The traditional cheese plate in Bavaria is thick cuts of bergkäse ("mountain cheese") and dark rye bread, and cuts of smoked ham or pickles.

Bavarian cheese is a product of the Roman Empire, like most of the famous cheeses of the world.  The Romans did not invent cheese, but they instituted the methods that would pave the way for the most famous cheeses of the world.  What separates Bavarian cheeses, or, high mountain cheeses of the northern alps, from other cheeses, is climate: these cheeses didn't need the high salt content of cheeses from the warmer weather of Southern Europe.

An Alpen cheese, then, is less about salt, and more about the taste of the plants ingested by the cheese-producing animal.  Bergkäse has a nutty, rich flavor.  It is mild but with a nice complexity that fits a good beer well.

A European fromager by trade, Montclair left his post at a fine urban Fromagerie later in life, for what he called The Constellation Gallia.

Although history has buried Montclair's actual nationality, we know, based on his imaginary journals in English and French, that he was, as a man and a traveler, entirely a product of the Enlightenment.

Montclair's Constellation Gallia was itself an Enlightenment allegory.  What he meant is that he saw each cheese-producing town as a bright light, like a star.  And so, looking down on the Old World, you would see the brightest stars of the constellation as places like the Pyrenées, Savoie, or Emilia-Romagna, where production of the world’s finest cheeses is concentrated.

Montclair's window of opportunity to enter into Bavaria would have been around the year 1925. 

As a child of the age of the Enlightenment, Montclair would have been very conscious of the German contribution to the age that created the modern world.  Although the Enlightenment's earliest ideas sifted throughout Western Europe and New England, its earliest shoots were German. Today, we see Immanuel Kant as the instigator of this age of reason. 

Kant questioned darker ages with simple words:

“All that is required for this Enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters. But I hear people clamor on all sides: Don't argue! The officer says: Don't argue, drill! The tax collector: Don't argue, pay! The pastor: Don't argue, believe!"