Koch-Cheese AG | Menschen

Zeitgeist for the Art of Cheese.

Courageous, Creative, Innovative.

A Sense for What’s Special.

Calmly Created, a Wealth of Ideas.

Old Craftsmanship and New Creations

The Skill of Each and Every One Adds Up to Create the Most Special Moment of Enjoyment

It’s incredible what you can achieve if you perform your daily work as friends. Friends who are crazy about what they do, crazy in the most positive sense of the word. Where we live, here in the Appenzell region, this results in the most extraordinary cheese creations. «Tailor-Made Cheese» by Koch, made by people who each and every day and with the utmost care manufacture unique hand-made products. And as a matter of course, we also bring to the table the right amount of innovation and creativity in order to have perfect cheese enjoyment reach maturity.

Koch-Cheese Affinieren von der Sorte Braukunst

We Give Every Cheese Its Own Personal Dress

Refining Techniques for Tailor-Made Cheese Creations

As affineurs, we know how to creatively refine cheese, we uphold the culture of maturation, and we thus develop a degree of cheese enjoyment which is pleasing to the eye and which will win you over by its love of detail. Haute Couture cheese with a pronounced sensitivity for what is special. Cheese refinement for which we apply lots of passion, attentive care, and love for detail.

Koch Cheese Frau buegelt Kaese im Keller

If We Could, We’d Even Iron on Our Labels

Tailor-Made Means Individuality and Top Precision

Craftsmanship means having lots of experience and being aware of all the subtleties. This is exactly where the difference resides: the difference you can taste. Only the combination of know-how and innovation enables us to make everything we do with such care that we are content with the final result, that we can be proud of what we’ve created. This pride is the hallmark of a truly unique creation.

Proximity Is a Plus

Our Supply Chain Consists of Years of Trust and Confidence.

Starting with our dairy farmers who live and work around Gonten, who together with us have been safeguarding the quality of their milk. Everything related to animal husbandry, feeding, animal welfare, and sustainable production is very close to their heart. Their quality milk is permanently being tested by our master cheese makers and optimized time and again in coordination with us and with the farmers.
And only when all concerned act according to their hearts and to their minds will the result satisfy us all. The good thing about it is that everyone takes on responsibility for their own part, but we still think and act as a community.

We Don’t Have Suppliers. Only friends!

Let all the others have suppliers and maintain business relationships. We call those with whom we’ve been working together for years: friends. And as a result from this long-standing friendship and the joint responsibility for quality we derive hand-made, tailor-made products with extraordinary taste. Cheese specialities with exactly those ingredients that make them so unique.

«Tailor-Made Cheese» with the added plus of personal relationships, regional focus, short distances, and sustainable concepts. One of our oldest and most loyal friends is Hans – our master cheese maker.

Refining Cheese Until Its Perfection

Refining cheese – what the French call affinage – is the high class of cheese making; and for us, it is familiar craftsmanship, working hand in hand. Here, Kevin and Dominik are applying the decisive kick to «Braukunst» [the art of brewing], our «Craftprotz» [muscle craftsman], using a craft beer with a decidedly roasted aroma. It gives the cheese a special taste, and lends the rind an incomparable ebony shine. For the perfect product that we want, careful procedures are essential – just like continuous quality monitoring.

Craftsmanship With a Golden Rind

For us, cheese making still is true craftsmanship – made by real people and friends, like Alfred, who has learned the trade of cheese refining and who is a passionate advocate of it. We know: only by making each cheese by hand, letting it mature naturally, turning it over ourselves, caring for it and checking it regularly, will it gain its unique taste and character and will finally turn into our «Tailor-Made Cheese» that we’re so proud of.

Koch-Cheese Schweizer Kreuz mit Naehnadel

Our Home: Appenzell

Gonten is Home to Creativity, the Koch Family, and Cheese

We from Koch live for the best cheese, and here in the Appenzell region, we find everything necessary for a really good cheese and taste: intact nature which we protect, and like-minded people who together with us fill our claim to premium quality with life. That way, we can create really unique things – for people who love to indulge in taste and for cheese connoisseurs.