Our Award-Winning History
We’ve won some pretty amazing awards for our cheese recently. And not to brag or anything, but we have won well over 600 awards for our cheese and dairy products throughout our 101-year history. So in honor of our Monterey Jack and Colby Jack cheeses winning Best of Class in their respective categories at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest®, here’s a photo of one of our other award-winners.
Albert Haedinger
Albert Haedinger, one of our many cheesemakers in the 1940s-1950s, won the 1953 National Cheddar Cheese Scoring Contest, an event held by the National Dairy Congress. Albert was the first cheesemaker to receive this trophy. The following year the trophy was awarded to another TCCA cheesemaker, Donley Lommen. From 1957 to 1954, four TCCA cheesemakers won the contest’s top honor.
We always knew our cheese was really tasty and made by the best cheesemakers, then and now, but it’s nice to hear it from the experts.
July 25th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
your chesse is the best i just visted orgen and my grandpapa just took me there it was the best tasting chese and ice cream in the whole world!!!!
July 29th, 2011 at 8:32 am
Thanks so much, Sara! Sounds like a fun vacation. Hope you can come back again and see us for more cheese and ice cream!
-Tara of the Tillamook Team