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Central Wedge Cheese Shop

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Your local destination for Pennsylvania artisan cheese and thoughtfully curated local foods.

Discover exceptional flavors, learn about the makers behind them, and taste something new with every visit.

10/18/2026

Fall adventures don’t all require hiking boots. Some just need a cheese knife. 🍂🧀

These seven seasonal cheeses from six Pennsylvania cheesemakers are an invitation to try something beyond your usual wedge. Each is available at Central Wedge for a limited time!

Not sure which one you’d enjoy? Tell me about a cheese you already love. We’ll use that as our starting point—whether you’re feeling a little adventurous or ready for something completely different.

Then grab some crackers, slice an apple, and invite someone to taste along. Finding a new favorite is even more fun when you have someone to compare notes with.

Take a look through the photos—which cheese would you try first?

10/16/2026

Looks like pumpkin pie. Eats like a warm, homemade dinner!

October’s Pumpkin Onion Quiche at The Cracked Pot Coffee Shop brings the savory side of pumpkin to the table—with quark from Pleasant Lane Farms!

Quark is a fresh, creamy cheese, and this is one delicious way to get acquainted. We love seeing Pennsylvania cheese become part of something special through our partnership with Cracked Pot.

Try a slice at their Mechanicsburg or Carlisle location through the end of October.

Inspired to cook with quark yourself? Pick some up at Central Wedge—we’re happy to help you get started.

10/11/2026

Curious about our Spell Jar Bar event, but wondering what you'll actually do?

You don’t need to be crafty—or know a single spell—to enjoy this night. ✨

To make your spell jar, you’ll move through a series of craft stations at your own pace:
🔮 Choose an intention: protection, abundance, confidence, or love and friendship.
🌿 Layer dried herbs and flowers into your mini jar.
💎 Add your selection of beautiful gem chips
🎀 Finish with a charm and cord to make it yours.

We’ll have each herb, spice, and crystal labeled with their symbolic meaning and we'll be there with a helping hand whenever you need one.

Between chatting and crafting, help yourself to our Witch’s Grazing Board, featuring Pennsylvania cheeses and charcuterie.

Come with a friend, make it a date, or enjoy a little time for yourself. You’ll leave with a personal keepsake and an evening that involved more than scrolling your phone.

📅 Friday, October 23
🕔 Arrive anytime from 5–7:30 p.m.; crafting ends at 8.
⏳ Allow 30–40 minutes to make your jar, plus time to graze.
✨ $40 includes one spell jar, all materials, guidance, and the Witch’s Grazing Board.
📍 Central Wedge Cheese Shop · 25 W High Street, Carlisle

Part of downtown Carlisle’s Spellbound festivities. Costumes welcome, experience unnecessary!

10/10/2026

VENDOR SPOTLIGHT!

🧀 Something delicious is joining the spooky festivities—welcome Central Wedge Cheese Shop to the All Hallows Eve Market of Magick!

Combining a background in agriculture, food, and communications, this Carlisle shop curates Pennsylvania cheeses from artisan, farmstead, and specialty cheesemakers.

Shop cheese wedges alongside locally made favorites like hard pretzels, mustards, beef snack sticks, flavored nuts, and crackers—or grab a cheese sampler or snack pack to fuel your market adventures!

Stop by for a little edible magick, because even witches can’t live on candy alone! 🎃🖤

10/09/2026

Happy National Moldy Cheese Day! 🧀 Yes, we have a holiday for that.

And that beautiful brie rind? Part of the recipe.

Mold is a type of fungus. Cheesemakers cultivate specific edible molds to create the white rind on Brie and Camembert and the veins in blue cheese, helping develop their flavor and texture. That mold belongs there!

Their enzymes break down proteins and fats as cheese ripens, developing creamy textures, distinctive aromas, and flavors from mushroomy to wonderfully bold. A bloomy rind also helps protect the cheese from drying out.

And yes—the intended white rind on Brie and Camembert and the blue veins in blue cheese are safe to eat for most people. Have a mold allergy? Check with your allergist before trying mold-ripened cheese.

Curious but unsure where to start? Come ask us for a gentle introduction. You don’t have to love the strongest cheeses to find one you enjoy.

10/07/2026

Quark. It's a funny name that draws a lot of questions. It's also a very good reason to make toast. 🧀

Meet this fresh, creamy, gently tangy cheese from Pleasant Lane Farms. It's made in small batches with milk from their own cows in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. It's basically a German-style cream cheese.

So yes, you can make cheesecake with it. Or spread it on toast with apple butter, add honey and fruit, or stir in herbs for an easy savory dip. An unfamiliar cheese can fit right into the things you already love eating.

Come ask for a taste at Central Wedge. We’ll help you figure out what to do with your second spoonful. 😉

10/04/2026

Make a little magic with us this spooky season!

Find Central Wedge at Fall Furnace Fest and All Hallow’s Eve Market of Magick, or join us at the shop for a Spell Jar Bar with a Witch’s Grazing Board. 🎃🧀

Check out our October calendar and plan your visit!

10/01/2026

It’s International Coffee Day, and naturally, we found a way to make it about cheese.

Meet Cowboy Coffee from Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy: a rich, nutty goat-and-cow’s-milk cheese, aged six months and hand-rubbed with Commonplace Coffee’s espresso.

Yes, that dark rind is coffee. Two makers, one delicious reason to get curious.

Coffee on cheese sound a little unexpected? Come ask for a taste. You don’t have to know whether you’ll like it before you try it.

09/29/2026

Good cheese should not be anonymous.

Behind every Pennsylvania cheese at Central Wedge is a person making choices about milk, cultures, time, texture, and flavor. This week, meet the Lovener Family of Goat Rodeo Farm and Dairy.

While Goat Rodeo started as a hobby goat farm, owners India and Steve quickly became award winning cheesemakers. For more than 10 years, they have been making small batch, artisan goat and cows milk cheese using carefully selected cultures, with the help of their son Will and his family.

When you know who made your food—and why they made it that way—the cheese becomes more than an ingredient. It becomes a place and a story you can put on the table.

Visit us to taste their unique cheeses!

09/27/2026

💀edit: MEET RIB-ECCA AND CURD COBAIN!

🧀 WE HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU.
Our window skeletons have moved in for spooky season, but there’s one small problem: they don’t have names.

So naturally, we’re putting this very serious responsibility in your hands.

Vote for your favorite by reacting to this post:
👍 Ribecca
❤️ Bone-a Lisa
🥰 Boney McBrie-face
😂 Captain Jack Marrow
😮 Albert Spinestine
😢 Curd Cobain

The TWO names with the most votes will officially become the names of our bony new residents.

Choose wisely. Their identities, dignity, and entire afterlives are depending on you.

Voting will close on Wednesday, September 30th at 6pm. 💀 You can vote in person on Wednesday as well. Two winners will be chosen randomly from those who vote to receive a block of Jack o' Lantern cheese!

Address

25 W High Street
Carlisle, PA
17013

Opening Hours

Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+17174225010

Website

https://centralwedgecheese.com/

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