American Cheese Society, Inc.

Providing recognition and incentives by the way of awards to demonstrate excellence in the field of valuable contributions that impact the American cheese industry

Cheese evaluation services in the nature of identifying accurately cheeses and cheese styles, identifying positive cheese attributes as well as technical flaws, assessing and judging cheese, using a consistent lexicon of sensory terms to describe and discuss cheese with producers, buyers, and consumers, determining cheese and food and/or beverage pairings, providing consultation to industry professionals to enhance cheesemaking or handling, and providing expert sensory guidance to cheese consumers; all the foregoing performed by a cheese industry professional with comprehensive cheese knowledge in the areas of cheese condition, cheese quality, cheese flavor, cheese body, cheese texture, and cheese appearance, in order to evaluate cheese using sensory and organoleptic assessments

"TEST"; Testing, analysis, and evaluation of the knowledge, skills and abilities of others in the field of sensory and organoleptic assessment of cheese to determine conformity with certification standards

"CHEESE SOCIETY"

"CERTIFIED" OR "PROFESSIONAL"