Creamy base with an almost honey-like sweetness that nicely compliments the cocoa flavor. It drinks effortlessly, yet is satisfying in short sips.
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Byrne Dairy Fair Trade Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Sweetly flavorful with a caramel-escent lilt that gives it a unique profile. Texture-wise, it's a slightly thinner than average yet appropriately milky and competent base. Noticeably more interesting and pleasant than its typical lowfat peers.
Sarris Candies Chocolate Milkshake
Powerfully dense and flavorful, with a tidal wave of upfront sweetness followed by an extremely rewarding and rich chocolaty back end. Honestly, the latter third of the sip is the highlight, and worth weathering the initial sugary storm-- which, don't get me wrong, is indulgent and tasty, just stronger than you may expect from a chocolate milk. In short, it's super interesting, unique, and worth seeking out, particularly if you have a sweet tooth.
Chaney's Dairy Barn Chocolate Milk
This is sure to scratch anyone's itch for delicious whole chocolate milk-- it's thick, creamy, chocolaty, and plenty sweet. It's a bit beefier and more flavorful than the average whole offering, and while not necessarily unique in any one direction, all of its attributes coalesce very naturally, lending to a great overall 'feel.'
Zeal Grass Milk Creamery Chocolate Milk
Thick, creamy texture with a prominent grassy presence, hint of honey sweetness and a back-end Stevia bite. The search for any semblance of cocoa flavor lasted for 3 cups and was ultimately called off. I very much appreciate the texture and wildness factor, but simply put, the flavor falls well short of modest expectations and the choice to use Stevia (despite being a natural sweetener) causes a rather unnatural-feeling and suboptimal-tasting experience. Points for uniqueness though.
Crystal Springs Creamery Chocolate Milk
Powerfully chocolaty in spite of a lighter visage, and the cream, salt, and sweetness levels are tuned to near perfection. This is a chocolate milk that would appeal to everyone, it’s incredibly well rounded, immediately delicious, and wholly satisfying.
Family Express Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Drab, flavorless, and pancake flat; it’s ‘austerity’ in liquid form. Despite a lack of prominent taste, it finishes with a slightly earthy bent, and an annoyingly astringent feel. I’ve had much funkier products, but this one has all the makings of a D+ grade without the excitement of a more abject failure.
FreshStart Farm Chocolate Milk
Absolutely phenomenal on the palate— delivering powerfully grassy Jersey cream and cocoa with an artfully deft restraint on the sweetness lever. It’s bold, beefy, and brave in the best possible sense. I will cry when this bottle is empty. I don’t cry often.
Knueven Creamery Chocolate Milk
Densely flavorful without the cumbersome body— truly a masterpiece that lines up exceedingly well with my personal proclivities. The slightly mature cocoa flavor is delivered through a delicious grassy cream that seeks out your tastebuds with masterful precision and care. It knows it’s good, but refuses to brag.
Prairie Farms Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Creamy, salty, malty, and smooth— not a bad profile for a reduced fat chocolate milk, and while the cocoa piece is largely missing, it’s not too sorely ‘missed’ in this case.
S&D Smith Dairy Chocolate Milk
Luxuriously buttery, excruciatingly flavorful, the absolute pinnacle of what Jersey chocolate milk can and should be! The perfect amount of grass in the cream serves as a constant homage to its origins and the true magic that cows perform in order to convert ‘that’ to ‘this.’ Each sip feels like a gift that I neither earned nor deserved. Pure heaven.
Upstate Farms Milk For Life Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Surprisingly strong pop of flavor upfront, then hampered by a modest stevia-laden aftertaste. There’s a slight cooling sensation throughout, and while the stevia is fairly well cloaked initially, it later induces salivation (reactionary, not anticipatory, to be clear).
Next Generation Creamery Chocolate Milk
Luxuriously creamy throughout, from first contact to lasting afterglow— imparting a delicious medium cocoa flavor on every surface it graces. If all chocolate milk felt as rewarding as this, the world would be a much better place!
Hoover's Dairy Chocolate Milk
Unapolagetically confident in its creamy base and maturely indulgent cocoa flavor— where sweetness plays very much a supporting role and is better for it. It’s dessert-y, and wholly satisfying without the oft-used sugary ‘crutch’— in short, it’s a magnificent way to spend a few bucks, a few hundred calories, and a few precious moments of your life.
7-Select Organic Chocolate Milk
Nicely flavorful and creamy for a reduced-fat chocolate milk. It hits all the requisite notes with competence and fulfills its duty as a slightly premium but worthwhile convenience store dairy case option.
Sheeder Cloverleaf Dairy Chocolate Milk
More malty than chocolaty, but more creamy than malty— a delectably smooth and tasty experience that concludes with a grassy, salty caress. Not sure if that conjures the right imagery, but it’s what came to mind.
Braums A2 Chocolate Milk
Same deliciously unique flavor of the original (non-A2) Braum’s, featuring a powerful cocoa punch, hefty body, and commendable under-sweetness that affords a toasted marshmallow flavor without the sugar rush.
Rasband Dairy Chocolate Milk
Smoothly creamy, and features more cocoa flavor than sweetness or salt. It feels simple, yet manages to nail the essence of what good chocolate milk should be.
Cass-Clay Swiss Chocolate Milk
Remarkably chocolaty to the extent that its reduced fat base feels maximally leveraged— delivering a solidly indulgent, plenty sweet, and abundantly flavorful experience. A higher fat content would have likely spiked the max flavor and sustained it for longer, but as it is, I’m not complaining.
Prairie Farms Chocolate Malt Milk
Sharply and confidently malty, and I applaud the commitment to that end. It’s decidedly unique and pulls off its charter with panache. There’s no lack of salty or sweet, it’s a punch in the face, albeit a well-intentioned one. Bravo.