Camas Cheese Co. opened in August 2024 but has been running for three years, starting during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shop was created by Andy Regan and Tiffany Regan who run the shop Wednesday through Sunday.
The Regans fell in love with Camas through pictures posted online and decided to find a house together three years ago.
“We’ve fallen in love with cheese kind of through our favorite memories of hanging out, creating our charcuterie board and we wanted to share that with this community,” Andy Regan said.
Andy and Tiffany Regan have worked together to develop good relationships with creameries and specific distributors to support more local cheeses and snack food that are seen in their cases and on their shelves. Camas Cheese Co. carries dairy-free and vegan cheese with customers who also want to enjoy a savory treat.
“They’re [dairy-free cheese] made in Portland; two different brands, Frutera and Culture Kindness and they both happen to be cashew-based cheeses but then they have multiple different flavors,” Andy Regan said.
Business for the Camas Cheese Co. has been going very smoothly with tons of support from locals.
“Our best Item so far is a cheese from Holland,” Regan said. “It’s called ‘Ewephoria’ like a sheep. It’s an 18-month-aged sheep’s milk gouda and it tastes kind of like butterscotch, caramel, and a sweet nutty-ness to finish.”
Additionally, Camas Cheese Co. has brought in attention from families of Camas High School (CHS) students.
“There is such a variety of cheese and I felt a bit overwhelmed because there is so much to choose from,” CHS senior Zoe Webster said. “They have multiple choices of smoked Gouda, and that’s my favorite kind of cheese.”
CHS sophomore Natalie Boyd has tried both dairy-free and dairy-based cheese from Camas Cheese Co.
“It was a nice fresh cheese with a perfect blend of savory and spicy,” Boyd said. “I like that there are different varieties of cheese that are made naturally and not processed like cheese from the store.”
“We ended up buying 4 palm-sized chunks of cheese to share with my family and they ended up lasting less than a week until my dad went to buy some more,” Boyd added.
