Thicker and a bit creamier than the lactose-containing version, but still the pleasant cocoa flavor and balance that you would expect. Lactose intolerant folks have been well taken care of here.
Nom Kakao Milch
Smooth, well balanced, very drinkable all-purpose chocolate milk. Nothing particularly stands out, but is enjoyable nonetheless.
Madeta Lipanek Cokoladovy
Worlds apart from the shelf-stable version— this one is very sweet and milky tasting; chocolate is wholly absent.
Candia Candy Up Cokolada
Sweet and earthy— not my preferred framing of a chocolate milk. It feels inauthentic as a result, and might have you checking if milk is the first ingredient (or if this is one of those water-based chocolate ‘drinks’).
Tatra Pikao Drink
Incredibly sweet and sour at the same time, making this a memorable experience regardless of my opinion. Both qualities are too far in their respective directions, clouding the chocolaty, indulgent experience that this has the potential to be.
Nestle Nesquik Shake
Sludgy, way over-emulsified, and an off flavor that (in part) is due to cinnamon. It’s definitely sweet, nastily thick, and neither indulgent nor what you expect when seeking a chocolate milkshake experience.
Madeta Lipanek Kakao
Nicely undersweet, good consistency, but as much ‘wheaty’ flavor as cocoa.
MaxSport Protein Shake Chocolate
Your tongue will immediately react with a “WTF!”— and your hand will soon get the message and set the drink down. Despite pleasant aesthetics and texture, the stevia taste will contort your face in ways you didn't think possible.
Milky Up
Beautiful coloration that is so brown that it’s almost red, and it looks and feels ‘milky’ (coincidence?). The cocoa flavor is slightly on the candy side of the continuum, perhaps amplified by the heavy-handed sweetness. All things considered, though, it’s average, yet memorable.
Hochwald Eisschoko (500mL)
Great visuals offset by a unique, funky taste that brings about a slight cooling sensation (perhaps that’s intentional?). It almost tastes like some kind of weird sweetened coffee with menthol in it.
Tatra Kravik Kakaovy
The hockey-playing cow on the package is definitely the high point. It’s less-sweet (no issues there) but has a strong sour and boozy twang that is an unwelcome departure from the chocolate you expect.
Milk In Kefirove Mleko Coko
100% unconsumable. Smells like vinegar, drinks like rotten salad dressing (provided salad dressing can rot)— way worse than I remember when I first had* it 5 years ago. *Had = took one sip, thinking it was chocolate milk, and spewed it all over Prague’s lovely Old Town streets. To be fair, it’s some kind of fermented kefir drink, but “Milk In,” “Mléko čoko,” the cow and chocolate graphics on the outside might be enough to fool someone into thinking it's chocolate milk.
Meggle Active Protein Cokolada
Chalky, grainy, and terrible flavor that is closer to anise (black licorice) than cocoa. I’ve had a lot of protein-enriched chocolate milks in recent months, and most are more palatable than this.
Tip Schoko Drink (Low Fat)
Strange flavor that most wouldn’t slap the ‘chocolate’ label onto. Decent texture and milky feel, but a sour flavor approaching that is more in the ‘rum’ direction than that of cocoa.
Tip Schoko Drink (Whole)
Good texture and creamy flavor but the underlying flavor that the cream supports is more wet-cardboard than luscious chocolate. A dash or two more of salt would certainly help to ameliorate the issue.
real,- Quality Frische Schoko-Milch
Beautiful to watch it cascade out of the bottle and into a glass-- but the aesthetics set a high bar that is hard to live up to. In short, it’s got punchy flavor but way too heavy on the sweetness end. The first sip is a nice surprise, but the 4th and 5th are a bit much.
Bauer Schoko Protein Drink
Seems like a contradiction in terms, but this is SO memorably bland. It tastes like nothing at all— not water, not air, but maybe like plain 1% milk, without the ‘milk’ flavor though (whatever that is). Almost always, these protein drinks have some sort of weird flavor, sweetener, texture, etc.— but not this one. Four years ago, in Berlin (for my birthday) we did the float tank (Float Berlin); this is the drinkable version of sensory deprivation.
Kaufland Milkshake Schoko
Very reminiscent of the American Style Milkshake from Netto— candylike chocolate flavor in a super-emulsified texture that feels unnatural. There’s no salt quotient at all (which is essential in a milkshake) so it just goes way too far in the sweet/thick direction.
Kaufland Laktosefrei Chocolate Flavored Milk Drink
Sweet and salty, though the sweetness feels forced and does not mesh well with the rest of the product. I’ve certainly had worse, but there are a lot of better lactose free options out there.
Kaufland Drink Mit Kakao
Water-thin and marked by an earthy/wheaty unpleasantness. Not recommended.