Pure Irish grass-fed butter
Golden butter, from Irish grass
Made with milk from Irish cows grazed on grass almost all year round — the source of that unmistakable golden colour and rich, creamy taste. Made by people who care, for people who care.
Why Kerrygold
Five things that have never changed
There is no clever trick to Kerrygold, which is a slightly awkward thing to admit on a homepage. We take milk from Irish cows that spend most of the year outdoors eating grass, churn the cream into butter, salt it, and wrap it in gold foil. That has been the arrangement since 1961, and the arrangement is the product.
Everything below follows from the field: the colour, the taste, the way it behaves in your pastry and in your pan, and the 14,000 farming families who own the co-operative behind it.
Why it's golden
Grass, almost all year
Our cows graze outdoors up to 300 days a year. That pasture is where the deep golden colour and the rich, creamy taste come from.
Our co-operative
Owned by 14,000 families
Kerrygold belongs to a co-operative of Irish family farms. Quality and animal welfare are personal matters here, not corporate policy handed down.
Nothing to hide
Short, honest ingredient lists
Our Butter with Olive Oil uses just four ingredients. Nothing goes into the block that a farmhouse kitchen wouldn't recognise.
Since 1962
Sixty years, same way
We arrived in Britain in 1962 and still churn butter the way we did then. Long practice, and very little interference.
Cooks and bakers
Trusted in real kitchens
High butterfat and low water make a measurable difference in pastry and in the pan. Backed by hundreds of tested recipes.
14,000 family farms. 300 days at grass. Since 1961.
Independently audited on animal welfare, milk quality and land stewardship — by standards our own farmers set and are measured against in their own yards.
200g & 500g blocks, 250g tub
Pure Irish Salted Butter
The original. Deep gold, properly salted, and the standard every other butter in the fridge gets quietly measured against.
200g block
Pure Irish Unsalted Butter
For bakers who season their own. The same grass-fed cream, no added salt, so you control the balance in pastry and buttercream.
400g tub
Kerrygold Spreadable
Irish butter blended with rapeseed oil so it spreads straight from the fridge. Butter taste, no torn toast, no waiting around.
180g natural
Kerrygold Cream Cheese
Made with Irish milk and cream. Clean, mild and thick enough to hold its own on a bagel or in a proper baked cheesecake.
The gold foil and green sash have barely changed since the brand launched in Britain in 1962.
Wrapping butter in gold was the brave bit
In the early sixties, butter in Britain came in greaseproof paper and was priced as a commodity. Wrapping ours in gold foil was a deliberate signal that this was something you chose rather than something you defaulted to.
It also happened to be true. The butter genuinely was richer and more golden, because the cows genuinely were out on grass — and both of those things are still the case.
I've tested every block on the market and I keep coming back. It's the water content — there's simply less of it, so the laminating stays clean and the layers lift properly. In a busy bakery that reliability is worth more than anything else.
Head Baker, Coppinger Row Bakehouse, Dublin
