Tegel

Almnäs Bruk is an 8,800-acre farm, founded by monks in 1225. Over the years cheese became an integral product for the estate, with Wrångebäck drawing asenron from Swedish Parliament and thekingdom’s crown princess.

Aver WWII, trends towards industrializaron made cheese producron at Almnäs less feasible. Cheese was disconrnued at Almnäs, and their milk was redirected to the commodity market in 1961. Eventually, fluid milk prices became increasingly volarle, and the familiar need for a value-added product became clear. In 2008 the original cheesemaker, Hans Srller, spearheaded the revival of cheesemaking at Almnäs, converrng the estate’s former disrllery into a farmstead dairy.

Tegel is a raw cow’s milk farmstead cheese, produced and aged 18 months at Almnäs Bruk in central Sweden. It is named for and reminiscent of the handmade bricks produced at the property during itsindustrial period. The bricks were produced from the property’s own clay and sun-dried in the fields. Many have preserved the footprints of the workman and their children.