All tagged 8.0

Creamy Meadows Raw Chocolate Milk

Strong, syrupy-sweet punch upfront, followed by the familiar Hershey's cocoa flavor-- it's a lot to take in at once, but you'll quickly acclimate. We've all over-mixed Hershey's syrup into milk, and the sweet-throat-sting that results should bring you back to your formative days of chocolate milk exploration. The texture is nicely smooth and substantial from a creaminess standpoint-- as you'd expect from a raw (non-homogenized, non-pasteurized) base, but the experience is dominated by sweetness to a distracting extent. Don't get me wrong, it's plenty chocolaty and indulgent, but a bit too much where the other features of the milk are a bit drowned out.

Nittany Valley Creamery Chocolate Peanut Butter Milk

The flavor comes on strong, and leans toward the sweeter end of the sweet/salty continuum. I feel that chocolate peanut butter is best represented with a saltier bent, but that's a minor gripe, as this is plenty decadent and delicious. The creamline base pays dividends in extending the flavor more gracefully into the aftertaste than its homogenized cousin could. Plenty to like here- especially if you're looking for a bit more tastebud stimulation than usual.

Nittany Valley Creamery Cookies & Cream Milk

Genuine cookies & cream flavor is best delivered through a creamline milk-- and this executes that very well. It's a sweeter profile (than chocolate milk) overall, and one that is a pleasant addition to the flavored milk lineup of Nittany Valley Creamery. Can't go wrong here- it is what you think it probably is (assuming you've had creamline milk before)- like melted cookies & cream ice cream without the solid bits.

Stoltzfus Family Dairy Mocha Latte Milk

Great balance of coffee and chocolate-- mocha milks nearly always have an overpowering coffee flavor. The creamline body deftly navigates your taste buds, delivering its undersweet, well-balanced flavor competently and evenly-- a refreshingly unique interpretation and execution of the mocha archetype.

Weigel's Ellie's Tracks Milk

Striking flavor-- I would describe it as chocolate-peanut-butter-salted-caramel, with emphasis on 'salted.' Not a bad thing for sure, since it's also very sweet-- the combination…just kinda 'works.' It's smooth, creamy, and drinkable from a texture standpoint, and very punchy on the taste side with all flavors identifiable in a single sip. I must say, I'm still not 100% certain what this is, or who Ellie is, but it's worth the calories. At the risk of a 40+ year-old trying to sound like a 20-year old-- this stuff kinda 'slaps.'

The Sebago House Dairy Raw Chocolate Milk

Chocolaty and sweet upfront, with a secondary pop of flavor in the mid-part of the sip, and concluding with a lithe, creamy finish that carries the cocoa flavor through to the aftertaste. It's a unique cocoa profile that starts and ends on the sweet side-- for me, the gorgeous, raw, silky base is the MVP.

Oakhurst Chocolate Whole Milk (2025)

Feels 'safer' than the earlier 'Premium Chocolate Milk' from Oakhurst-- it's a decent whole chocolate milk that doesn't rock the boat in any particular direction, and is well-balanced and flavorful enough to do its label justice. The cream is there to deliver the cocoa, sugar, and salt-- it doesn't have much to say of its own-- which is expected for a homogenized product. I don't hate it for that-- I don't hate it at all-- it's quite good in isolation, which is more than I can say for myself.

L.P. Bisson & Sons Chocolate Milk

Very different from its raw counterpart-- this has better sweet/salty balance, less cocoa flavor, slightly smoother, and has a prominent vanilla quality that lasts from start to finish. It's nicely unique in terms of what it brings to the table, and ultimately profiles like a vanilla milk. 

Tessier Farm Raw Chocolate Milk

Lightly malty and somewhat understated cocoa flavor that glides effortlessly along the deluge of smooth, creamy, raw milk. Due to the lovely thin viscosity, it distributes evenly and quickly in the mouth-- leaving you ready for more just mere seconds after your latest sip. It's appropriately under-sweet as well, which evokes a more deliberate, mature approach-- perhaps at odds with its relatively quick dissipation. All in all, it's a lovely way to spend a few moments, just be sure to shake it up in between each sip!

McNamara Dairy Chocolate Milk (2025 glass)

Thick and sweet with a prominent, medium cocoa flavor that arrives early and stays late-- with the oft-used 'melted chocolate ice cream' metaphor an appropriate one here. It's got a lot of what your typical chocolate milk fan seeks-- strong sweetness, cocoa prominence, and some textural heft-- its popularity in this area is no surprise.

McNamara Dairy Chocolate Milk (2025 plastic)

Thick and sweet with a prominent, medium cocoa flavor that arrives early and stays late-- with the oft-used 'melted chocolate ice cream' metaphor an appropriate one here. It's got a lot of what your typical chocolate milk fan seeks-- strong sweetness, cocoa prominence, and some textural heft-- its popularity in this area is no surprise.

Contoocook Creamery Chocolate Milk (2025)

Powerfully sweet upfront, and it's a sweetness that lasts through to the end. It carries along a bright, medium cocoa flavor that is well balanced and strong enough to stand out from the sugary base. The sweetness feels heavy-handed, and I suspect that it's more of a 'feautre' than a 'bug' for most people-- but for me it's a tad distracting, as its other features are worthy of more of the limelight. Still, an objectively delicious treat will tickle your sweet tooth to a crying laughter.

The Creamery at Knob Farm Raw Chocolate Milk

Tastes and drinks very much like its pasteurized counterpart-- it's highlighted by a heavy sweetness (first) and a substantial cocoa flavor (second) that peaks early and stays late. The thin viscosity helps to deliver the flavor quickly and fully thorughout the mouth, which may feel a bit overwhelming for those expecting something a bit more subtle.

The Creamery at Knob Farm Cookies & Cream Milk

A uniquely chocolate-forward cookies & cream flavor, which is a pleasant departure from the typical flavor profile-- if I didn't see the label, I would've assumed this was straight up chocolate milk. It's sweeter than it is chocolaty, and that is the prevailing presence in the early and late stages of the sip, with cocoa peaking in the middle.

Alpenrose Swiss Supreme Chocolate Milk

Much more sweet than chocolaty and has a beefy yet accessible 6% base-- which pays dividends in the highly satisfying afterglow. I must say, this is a very unique experience where there's an upfront barrage of sweet, and you think it's going too strongly in the wrong direction, but the cream quickly wrests control of everything else and steers it back on course, leaving you to enjoy a warm, creamy finish for minutes after the sip. 

Le-Ara Farm Cookies & Cream Milk

Tasty and accurate representation of cookies & cream, and certainly the creamline milk more than aids the 'cream' part of the equation, which, in my view, is the more interesting and enjoyable of the two. It's not over sweet, which is a common drawback in flavored milks (C&C in particular), but still feels desserty and worthy of your pursuit if potable cookies & cream is your calling.

Henry Farms of Knox Chocolate Milk

Deliciously creamy-- and that's not only the main focus, but pretty much the only focus. The visuals are fantastic, as is the drinking experience-- it's just lacking a resolute cocoa flavor. What's there is super subtle, and it remains well balanced from a salty/sweet perspective as well, so it's still has a creamy, indulgent feel that you'd expect from a creamline chocolate milk-- just with delicate dusting of chocolate.

Brookshire's Whole Chocolate Milk

Strongly chocolaty and sweet- it drinks thickly but packs a satisfying punch of flavor making the girth seem worth it. In a world of subpar private label chocolate milks, this stuff stands out and dares you not to be satisfied (if not won over) by its competence.

Green Acres Creamery Moo-Caccino

Accurate and well-balanced mocha flavor delivered through a gorgeously creamy base-- I could get used to waking up to this every morning. And having it in the afternoon. Pretty much whenever I guess. If you enjoy the confluence of coffee & cocoa- definitely add this to your bucket list.