Highland meat, beer and the biggest cheese? (5,4)

'highland' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'meat beer and the biggest cheese?' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'ham' (ham is a kind of meat).
'beer' becomes 'ale' (type of beer).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'the biggest cheese?' becomes 'alp' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ham'+'ale'='hamale'
'hamale' after 'alp' is 'ALPHA MALE'.

Can you help me to learn more?