Prästost

Prästost ("priest cheese") is a Swedish cheese with historical roots in Sweden's one-time custom of paying tithes with agricultural goods including milk.

[1] Milk spoils easily so most farms instead produced a small eyed cheese that had its curing process started by mixing in a small batch of fermented curds.

Today, this style of cheese once produced in churches across Sweden is factory-made from pasteurized cow's milk.

Prästost is sometimes soaked or cured in whisky or other spirits; Saaland Pfarr is one such whisky-soaked variant.

[2] A version of prästost aged for 12 months and cured in Absolut vodka has been marketed as VODCheese.