Unhomogenised Milk & Cream
Pasture-led and unhomogenised.
Our milk & cream has a rich, golden colour through the glass and a layer of cream sitting at the top of the bottle. That cream stays where it settles because we leave the milk unhomogenised and as close to it’s natural state as possible.
Our 1 litre glass bottle is the certified organic format in the range. The other formats are made on the same pasture-led principles.
Pasture-Led Dairy
Our farms are pasture-led. The cows graze outside from around the middle of February until the weather turns in late autumn, building their diet around fresh grass rather than treating it as a supplement to indoor feed. When the grass stops growing and the ground turns wet, the herds come inside and are fed on silage cut from the same fields, so the diet stays rooted in the same pasture even through winter.
The Cheshire Plain is unusually well suited to grazing. Glacial clay holds moisture and grows extraordinary grass, and the mild, damp climate keeps it going far longer than in harsher parts of the country. What a cow eats shows up in her milk. The beta-carotene in fresh grass carries through to the bottle as a natural golden colour, and the milk has a depth and a gently sweet creaminess that shifts with the seasons.
The Sizes We Make
1 litre
Unhomogenised organic milk, in a 1 litre bottle for the home table.
2 litres
Unhomogenised whole milk & cream, in a 2 litre cartons for the household that gets through more and wholesale partners.
18 litre kegs
Our 18 litre refillable keg for cafes and food service kitchens. Returned, washed and refilled rather than thrown away.
You’ll find our retail formats in selected Waitrose & Partners stores, Sainsbury’s and Ocado, alongside farm shops and delis. Along side our 18 litre kegs, we also offer other food service sizes through our wholesale service.
Why We Leave It Unhomogenised
Most milk and cream on the supermarket shelf is homogenised. The process disperses the fat globules in the cream into smaller pieces so they stay evenly dispersed through the milk, giving it a uniform appearance. Instead, we keep the cream intact gives the milk a richer texture and a fuller mouthfeel, and the cream rises to the top of the bottle the way it traditionally did. Give it a shake before pouring.
The 18-Litre Keg
We were the first dairy in Europe to deliver milk to food service in returnable, refillable 18-litre kegs through out relationship with The Udder Way. Each keg is filled at our dairy, delivered to the customer, used over a few days, returned to us, washed to HACCP standards, and refilled. A single keg has a working life of eight to ten years and the working capacity of thousands of plastic cartons. At the end of its life, the keg is recycled.
The kegs are compatible with all the major in-counter milk dispensers, including Ubermilk, Flo-smart, The Juggler and Milk Mate. We track each keg through an app, which means we can tell every customer exactly how many single-use bottles their kitchen has saved by being on the system.
