Powerfully creamy experience highlighted by a delectable sweet Jersey cream and choco-malt flavor. A drinking experience like this underscores exactly why creamline Jersey milk should be what chocolate milks aspire to be.
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Havens Down Home Creamery Chocolate Milk
Absolutely crushes the 'thin-viscosity-to-infinitely-creamy' ratio that I enjoy so much-- this is the kind of base that dreams are made of. Warm, buttery Jersey cream gilds every surface that it comes in contact with, delivering a slightly malty chocolate flavor and a tsunami of pleasure that I'd happily drown in.
Lean Body Chocolate Protein Shake
Oddly undersweet at first sip, until a wave of phony, cloying sweetness rushes to the 'rescue' in the latter third of the sip. Admittedly, it wrests your attention away from the thick, chalky sludgy texture. It looks chocolaty, but that doesn't translate to the drinking experience much at all-- as bad as this is, I've had significantly worse. It's not face-twisting awful, which is the best thing I can say about it.
Mayfield Dairy Farms Chocolate Milk
Sweeter and more overtly flavorful than its previous TruMoo port. However, the corn syrup ages poorly both over the course of the sip as well as over the course of the fridge storage. It drinks smoothly, but feels a bit candified-- if you like a syrupy-sweet chocolate milk, give this a try.
SE Grocers Naturally Better Organic Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Satisfying experience with a cocoa-focus, and a saltiness that does its best to leverage the 2% base. This seems to be the standard template of reduced fat organic chocolate milk that shares many brands/labels and is becoming ubiquitous. I'm not complaining.
Maple Hill Organic Reduced Sugar Chocolate Milk
Bold and brave-- an unapologetically un-sweet chocolate milk that shines the spotlight on cocoa and buttery, grassy, salty cream (even at 2% reduced fat). The result is a shockingly focused treat that is adequately sweet in isolation, but is likely to be off-putting to the casual consumer seeking a quick, sweet fix. I'm seriously impressed.
Pleasant View Dairy Chocolate Milk
Thick, yet smooth, with more of a light malty flavor instead of cocoa. I drank quite a bit of it in search of an additional flavor dimension, but it remained straightforward and enjoyable in its simplicity.
Dutch Farms Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Smooth and super bland, and whatever flavor exists is washed away forthwith, leaving you puzzled, unsatisfied, and remorseful now that you have the rest of the gallon to deal with.
MOO-ville Creamery A2 Chocolate Milk
A warm descent into cocoa-creaminess rewards the mouth and soul in equal proportions, and causes you to seriously question past chocolate milk choices without making you feel bad about them.
Crooked Creek Farm Dairy Chocolate Milk
Indulgently substantial and rewarding with a bright cocoa flavor upfront that is ushered gracefully all the way to (and through) the exit. Doesn't rely on sugary misdirection or other gimmickry; it's quite the pleasure to sip slowly while meandering down a country road.
Quality Dairy Chocolate Milk
The cocoa profile is uniquely sour and 'wheaty' in my estimation, neither of which to an off-putting extent, but readily noticeable. Its body is sweet, beefy, and up to the task of distributing its flavor to where it needs to go. In short, it's both sweet and sour, and if that combination tickles your fancy, make your way over to QD.
Cook's Farm Dairy Chocolate Milk
Thinner than expected (a nice surprise) and more than adequately creamy to deliver a medium cocoa flavor that crescendos in strength in the second half of the sip. It's a delicious arrangement of flavor and texture, unmistakably chocolaty and milky-- it is what you think it is, just likely a notch or two better than you're used to.
Kroger CarbMaster
Searing upfront sweetness that may be a welcome palate assault for the hardcore carb-averse, but for everyone else, this is much more likely to offend than satisfy. The cocoa flavor is strong enough to poke through for a quick cameo, and its fat-starved, artificially-thickened base is less concerning than the sweetener concoction which, un-chased, will continue to devalue your oral real estate.
The Creamery Chocolate Milk
Sweet, cooked milk flavor that leans 'caramel-like' and is accentuated by a salty pop toward the back end which helps to mitigate the sugary rush. The box does a disservice to its beautiful light brown color (at least the straw is clear); in short, it's rather adept for a shelf-stable, reduced fat chocolate milk.
McDonald's Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Strong but fleeting pop of cocoa flavor upfront, but soon degenerates to a drab blandness and acute astringency. It peaks way early, and the undersweetness, while appreciated, doesn't allow for any other quality to rise to prominence. The aftertaste worsens with each passing moment, causing you to scramble around for a cold french fry remnant or any other edible mass to curb the ensuing misery.
Friendly Farms Protein + Chocolate Milk
More creamy and chocolaty than sweet-- a pleasant ratio in that regard. Texture-wise, there's a drying, chalky finish with significant legs that outlasts the prematurely-exiting cream, leaving the overall score teetering on the very edge of mediocrity.
O Organics Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Refreshingly under-sweet, yet surprisingly creamy and delicious for 1% lowfat. Chocolate is the focus, and the experience feels forthright and true from initial sip to pensive repose. Strong example of how sweetness should play a supporting (not leading) role.
FreshStart Farm Chocolate Peanut Butter Milk
Wow- a warm hug on a chilly day-- this is exactly what you need, and you don't want it to end. The proportions of chocolate, peanut butter, sweetness, and salt are in perfect harmony, and accentuated by a deliciously creamy and buttery base-- this is a rare treat that you won't soon forget.
La Colombe Draft Chocolate Milk
Surprisingly well-represented dark chocolate flavor over a paper-thin base that is quickly overmatched and incapable of doing the cocoa justice. Each sip imparts a warming sensation in the mouth that may precipitate salivation to clear it away. The packaging is gorgeous, the flavor unique, and the execution ultimately strays from 'indulgence' and instead leans toward 'interesting novelty that I don't need to have again.'
Premier Protein Chocolate
Sludgy, chalky, and vitamin-y tasting-- this would serve well as a meal replacement as it rather efficiently curbs the appetite. It's not face-twistingly bad, but rather predictable in its fortified flavor and clotted body. You deserve much better regardless of whether you just finished a crossfit workout or a large pizza.