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Raw cow milk is set quickly with bovine rennet at no more than 37 °C, then ladled by hand in thin layers with a perforated "pelle à brie" into moulds 36–37 cm wide. The flat disc drains on mats (cagets), is dry-salted and grows a white bloom in a drying room, then ripens in cellars; ripening lasts at least four weeks from renneting.
bacterial cultures added to the milk (thermophilic cultures banned); after salting the cheese is treated with mould spores
Total time across the recorded steps: 53 days
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What changes:Starting material: raw cow milk, part-skimmed to set its fat
Step 1 of 8
Collect raw milk
Time
up to 36 h
Set
Temperature
up to 40 °C
Set
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Penicillium candidum
Moulds
Freezing the milk, curd or fresh cheese is banned.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Raw cow milk is set quickly with bovine rennet at no more than 37 °C, then ladled by hand in thin layers with a perforated "pelle à brie" into moulds 36–37 cm wide. The flat disc drains on mats (cagets), is dry-salted and grows a white bloom in a drying room, then ripens in cellars; ripening lasts at least four weeks from renneting. Made in 8 steps over 53 days. The longest step, ripen in cellars, takes at least 28 days (Ministère de l'agriculture 2020) and runs at 4–14 °C (Ministère de l'agriculture 2020). Penicillium candidum, a mould first isolated from a Brie in 1897 by Georges Roger; the specification allows mould cultures and the bloom (fleur) grows in the drying room does most of the fermenting.
Brie de Meaux is much wider than Camembert, at 36–37 cm, and it is set fast with a high dose of rennet rather than left to sour slowly. That rennet curd is ladled with a wide perforated pelle à brie and travels well before ripening, while the smaller Brie de Melun uses a slower lactic curd.
Milk
Raw cow milk, pre-matured under 48 h at 22 °C or less; thermophilic cultures are banned
Setting
Bovine rennet at 37 °C or less; coagulation takes under 2 h
Moulding
Moulded by hand in thin layers with the pelle à brie, a perforated skimmer 28–32 cm wide, into moulds 36–37 cm across
Draining
Drains on its own on cagets at 30 °C or less; dry salt only
Ripening
At least 4 weeks: under 21 days in the ripening room at 8–16 °C, then caves at 4–14 °C; ripe to the core at 6–8 weeks
Size
2.6–3.3 kg; fat in dry matter at least 45%; dry matter at least 44%
This is a raw-milk cheese. ANSES advises pregnant women, young children, people over 65 and people with weak immunity not to eat raw-milk cheeses other than cooked pressed ones such as Comté. The specification requires pH 4.9 or lower one day after demoulding, to set the cheese's lactic character; it does not give this as a safety limit.
Hazards the sources name: Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella and Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli (risks ANSES names for raw-milk cheeses).
The 1995 EU application says cheese from the Brie country seems to have been known since Charlemagne, and that Brie de Meaux won fame at the Congress of Vienna in 1814. The 2020 specification says that at the end of the 19th century rennet use was better mastered and the large rennet-type Brie split from smaller lactic cheeses, and that Georges Roger isolated Penicillium candidum from a Brie in 1897. Both texts say it obtained its AOC in August 1980.