When I did my post on my favorite butter sources, I mentioned Kerrygold butter. It is a butter that we have been using for years. I knew it was superior to most butters in the stores. I found that it made everything taste better that I used it with-It makes a wonderful pastry dough, by the way- and was superior for your health. But I was told that it was only partly grass fed. Happily, I was misinformed. I didn’t know all of the details, and now I am even more excited about it!
Molly O’Loughlin left a message on my post, giving a more detailed description of Kerrygold butter.
We are so delighted that to hear that you enjoy Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter! We thought we should just add a few bits of additional information for you that you may find useful.
Kerrygold dairy products are made from the freshest milk of grass fed cows. While others are now rediscovering the benefits of grass feeding cows, the Irish have never wavered, recognizing that cows are natural ruminants and grass is their natural diet.
Today, most of the milk from Ireland’s small dairy farms go to local co-ops, where milk is collected, then sent on to be made into butter and cheeses.
Milk is entirely from grass-fed cows (from Ireland’s green lush pastures) and only summer milk is used to produce Kerrygold butter.
Kerrygold produces two different types of butter for the US: a salted sweeet cream butter (gold foil) and unsalted lactic/cultured butter (sliver foil).
In addition, we have developed a webiste specifically for the US consumer. The link is www.kerrygold.com/usa if you would like to use that instead.
(bold, mine)
So not only is it completely grass fed, but it the butter is made from the more superior milk (from the summer milk). That’s exciting! The other great thing about Kerrygold is that it is widely available.
I can get it the cheapest at Trader Joe’s, but you can also find it at health food stores, specialty stores and even regular grocery stores. You often will find it, not with the other butter, but with the imported cheeses. For a very short while, Costco (Sam’s Club) carried it. It was a huge bummer when they stopped. But you can get Kerrygold cheese there for a very good price.
I also didn’t realize that their unsalted butter was cultured. That’s good to know (though I have to admit that I really like their salted one the best).
The only thing I wish? That I was an affiliate for Kerrygold……I would gladly back this product!
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Oh, how exciting! I clicked on their link and it is sold at a chain that I actually have in my town! Woohoo! Love it! Now I’ll have to go check and see if they actually HAVE it. Hoping, hoping!
I went back to the previous butter post to see if there was info on there about specific prices, but there wasn’t. Keeping in mind that prices vary quite a bit across regions, I was wondering if you could give us an idea of the price KerryGold sells for?
Oh man, I LOVE this butter. My FIL and I give it to each other as gifts for Christmas and birthdays because we are huge butter fans.
Brianna,
It is definitely more expensive, so prepare yourself.
I think at Trader Joe’s I pay around 2.75 for half a pound. It can be up to 3.50 at other places. But when we were in California, I noticed that food was a bit cheaper, so who knows how much you will have to pay for it.
But, in my opinion, it is SO worth it. But, yes, sometimes we have to watch how much butter we use in recipes, etc, to fit it in our budget.
I hope you are able to find it!
I already love butter. I’ll have to see if I can find some of this to try. Thanks for all the info.
Thanks so much for this information! Kerrygold is now my default when I don’t have access to good local butter. Trader Joe’s seems to carry it for pretty cheap. I made ghee with it a couple weeks ago and it was wonderful.
Sarah Jones,
I am so glad that you enjoy it!
I also love ghee made from it. It is definitely the best tasting kind I have made.
I just discovered Kerrygold butter at one of my local grocery stores, right in the imported cheese section, like you said. It’s $4.89 for 8 oz., but it’s so fantastic, it is definitely worth it! Sometimes to get by, I use Organic Valley butter for cooking with, but I always at least reserve the Kerrygold for direct application on bread/toast, baked potatoes, or whatever else you’d put butter on. Just a few tablespoons a day is a great supplement for your health.
I forgot to mention that I live in eastern Washington. I wish I could find it here for $3.50, let alone $2.75!
Jess,
I am so glad that you have been able to find it and enjoy it! It’s to bad you can’t find it cheaper though. Do you not have a Trader Joe’s near you?
But it is good, isn’t it.
This is great – My husband travels to London frequently, and started bringing back various butters for us to try. We settled on the Kerrygold as our favorite for flavor and cooking properties. (Also good is Anchor from New Zealand). At some point, his schedule had kept him away from UK long enough that we ran out. So I went to the grocery and bought our former standard, LandOLakes. It was terrible! Had no flavor whatsoever, and burned the instant it hit the pan. I have since found that Texas’ Falfurrias butter is an acceptable substitute, but we have been pretty careful not to run out of Kerrygold since! We also give it as presents to our neighbors, LOL.
DivaKitty,
An fyi on the Texas’ Falfurrias butter. It is no longer made there. The history of the dairy there, in 1909, goes to a settler who built the largest herd of Jersey Cow in the US at that time. The dairy has been sold to some corporate, commercial dairy, so don’t be fooled into thinking you are getting a pure, high quality butter. The current dairy corportation is just using the name. The dairy no longer exists in Falfurria, Tx.
Que puedp preparar con la leche kerrygold
Kerrygold butter and Dubliner cheese is back at Costco! I was told that it’s only during the St. Patrick’s Day season, so hurry. They don’t have unsalted, but at that price I’m buying and freezing them for everyday table use.
I am a huge fan of this butter. When my local Safeway has it on sale I buy at least 3 of them and but them in a ziploc freezer bag. KerryGold butter is the best butter I have ever tasted.
Trader Joe’s brand organic salted butter (at least at my local stores) says the cows they use feed on green pasture on the box. I got some Kerrygold cultured unsalted butter and will compare taste as soon as I finish TJ’s butter.
This is a very interesting thread. I’m a chef who is part of a three year grant studing grass fed dairy products in wisconsin. I have been searching for any information and recipes using grass fed butter. The taste and texture is incredible. There seems to be more and more popping up, pastureland out of Minnesota is another 100% grass fed. I would be interesting in anyones experience in cooking with it. It is a bit of a shame to hide it in things, but we just made some killer cookies. Pastry doughs and brioche is this weeks experiments.
Jack
Hi Kimi,
Is it better, healthwise/nutritionally, to eat sweet cream butter (salted/gold) or lactic/cultured butter (unsalted/silver)? I’m not worried about the salt aspect. Thanks! And please post if you find Kerrygold back at Costco!
~M
Costco has the salted/gold Kerrygold in Chicago for $7.49 for 24 oz. yay! I’m going to store it in my freezer (is there any reason not to?…I did this with regular butter). Thanks for the tip!
I visited Ireland last year. I brought a lot of Kerrygold back with me (I was living in Portugal at the time – so the flight was short). We love it. It’s so cheap there. I forget what I paid. But, I think it was equal to $2.75-$3.00 for one pound. And, some of the other, local brands, were even less expensive, and they make their butter the same way. What lucky residents of Ireland!
I did find it at Costco last week. I paid about $7 for 1.5 pounds. I didn’t see unsalted, however. I did notice that Kansas City’s Wild Oat’s market has it and I think I may have saw unsalted. I’ll have to grab more next time I’m out that way. Thanks for this post on it!
Kerrygold isn’t from Ireland, I hate to tell you. If you look at the EU stamp on the back, its from a dairy in France. I tried to get an answer out of the company handling it here in the US, but no one would return my call. Enjoy your French butter.
I don’t care where the damn cows live, it is the best butter out there. Caveat: you will find yourself getting out of bed at night snitching a tablespoon of the stuff. Your cardiologist will admonish you, the scales will punish you. But, if you want to make the best hollandaise you’ve ever had, use the Kerrygold. I’m headed for the 3rd circle of hell anyway.