Highly sweet and accurate caramel flavor— fans of a caramel/chocolate mix should be put on notice. It’s dense, but has a pleasing feel and though the flavor is cranked up to peak levels, it remains enjoyable in moderation.
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Hershey's Double Chocolate Milk Shake
Wow— tons of flavor in every category! The thick, but very supportive base unfortunately outperforms its cocoa flavor— which is intense, but carries a boozy note that honestly tastes like it was spiked with alcohol. If this quality were less prominent (or gone altogether)— this would elevate the score significantly.
Mr. Big Chocolate Milkshake
Incredibly strong wafer-ish flavor that borders on ‘popcorn butter’— packed into one of the sweetest drinks you will ever consume. The onslaught of flavor will cause your mouth to salivate and your pancreas to spew insulin like a busted water main.
Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Milk (Canada)
Relatively bland and boring— more sweetness than any other quality and feels empty during and after each swallow. It’s smooth and milky enough such that it doesn’t feel unnatural, just uninteresting.
Sealtest Chocolate Dairy Beverage No Sugar Added
The Splenda taste is immediately recognizable (if you’re familiar with it) and it adequately sweetens the otherwise cardboard-y flavor. The aftertaste has an acidic bent that reminds me (only slightly) of the post-vomit stuff that you continue to spit out before the initial ‘rinse’.
Neilson Fat Free Chocolate Milk
Sweet, but empty— with just a hint of ‘wheaty’ flavor toward the back end. The more I try it, the more I want something else.
Neilson Chocolate Milk
Smooth, sweet, and otherwise rather quotidian. A decent all-purpose chocolate milk that will satisfy in a pinch.
Sealtest Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk
Slightly bolder cocoa flavor than average, and a thin viscosity / smooth texture doesn't get in the way of its delivery. It would benefit from a stronger cream presence, but you can only do so much with 1% milk fat.
Neilson Chocolate Milk 25% Less Sugar
Surprising that it's only 25% less sugar, and not 100% less-- as there’s startlingly low sweetness, especially when sampled after normal chocolate milk. It manages to avoid tasting bitter, however, it avoids tasting like much of anything at all. Not offensive, but feels rather pointless.
Neilson Trutaste Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Rather powdery in a way that becomes more egregious once the liquid portion washes away. You're left with a virtual sand dune in your mouth that eventually grips your uvula, causing spontaneous (but manageable) glottal mucous production. The flavor is much less offensive and doesn’t rely too heavily on sweetness.
Organic Meadow Chocolate Milk
Thin, yet creamy and buttery. Downplayed sweetness allows the mature (and initially muted) cocoa presence to leave a lasting impression, along with a slab of chalk for good measure. Deliciously unique!
Harmony Organic Chocolate Milk (1L carton)
Excellent creamy quality that the cocoa flavor unfortunately cannot live up to. I convinced myself that I tasted chocolate because I wanted to like it more than I actually did. On my second cup now, and while getting a pleasant maltiness, I also detect a slight rum-like flavor that I can't shake since having identified it.
Lactantia Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Its best attribute is the thin and smooth texture that make it quickly drinkable, though you may wonder for a second what you just swallowed. Not because it carries a flavor that is ponder-worthy, not because it's alarming, just that it’s on the bland side: far from awful, far from inspiring.
Selection Chocolate Milk
Powdery feel straight away, and a decidedly boring sweet milky flavor that is light on cocoa and salt.
Saputo Crispy Crunch Chocolate Milkshake
I was expecting some sort of ‘crispy’ aggregate suspended in the milk, but instead I guess it’s an attempt to emulate a crunchy toffee bar(?). It does deliver sufficiently on that but it's a bit too sweet for me, and the toffee experience is not one that is enhanced through flavored milk, in my view. Still flavorful enough to be considered average despite the drawbacks.
Nestle Rolo Milk Shake
Wow- I wasn't prepared for the ambush of flavor that this would wreak on my buds. It's sweet as heck, akin to drinking caramel straight from the Rolo factory spigot; a pretty indulgent feeling experience that was executed well.
Nestle Nesquik Less Sugar Chocolate Milk
Has that signature Nesquik flavor, which is easier to appreciate with less sweetness. The texture is chalky and grainy, expect lots of particulates to stick to the inside of the glass (though most will siphon it straight from the box). Not a bad lower-sugar option.
Dairyland Chocolate Partly Skimmed Milk
Bland and uninteresting, but not offensive. Doesn’t take too many chances, and neither should you— buy something else.
Dairyland Chocolate Partly Skimmed Milk 25% Less Sugar
Definitely not sweet and has a wheaty taste reminiscent of one of those grain-based breakfast-replacement concoctions. The taste isn’t nasty, just not what ‘chocolate milk’ should be.
Dairyland Chocolate Milk Beverage (946mL carton)
Much more noticeable malt quotient than the rest of the Dairyland portfolio, and it’s more prominent than the chocolate for sure. Averagely sweet and creamy and a lot else is straight down the middle.