, nicknamed “The Baked Potato Cheese”
Cost is $65 per person and includes complimentary w**e, sparkling apple c***r and pairing accoutrements. Classes are held at Firefly Coffeehouse & Artisan Cheese, located at 114 North Main Street in downtown Oregon, Wis.
Special Bonus: a limited number of small wedges of several of these cheeses will be available for sale at the end of class.
Sign up here: https://go.fireflycoffeehouse.com/cheeseclass
