Heat Wedge
Ready To Eat
Pepper jack set a low bar, and Sweet Grass Dairy cleared it decisively with Heat: a semi-firm aged cheese built on real Pasilla and Ancho chiles for depth and Chipotle and Paprika for smoke, each wheel aged at least 60 days until it melts as easily onto a weeknight taco as it holds its own on a board. Launched in 2024 out of the creamery’s Thomasville, Georgia kitchen and already a Bronze medalist at the 2025 World Cheese Awards, it’s a spiced cheese that earns a place alongside the traditional wheels rather than playing novelty. Perfect for a queso worth making from scratch, a burger that needs a lift, or the friend who puts hot sauce on everything.
This package serves 2-4 people and includes a wedge of Heat Cheese (5 oz.)
- Choose to add more!
Add On Options Include
- Spotted Trotter Black Pepper Sorghum Salami (3 oz.)
- Spotted Trotter Georgia Blue Salami (3 oz.)
- Blackberry Patch Jam (2 oz.)
- Oh Snap! Dilly Bites (3.25 oz.)
- Flouwer Co. Sweet Rose Water – Cocktail Cubes ( 2 oz.)
- Cheese ships refrigerated with ice packs, which may thaw in transit.
- Upon arrival, transfer all cheeses to the refrigerator immediately.
- Heat can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 30 days.
- Green Hill (soft-ripened) can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
- Pimento Cheese spread can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 7–10 days.
To Serve
- Remove cheese from the refrigerator 30–45 minutes before serving to allow it to come to room temperature for best flavor.
- Slice and serve on a board, or shred onto tacos, nachos, or queso.
- Layer into a grilled cheese or burger for a melty finish.
Add On Items
- Items ships refrigerated with ice packs, which may thaw in transit.
- Upon arrival, transfer salami to the refrigerator immediately.
- Best enjoyed within 30 days of arrival, or within 7 days of opening. Keep refrigerated.
- Heat – Pasteurized Cow’S Milk, Cultures, Rennet, Sea Salt, Hatch Green Chile (Hatch Chile, Lime Juice, Garlic, Sea Salt), New Mexico Chile, Oregano, Cumin, Garlic, Smoked Spanish Paprika. Contains: Milk.
The South’s Most Honored Artisan Cheese
From O, The Oprah Magazine to Garden & Gun to trade coverage in Grocery Dive, Sweet Grass Dairy has earned recognition across more than a decade of national and regional press.
On TV & Podcast: Food Quest on FYI (Season 2, Ep. 7), Georgia Public Broadcasting's A Fork in the Road, The Southern Fork (Ep. 51)
In Print: O, The Oprah Magazine; Food & Wine ("Georgia's Best Small Food Towns" + pimento cheese feature); Garden & Gun ("Get to Know These Southern Artisan Cheeses" + holiday cheeseboard); Southern Living 2016 Food Awards; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (multiple features); culture: The Word on Cheese (Best Cheeses of the Year 2017 & 2025, "The Peach Cheese Plate," Georgia Gouda launch feature); Grocery Dive and Perishable News
Awards: Flavor of Georgia, Dairy Category Winner (2025); American Cheese Society, World Cheese Awards, and Good Food Awards — 50+ honors across Green Hill, Thomasville Tomme, Asher Blue, and Georgia Gouda; Southern Living 2016 Food Awards; Manufacturer of the Year, Thomasville-Thomas County (2018); Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership Faces of Manufacturing Award (2017); Georgia Small Business Rock Stars (2017)
A Southern creamery with a national reputation — and the hardware to prove it.
The South’s Most Honored Artisan Cheese
Out of Thomasville, Georgia, Sweet Grass Dairy makes some of the most decorated artisan cheese in the American South, led by Green Hill, a luscious double-cream with a soft bloomy rind that has become the creamery's calling card. Jessica Little grew up on a dairy, learning from a mother who helped pioneer artisan cheesemaking in the Southeast; she and her husband Jeremy have spent two decades building on that foundation, earning more than 50 national and international honors from the American Cheese Society, the World Cheese Awards, and the Good Food Awards.
The range runs from Thomasville Tomme, aged 60 to 90 days in the style of a Pyrenees tomme, nutty and smooth, to Asher Blue, creamy enough to convert skeptics, to Georgia Gouda, a 2023 release that swept the major competitions in its first year. Sweet Grass Dairy's Southern cheese is shipped nationwide on Goldbelly, proof the South belongs on any cheese board.
