Ploughgate Creamery has been crafting small-batch, cultured butter of the finest quality in Vermont since 2014. Learn More

Cultured butter, what is it? In short, it’s butter made in the European style by adding live active cultures to cream before churning, similar to cheese or yogurt. Cultured butter is tangier and richer than your everyday stick butter, with a taste reminiscent of cheese. That’s because cultured butter and cheese share a critical first step–the addition of beneficial live bacteria (the ‘culture’ in cultured butter).

To begin our butter-making process, we add active cultures to the cream and let it sit for 24 hours. This step imparts complexity to the aroma, flavor, and texture of the finished product. Then we churn! Gratefully the days of hand churning are long gone, and our small batch churn does the work of separating the yellow butter kernels from the frothy buttermilk. We fold in coarse sea salt before hand wrapping the butter in our signature kraft paper packaging. The Ploughgate butter you unwrap is nutty, grassy, and sweet—simply divine.

Does any joy parallel warm bread slathered with melty butter? 

We've researched it thoroughly and the answer is no. But if you haven't yet been indoctrinated into the world of cultured butter take note, butter's even better than you think.

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