All tagged A2 Milk
Significant 'cooked milk' taste that peaks early but pervades throughout the sip, atop a light, malty cocoa flavor and competent but unremarkable 2% body. Not bad for what you can get out of a UHT box, but quite average within the full spectrum of chocolate milks.
Gorgeously well-balanced with a salty uprfont hit that sets the tone early for the delicous deluge that is about to follow. The cocoa flavor is prominent and slightly on the darker side of the continuum-- it's not overly sweet or candified, and comes across as an indulgently creamy treat that lasts well into the aftertaste.
Brilliantly thin and creamy texture that shines from initial sip to lasting aftergolw, carrying a lightly malty cocoa flavor along for the blissful ride. Sweetness is very much in a supporting role and doesn't distract from the creamy deluge, tasteful cocoa accent, and subtle grassy lilt on the back end. A raw chocolate milk with depth and class.
Delicious, well-balanced C&C flavor that is neither cartoonish nor painfully oversweet-- a common affliction in the genre. This is a more mature approach, where accuracy and subtlety meld with its creamline base. Firsts are rare for me nowadays-- and this is the first raw, all-Guernsey, A2/A2 cookies & cream milk I've ever had, and I'm better for it.
Smooth and true mocha milk experience, with coffee and cocoa in delicate balance (one usually dominates the other). It's lithe and goes down quickly-- I'm already starting to feel a warm caffeine buzz radiate from behind my solar plexus. An enjoyable start to anyone's morning.
Beefy, starchy, chalky, and thankfully somewhat bland. The sweetener is fortunately less-aggressive than its sibling and while the chocolate flavor is entirely absent-- it's blander, and somehow more enjoyable for it. Texture-wise, this is a bad matchup for me-- the drying/chalkiness grinds your mouth to a screeching halt, you will feel like you could light a match off your tongue. Or really any surface that this stuff comes in contact with. I've had much worse tasting things in this genre, but the physical drinking experience of this is bottom-tier. Yuck.
Exceedingly thin cocoa presence, and very little flavor outside of the cloying, unnatural-feeling spike you get from the monk fruit juice concentrate (natural sweetener). The strange sweetness twang dominates the experience and remains into the aftertaste, paired with a textural astringency that plays chalkier than it should on the palate. I appreciate that it's lactose free, A2 beta casein protein, gluten free, lower sugar, higher protein-- but the flavor and drinking experience is severely lacking in the 'enjoyment' measures.
Beefy and delicious creamline body that carries a bright, modeslty earthy cocoa flavor across the palate and into a brief but enjoyable aftertaste. The salty/sweet balance feels right and the only thing to gripe about is the fact that the bottle isn't bottomless.
Confident upfront saltiness sets the tone for a modeslty grassy onslaught of creamy goodness to which many aspire, but few attain. The medium-to-malty cocoa flavor pops in the latter half of the sip, tapers slowly amidst the buttery afterglow, before finally exiting like a gracious houseguest-- leaving you wanting more. So buy more than you think you need.
Alas-- mocha milk done right! It's well-balanced with both a cocoa and coffee presence, and a sweet/salty ratio appropriately in favor of the latter. The base is still very much milky (as it should be) rather than a watered-down, washed out caricature of what mocha often is. I am a coffee drinker and coffee lover, and I would gladly replace my morning cup of joe with this stuff.
An upfront salty hit pops the warm creaminess that continues shine throughout, escorting the malty cocoa flavor everywhere it needs to go. There's a fully-burdened velveteen texture and a uniqueness to the experience, which has real cachet with someone who has had nearly 1,800 different chocolate milks to this point. Overall, an extremely well conceived and executed drinkable dessert.
Deliciously well balanced and strong flavor that leads with a salty-sweet-malty cocoa punch that fades swiftly but leaves you with a warm, creamy coating and a lustful desire for the next sip. It's thinner than many of its peers, affording it a bit more alacrity on the palate-- making sure all of your tastebuds are engaged, aroused, and beyond satisfied.
Refreshingly undersweet and profiles more like a vanilla milk than anything else. It's very enjoyable, and doubtless the best white chocolate milk I've ever had. I love the smooth, unencumbered viscosity that does its job well with minimal baggage save for a slight astringency on the back end. All in all, a fun way to spend a few minutes and a few hundred cals.
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.
The rare, non-homogenous 2% body is by far its strongest attribute, and, well-- perhaps its only distinguishable attribute. While I appreciate the thin, creamier-than-it-should-be milky base, it could shoulder a ton more flavor than it is tasked with. Minnesota is known for relatively bland palates, and aside from a light stationery flavor (think licking a greeting card-- kinda satisfying, I know)-- it's difficult to locate much of a cocoa flavor at all. I want it to be there. I want to like this more than I do. I want to like myself more than I do. I identify with this chocolate milk: only modestly above average on its best day.
[Milk was turning sour at no fault of Ideal Dairy Farms— will re-review at my next opportunity to buy it]
Nicely straightforward cookies & cream flavor without any of the cartoonish qualities that typically plague the genre. It starts off sweet and then rounds out with an accurate cookie flavor that carries you into the aftertaste that is well-supported and extended by its luxuriously creamy base.
Impressively undersweet and thus focused on the cocoa and cream experience, both of which are well executed and substantial feeling. Uniqueness has cachet with me, and the sweet/salty balance-- decidedly in favor of the latter-- further pops the cream flavor in the back-end of the sip, leaving you satisfied, mildly introspective, and ultimately ready for another sip without the inclination to rush.
Neat combination of sharply salty/malty with a heavily creamy girth to it. Usually 'malty' cocoa flavor tends to be on the lighter side, but this carries a much more amped-up taste and finishes with a resolutely salty pinch and dusting of grit on the tongue. Damn fine stuff.
Leads with cocoa-- a strong, sourish / mature cocoa flavor seizes your tastebuds right away and takes you on a uniquely tasty journey that ends with a clean aftertaste, ultimately whetting your palate for another draw. Both under-sweet and under-salty, it's well balanced and affords the chocolate flavor the lion's share of the limelight. The only chocolate milk I've seen to date that has 'butter' as an ingredient-- I can't pick it out per-se, but bonus point for the novelty!
