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The Price of Delicious Butter

3/7/2016

As you are all well aware of, the price of butter shot up around last years holidays and then in to the new year. Sorry. There are some simple reasons for this.
First, the price of cream coming to us went very high due to supply and demand. The demand for milk and cream goes very high at the holidays and the supply can diminish according to the market and need. Secondly, the Hope creamery is a small operation and we don't have the buying power of larger operations. Third, we are a small batch manufacturer that is very unique to the market and our costa are higher then your average factory turning out millions of pounds of butter every week.
All this said, we are starting to see the price of cream trending down and we hope to decrease the price accordingly. As a small manufacturer, you can only imagine the cost of doing business, especially in a fast paced, changing business climate and we use a churn from 1949. Crazy but fun.
Thank you to the loyalty you have all shown to us and to the many fans of the Hope Creamery. To you, we salute you!
Tim

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Good morning butter lovers!

4/12/2015

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What a beautiful morning it is. I believe it is true when people say,"This is why I live in Minnesota, summer." I live here because I like Minnesota, being born and raised here. Anyway, how about butter? Isn't it good and good for you? Yes it is.

As the sales manager of the Hope Creamery, I would like to start out by thanking all our customers for their unwavering support over the years. We are humbled and honored to count so many people as Hope Butter enthusiasts. We could not have carried on without that support and love of Hope Butter. As a food sales person for a number of years, I have always chosen products to sell that I believe in. I wouldn't encourage a person to buy something that I would not eat or use myself. For my first blog, lets talk about what many people ask me throughout my journeys; what makes your butter different than others?

First and foremost, we make butter fresh weekly. We never inventory butter. we never freeze our product. We use an age old business model; we make butter, we sell butter and then we make more butter. Please don't tell anyone our secret.

As you can see in the pictures on our website, we use a churn from the 40's, a process that few creameries use today. Because of our small batch capabilities, we can allow the butter to set up and bring out the natural flavor and texture of fresh, homemade butter. If you have never tried the product, try it and see for yourself. There is a difference in taste, texture and baking applications that can truly enhance your eating pleasures.

I will keep the blog short for today. My hope is to write once a week and to find new and interesting facts about butter, cooking and baking. Thank you again for your continued support of the Hope Creamery and if you have any questions for me, my contact information is on the website and I would be happy to answer any inquiries.

For now, be well, eat more butter and be happy.
Tim

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The Cost of Butter

12/25/2014

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Did you know that it takes 12 pounds (or about 1.5 gallons) of whole milk to make a gallon of ice cream? Now, how much would you pay for a gallon of ice cream? It takes just over 21 pounds (or about 2.5 gallons) to make a pound of butter. It seems to me that a gallon of ice cream should be cheaper than a pound of butter--since it uses less milk, right? Wrong.

At Coburn's Delivers a gallon of Kemps Ice Cream is $8.99, a pound of Hope Butter is $5.99 and a gallon of Kemps Whole Milk is $4.19. Now lets do the math...

Ice Cream takes 1.5 gal of milk. 1.5 gal x $4.19 = $6.28. Cost in store = $8.99
> Leaving room for production and other ingredients. Seems fair.

Hope Butter takes 2.5 gal of milk. 2.5 x $4.19 = $10.47. Cost at store = $5.99
> Wow! Butter is a steal! How do they do that?

I know you can get some butter cheaper, but let's face it -- it's cheaper butter, coming from factory cows and an automated butter factory. Ours comes from local cows from local farmers and made by our butter maker Gene. Buying local supports the local economy. Oh, and have we mentioned the taste?

As one woman put it (unsolicited on the Hope Creamery Facebook Page):

This is, swear on a stack of bibles, the best butter I have ever eaten. I swoon when I put this butter on homemade bread. Seriously. I swoon.

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The Price of Delicious Butter

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