Hol Ysteri (Hol Cheese Factory)
In the store there is a heavy larch
table made out of a 130 year old tree
from Ål Prestegård. Here you can sit
down and enjoy a cup of coffee and
an oat biscuit with their tasty white
or brown goat cheese.
Hol cheese factory is a family
business run by Reidar and Kjersti
Stenberg with family, they are 3rd
and 4 generation cheese makers. In
addition to making Prestholt goat
cheese at Prestholt 1242 msl they
have made their cheese factory in
Hol. Here they make the excellent
Leirgrøv white goat cheese. While
their brown goat cheese are made
at their summer mountain farm
Prestholt 1242 msl. Since 1990. In adi-
tion they sell goat meat (kid meat),
spekepølse which is a kind of cured
sausage or salami and the exciting
FjellGodt (Mountain Candy) choco-
lates. You will find their products in
their store.
Prestholt brown goat cheese won
gold the National Championchip
of local made diary products in 2015
and gold in the National Champion-
chip for Farm cheese in 2016. Che-
esemaking requires patience, even
though making the cheese does not
take too long, you will not know the
result until it is 3 months stored, and
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then you can taste it, but it should
be stored at least 6 months before it
is ready for sale.
With Hol cheese factory and Prest-
holt goat cheese, the Stenberg
family have taken an important part
of the national cultural heritage and
summer mountain farming, which
earlier was an important part of
the selv-sufficiency in Norway, and
made it into a living. The family
develops new products and are plan-
ning a kitchen in their store, which
will give them the opportunity to
produce other products for sale.
They are cooperating with othe local
food producers and in their store
you can find products from Rueslåt-
ten Cheese factory; different types
of cheese made out of cow milk. You
can purchase meat from old nor-
wegian Spel-sheep from Bergheim.
A cooperation of cheese making
with the summer mountain farms
Hamarsbøen and Gurostølen that
makes white cheese. You can also
find other local food products from
other places in Hallingdal, Numedal
and more.
PHOTO: EMILE HOLBA
The cheese factory is
located 3,5 kilometers
away from Hagafoss.
Take route 50 from
Hagafoss and turn
on to Ålmannvegen/
Nerolsgutu in the
center of Hol.
Visit the store and cheese factory in Hol. Walking into the store
with burned rustic planking surrounded by local food, sheep
fur and a view into the cheese factory and the cheese storage
room where the cheese slowly matures.
You can also find their
products at Spar Geilo,
Matkrok’n Geilo, at
the farmers market in
Oslo, Drammen, and
Kongsberg.
Here is a list over our local
food producers that you should visit:
Rueslåtten Ysteri
Hol Ysteri
Herlig AS
Bardøla Høyfjellshotell, Sofias Cafe og Bar
Matkrok’n Delikatesse & Catering
SPAR
EKTE restaurant og smakeri
Restaurant Hallingstuene
Lokalmatkassen
Geilomat
PHOTO: EMILE HOLBA
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