Welcome to Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, home of Blacksticks Blue and the very best speciality farmhouse cheeses. Please take a wander down “Blacksticks Lane” and discover the real stories behind Butlers and our passion for the cheeses that we make entirely by hand on our farm at Wilson Fields in rural Lancashire. You can buy our cheeses in many specialist cheese shops and supermarkets or on-line by scrolling to the bottom of this page and clicking on the "Farm Shop". We hope you enjoy your visit.
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Turning a classic blue
Here at Butlers, we’re passionate about our products and we get immense pleasure from reading how our fans enjoy them. So we wanted to share this recipe by The Lone Gourmet, for a classic alpine tartiflette with a Blacksticks twist: …
A Chinese cheese
Chinese food and cheese aren’t a combination that you necessarily put together, however to celebrate Chinese New Year here at Butlers we did a bit of research and discovered there are a number of special cheeses made in different provinces …
Cheesed off?
Try mood boosting foods to lift the January gloom. Cheese can help you sleep thanks to an amino acid called Tryptophan. Maybe have a little Blacksticks Blue crumbled into a salad this week
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from everyone at Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses.
The Ideal Cheeseboard
We’ve been asked a few times here at Butlers what makes the ideal cheeseboard, so we got hold of third generation cheesemaker and current managing director of Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, Gill Hall and asked for her opinion. …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 12 Lancashire
“On the twelfth day of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a taste of home!”
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 11 Kidderton Ash
“On the eleventh day of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a soft white goat’s cheese coated in ash.” Christmas Eve is such a special day, so we have selected a very special cheese to enjoy before the party starts. This …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No.10 Trotters Hill
“The tenth cheese of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a cheese named after a hill!” The tenth cheese in our series is a handmade, fully matured rinded Lancashire, which is aged in our Throstle Nest barn. This very special Lancashire …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 9 Blacksticks Silk
“The ninth cheese of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a blue goat!” The ninth cheese in our series has taken cheese shows by storm in 2011, taking the Supreme Champion title at the Cheshire County Show, along with Bronze awards …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 8 Sweet & Nutty Inglewhite
“On the eighth day of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a versatile hard white goats cheese.” As the we begin to near the end of our series, we thought we would look at another of our award winning cheeses, this …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 7 Double Gloucester
“On the seventh day of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a golden chunk of Double Gloucester.” As the seventh cheese in our series, we wanted to look at another traditional British territorial cheese – Double Gloucester – known at Butlers …
12 Cheeses of Christmas – No. 6 Blacksticks Velvet
“On the sixth day of Christmas, Butlers sent to me, a blue sheep.” As we hit the halfway point in the series, it’s time to look at another of our Blacksticks cheeses. This handmade, blue veined, soft cheese comes …
