🧀 Bergader

Bergader is a Bavarian family cheese dairy, Bergader Privatkäserei, founded in 1902 by the cheesemaker Basil Weixler. According to the company, it has made cheese for four generations and has always been a family business.

Weixler set up on his own as a cheesemaker at 21 and early on began paying his milk suppliers according to the fat content of their milk. After the First World War he developed a Bavarian mountain blue cheese modelled on French Roquefort. The brand name joins 'Berg' (mountain) and 'Ader' (vein); the Watzmann mountain inspired the name and the logo. In 1935 Germany's first Edelpilz cheese plant opened in the cellars and stalls of the old Postbräu in Waging.

In 1972, under Charlotte Steffel, the founder's daughter, the company launched Bavaria blu, which it describes as the first soft cheese with white mould outside and blue mould inside. Today cheese is made at two sites, Waging am See and Bad Aibling, where hauliers bring around one million litres of milk a day.

The ranges include Bavaria blu and Bergbauern Käse (each with its own page), Almzeit, Heumilch Käse, Watzmann, Amoroso blu and edelblu.