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Is The Berkey Creamery Still Open? Food Paradise Update

Food Paradise, Season 1 University Park, Pennsylvania

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Berkey Creamery is listed open on creamery.psu.edu, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The Creamery's website, checked 2026-09-08, carried a 2026 copyright and offered ice cream for order online. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode featured the Berkey Creamery's ice cream, made through Pennsylvania State University's Department of Food Science using milk from the university's own dairy herd, alongside cheese and sherbet produced the same way. According to Wikipedia (revised 2026-08-22), the Creamery was founded in 1865 and is the largest university creamery in the United States, using roughly 4.5 million pounds of milk a year, most of it from a 210-cow herd at the university's Dairy Production Research Center, to produce more than 100 ice cream flavors and about 750,000 hand-dipped cones annually. The operation is based in University Park, Pennsylvania, on Penn State's main campus.

According to creamery.psu.edu, checked 2026-09-08, the site carried a 2026 copyright, offered ice cream for order online through a store and account system, and listed a customer phone line and email for the shop. The page content described the Creamery's role as a working dairy-science teaching operation and retail ice cream shop on campus, matching what appeared on the episode.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 1

Episode 7
Air date not confirmed
Title: Ice Cream Paradise · What was featured: Housemade ice cream and cheese produced by Penn State's food science program
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

Also in Season 1 Food Paradise

Season 1: 85 of 114 still open · 3 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Nearest restaurants By distance from 119, Rodney A. Erickson Food Science Building

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. creamery.psu.edu http://creamery.psu.edu/
  2. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_State_Berkey_Creamery
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Record fp-0054 · checked by Cal Marchetti.