Banner Butter Local Gift Guide 2015

Our Atlanta Holiday Gift Guide is here! We’ve rounded up some of our favorite local products made by some of our favorite local makers for this year’s Banner Butter Local Gift Guide. Big Daddy Biscuits These are pawsitively wonderful. 7.5 oz. bag of Farm-to-Table dog...

The Right NYE Champagne for Butter Lovers

image: Nik ArthurPost by our friend Manjula deSilva, wine buyer and educator. In 15 or so years of being in the wine business I’ve never been asked that question. But then, I only just met Drew McBath. Our encounter started off innocuously enough – he was looking for...

Reclaiming Tradition :: Part III

In Part II, our owner, Drew, talked about our culturing process.  If you missed it, you can read more here. III. Our Churning and Working Process Both big brand sweet cream and cultured butters typically use large continuous churns that suck in cream at one end and...

Reclaiming Tradition :: Part II

In Part I, our owner, Drew, talked about the carefully selected cream that then becomes our butter.  If you missed it, you can read more here. II. Our Culturing Process 99.9% of the butter you can buy in the store today in North America is made from sweet cream.  That...

Reclaiming Tradition :: Part I

This blog post is coming from Drew McBath, our owner, founder, and master butter maker.   Banner’s production kitchen can be really lonely at 5:30am.  But hey, preparing and culturing heavy cream for the next day’s churning and packaging session in the wee hours...

A Peek Inside

We love this photo that Sweet Peach Blog snapped of what’s inside of our taste testing boxes.

Taste and Test

We’re soliciting feedback from chefs and food writers in Atlanta to help us finalize our cultured butter recipe. We’ve made our first delivery to Restaurant Eugene.  Thanks, Jason and crew! 

Spice Up Your Life

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.”Julia Child photo credit: Whitney Ott

Zest for Life

Lemon zest for our Lemon Mustard Chive butter.     This butter adds the perfect touch to a beautiful filet of fish, a batch of roasted veggies, or a simple piece of bread.  To see more pairing suggestions, see “Our Butters” at the top of the page, or go...

Croissant Anyone?

Ratio Bakeshop (www.ratiobakeshop.com) cooked up this beauty using our cultured butter, and it was DELICIOUS! 

Fresh Buttermilk

Fresh buttermilk from our churning this weekend.  Stay tuned to see what we do with it…

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Pairing Suggestions

Pairing Suggestions

We get a lot of questions about how to use our butters and what to use them with. Here are some pairing suggestions that we think you will love. For recipes that we make with our butters, check the archive section. We would love to hear any fun recipes you come up...

Our Churn has Arrived!

This will make us the only naturally cultured butter makers in the entire Southeast. Get ready for our churning point…