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Decadent raw, Golden Guernsey cream flavor adorned with a uniquely vanilla-gilded cocoa flavor that warms the soul like post-shoveling hot chocolate on a snow day. There's a confident sophistication about it-- simple ingredients but layered flavor, and an absolute pleasure to take in small sips-- each one a tiny little gift. Can't say enough about the indulgent texture and lasting flavor it leaves behind.
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.
A paint-by-numbers lowfat chocolate milk with just enough saltiness to add a façade of dimensionality, before it hastily washes away. Average in most respects, just downslope of the bell curve peak, surely gazing down at what might have been were you born somewhere else.
Powerfully sweet and chocolaty, with a dense thickness that epitomizes that 'chocolate-milk-as-melted-chocolate-ice-cream' paradigm. If you have tastebuds, this will find them, and work them out Jack LaLanne style, until you're doubled over and pining for bland food. The heavy-handed sweetness is tempered a bit by a significant salty presence that comes through in the latter third of the sip. This is amped-up, and a fun ride while it lasts.
Like an angry sumo wrestler-- girthy, well-balanced, and a tad salty. This very much fits a chocolate milk ideal that many hold dear-- its creamy, beefy base does its part to carry a punchy, heavy cocoa flavor across your facial threshold. The sweet and salty components vow for supremacy in a bit of a shoving match, and the salt comes out on top, which nicely accentuates the cream flavor in the home stretch. Grappler-metaphors aside, this is an indulgent treat where a little goes a long way, and a lot goes...well... a lot goes wrong if you drink too much (and you'll want to! :).
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.
Sweet chocolate flavor nearly dips into 'candified' territory, as it lacks a stronger salty presence to help balance it out. It drinks quickly, thanks to its silky raw base that flows downhill like it's got somewhere to be. Attractive visuals definitely draw the eye when looking in the dairy case-- I like it, but could love it with a reigned-in sweetness and darker, more mature chocolate hit.
Smooth and nicely balanced from a flavor standpoint-- the cocoa is prominent, sweet, and tasty, and there's enough of a salty snap to curb any aftertaste shenanigans. Texture-wise, it's got a solid body for 2%, and it feels appropriate and capable of delivering a well-rounded, reduced-fat experience.
Delicious creamy, raw body that carries a lightly malty cocoa flavor with minimal sweetness to detract from the experience. It's confidently under-sweet, and once the cocoa flavor fades, the true star of the show is revealed-- a delicious, dare-I-say buttery back end, with a grassy homage to its roots in the aftertaste. It might not be as 'sexy' to you as it reads here, and sure, it could easily shoulder a heavier cocoa presence, but that can develop over time. This isn't dating material, it's marriage material.
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!
Sweet and chocolaty (more chocolate cake than chocolate ice cream(!)) upfront in equal proportions, fortunately the delectably creamy, raw base is up to the task of shouldering the burden and ushering it confidently across your palate, ending in a summarily grassy repose. It's bold, striking, and slightly wild on the back end (my favorite part). A unique drinking experience that ages well, both in terms of the aftertaste and lasting memory.
From texture to cocoa to cream flavor to sweet/salty balance to the gorgeous visuals-- this squarely strikes every note with an assertive brilliance and yet somehow still manages to be greater than the sum of its parts. Not only the best raw chocolate milk I've had thus far, but one of the very best I've had in recent memory. And I have a pretty good memory.
Decidedly average in nearly all facets, this is the dairy version of the straight-line-for-a-mouth-emoji. It's unoffensive, unobtrusive, unimaginative, uninspired. There's a slight astringency to the finish that probably makes it feel a tad chalky, but you have to be looking for it to notice. I suspect most people drinking this aren't searching for something deeper in each sip. I gave up after about 4 myself.
Undersweet for the genre, and a unique flavor that seems destined to nail the 'cream' part of the Oreo, without much of the 'cookie' part. The more I have it, the more I like, in part due to its thinly creamy base that flushes down my gullet with relative alacrity-- and the taste is starting to grow on me. Might take the whole quart before I can truly appreciate this stuff, or perhaps it's just pleasantly smooth and rather demure from a flavor standpoint.
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.
Powerful, mature, desserty cocoa flavor that glides atop a grassfed, creamline base-- delivering indulgence quickly and evenly, leaving no flavor receptors unstimulated. The grassy finish to each sip is a bonus, and adds punctuation at the end of each flavorful draw. Fans of thickness beware-- this stuff won't clog a drain, but it might be just what you need to ditch the chocolate milk-should-be-thick paradigm for good.
Simply delectable-- this aligns with so much of what I seek out in a chooclate milk. Thin viscosity to high creaminess ratio, a sweet/salty balance prominently in favor of the latter, a punchy-yet-mature cocoa flavor that shines throughout-- due to (and not in spite of) its supporting cast. The creamline body gilds whatever it comes into contact with: lips, tongue, soul-- and imparts a meaningful and lasting cocoa presence that transcends what it should be capable of in physical form. Ok, I'm getting a little flowery here, but doing my best to capture the aphorisms that swirl through as our biologies combine to form something greater than the sum our our individual parts.
Gorgeous from initial eye contact through to warm afterglow. Its unique and slightly earthy cocoa flavor combine with an organic creamline base to deliver an exceptional drinking experience that is meant to be savored, not swilled. Casual chocolate milk fans may lack the nuance (or desire) to give this the attention that it deserves. A wholly-satisfying experience that is highly congruent with Vermont's commitment to quality, locally-sourced agriproducts.
