• Busy chefs, culinary students, and restaurant owners: Ever wanted to start a cheese program at your restaurant? Open your own cheese shop? Become a cheese educator?
• Wine, beer, beverage, mixology professionals: Learn everything you need to know about the ultimate pairing partner
• Serious cheese enthusiasts: You know it, we know it: cheese has arrived. Time to get a crash course on one of food's hottest subjects.

• Instruction from our in-house experts

• Longer, more in-depth classes

• Murray's Cheese certified diploma

• 10% discount at Murray's for all purchases made during Boot Camp weekend

• The Murray's Cheese Handbook

• The Boot Camp class binder, chock-full of cheese literature, cheese charts, cheese facts, tasting forms, maps, and more!

Welcome to Cheese U Boot Camp: no ordinary cheese course. Collect your binders, complete with readings for each session, and get a crash course on the common thread throughout the series: tasting. Beyond Cheese 101. WAY beyond. Just what makes one cheese different from the next? We'll explore the role raw materials and technique shape the final product of cheese through milk science and sensory observation.  We'll also start a young cheese to see first-hand the role that cultures and time play in turning milk into cheese.Taste through a bevy of different cheese types and introduce your palate to the flavor characteristics of each and every family of cheese. Learn about flavor profiles and the idiosyncratic elements that distinguish one cheese type from the next and get initiated to the level of tasting that you will "have to" endure for the remainder of the series..

Ah, Affinage: That magical final step in the cheesemaking process, the culmination of every measure taken to ensure a fine wheel of cheese, and the process that can determine whether your cheese becomes nutty and full bodied or rubbery and dry. Affinage can affect the flavor, texture, appearance, and durability of cheese. This session, BE ONE WITH THE CHEESE: Class is conducted in our caves, and you're doing the smelly work, as we guide you through a tasting and affinage exercise illustrating the integral role that aging plays in the flavor development of cheese. 

In this session, understand how history, politics, and religion have influenced cheesemaking and cheese styles. How does a country's topography influence its cheese production? What are the origins of cheese? How have cheesemaking methods evolved through time? During an international crash course on the world's greatest cheese regions and the fromage that made them famous, learn about the pivotal elements of history and geography that have influenced cheesemaking styles.

In this session, we're putting our knowledge to the test!  Learn how to plate and portion the cheeses we've tasted thus far for presentation, creating your own fantastic cheese plate.  We'll blind taste cheeses to determine which milks and techniques were utilized, as well as in what regions the cheeses originated.  Finally, we'll prepare ourselves for an extensive beverage pairing session by partnering cheese with a variety of condiments of all flavor profiles to create our own perfect matches.

After twelve hours of exhaustive cheese research, it's time for an afternoon of matchmaking. Understand in full the pairing capabilities and fundamentals of both wine and beer with our moldy little friends, and learn for yourself how the unique craft of pairing correctly makes your cheese sing.