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ICONIC local butchery, Schultes Meat Tavern at Plainland has officially been declared the maker of Australia’s best bacon at The Australian PorkMark Bacon Awards for Excellence.

Kicking off the inaugural Australian Bacon Week, Paul and Peter Schulte happily accepted the accolade on the back of taking out the competition to become the Regional Sausage King champions with their continental bratwurst recipe.

The brothers took over the family business from their German immigrant father with the butchery enjoying the prestige of consistently providing gourmet taste with premium quality products.

“We pride ourselves on selling high quality, Australian grown meats,” Paul said, adding that receiving the recent awards were a bonus.

“We purchase all of our pigs from Millmerran and process it right here at the Schulte’s abattoir using the same techniques and recipes as our father did more than 50 years ago,” Peter said.

The Awards for Excellence bacon competition was open to butchers and smallgoods processors who make bacon from 100 per cent Australian pork.

More then 40 certified pork processors entered the awards with as many as 62 entries and were judged by two chefs who both have a wide international experience.

APL CEO Andrew Spencer said Bacon Week gives producers an opportunity to educate their consumers about some fantastic Australian quality products.

“Traditional Australian grocery labelling laws are vague, commonly used terms such as ‘Made in Australia’ can be used on products that can contain imported meat,” Andrew said, referring to the distinguishable pink Australian PorkMark.

“To date we have one hundred and twenty one butchers and smallgoods manufacturers Australia wide that are licensed to display the PorkMark logo on their products, which are the finest smallgoods available in Australia.”