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Brouère

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Le Brouère is a French cheese, originally from Lorraine. It is made by the dairy of the Bulgnéville hermitage in Vosges département. A typical round is about 43 centimetres (17 in) in diameter and weighs 12 kilograms (26 lb).

Le brouère est un fromage français, originaire de la Lorraine. Il est fabriqué par la fromagerie de l'Ermitage à Bulgnéville (près de Vittel)
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Le Brouère is a French cheese, originally from Lorraine. It is made by the dairy of the Bulgnéville hermitage in Vosges département. A typical round is about 43 centimetres (17 in) in diameter and weighs 12 kilograms (26 lb). It is shaped in wooden molds with patterns created by an artisan sculptor. Maturation time is 4 to 7 months. It is considered a variant of Gruyère. A wheel was placed into orbit on December 8, 2010, on board the SpaceX Dragon capsule in a tribute to Monty Python's cheese shop sketch. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Brouère”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Brouère is French cheese, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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