Rapt in a brief moment of contemplation, jug of chocolate milk in one hand, plastic double shot glass in the other. Some remarkable chocolate milks, like Reed's, warrant this type of attention.

Once deemed 'out of scope' (for purposes of the chocolate milk project) protein-enriched chocolate milk drinks have now crept into scope, as their popularity and availability have increased significantly in recent times. Many people have asked me how some of the more popular 'recovery' chocolate milks fare from a flavor standpoint-- so I figured I'd do my best to find out.

Quick day trip up to Winnipeg (from Grand Forks, ND) to scope out the chocolate milk scene, hoping to repatriate the spoils..

A few last-minute chocolate milk finds that needed to be sampled just prior to leaving for the airport. This concludes the 24-day visit to Japan, and a 5-month stint in Asia.

A showdown between the best two chocolate milks in Japan-- 7-Eleven Cocoa Milk and Moriyama Ice Chocolat Au Lait. Both are phenomenal, but there can only be one perfect ten. Which will it be?
 

Another big city with small expectations for finding new chocolate milk. Osaka delivered on those expectations, adding only 3 new entries to the list.

A week in Kyoto, and only 2 new chocolate milks that I hadn't seen previously in Japan. That's a lot of searching to yield an average of only 0.29 per day. It's a lovely city, but hopefully Osaka will be more fruitful from a chocolate milk standpoint.

It only makes sense that the world's largest city would have the most chocolate milk, right? Yeah, not really. But Tokyo did have some new kinds that I hadn't seen previously in Japan, including one that I had to force myself to try.

A generic, vending machine chocolate milk and one other supermarket curiosity round out the final night in Sapporo.