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Ohio Is Not the Only Midwestern State With Its Cheesemakers Winning Big at 2025 US Cheese Championship – RedState

Americans are, by and large, a competitive people. We compete on the sportsball fields, we compete in the workplace, and we compete for fun on the weekends; we just like to test ourselves–and our skills– against each other. 





Turns out that cheesemakers compete, too. There is a United States Championship Cheese contest, and in 2025, an Ohio cheesemaker won the overall best cheese award for a lovely, big wheel of Swiss. Whey to go!

An Ohio cheesemaker won the United States Championship Cheese with a 200-pound (90-kilogram) Swiss wheel.

Guggisberg Cheese in Millersburg, Ohio, beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. Out of a possible 100 points, the Swiss wheel scored 98.496 in the final round of judging Thursday.

First runner-up was a brick cheese made by John Pitman of Mill Creek Cheese in Arena, Wisconsin. Their score was 98.389.

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