# The best German cheeses

Allgäuer Bergkäse, Tilsit, Limburger, Harzer and Obatzda: Germany's best-known cheeses.

- 3 votes · 20 items
- Apr 14, 2022 · Michael Koch
- https://even.best/en/l/3957/the-best-german-cheeses

## Top 20

1. **Allgäuer Bergkäse** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Raw-milk Allgäu cheese aged at least four months.
2. **Allgäuer Emmentaler** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Raw-milk Allgäu Emmental aged over three months.
3. **Smoked cheese** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Semi-soft smoked cheese.
4. **Tilsit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Semi-hard smear-ripened cheese.
5. **Limburger** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pungent washed-rind cheese, made in Germany since the 19th century.
6. **Harzer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Low-fat sour-milk cheese from the Harz.
7. **Handkäse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sour-milk cheese, a Frankfurt speciality, often 'with music'.
8. **Obatzda** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bavarian spread of ripe soft cheese, butter and paprika.
9. **Butter cheese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mild, semi-soft cow's cheese.
10. **Cambozola** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Soft blue cheese created in the 1970s.
11. **Romadur** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pungent washed-rind soft cheese.
12. **Edelpilzkäse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fine blue cheese, milder than Roquefort.
13. **Mite cheese** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cheese ripened by cheese mites.
14. **Nieheimer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sour-milk cheese from Nieheim.
15. **Altenburger Ziegenkäse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Soft cow and goat cheese with caraway.
16. **Hirtenkäse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Golden hard cheese from the Allgäu.
17. **Weißlacker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — White-rinded 'beer cheese'.
18. **Kochkäse** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Runny sour-milk cheese with caraway.
19. **Spundekäs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spiced cream cheese from Rhenish Hesse.
20. **Quark** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mild fresh cheese.

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