Tingvollost

Annual production in 2014 was 21 tons of cheese based on 200 000 liters milk.

[1][2] It first won the national championship in 2009 as well as medaled in the Nordic Cheese Competition in Denmark.

[6] Mild Mester was in 2015 made a "Super Gold" and among 62 cheeses nominated to win World Cheese Awards 2015 in Birmingham, Edel frue and Vismann, taking bronze, while Kraftkar won silver.

[1] It was founded in 2003 by the Waagen family in conjunction with the Saghaug Gård, a farm dating from the 1300s.

The startup was partially due to minister of agriculture Lars Sponheim in 2003 allowing milk farmers to make cheese from their own milk (not from the TINE quota).

Tingvollost Kraftkar (upper right), with Edel Bla another cheese, upper left.