Smooth, yet full texture with a sharp malty bite that is pulled off extremely well due its creamy sustain and seemingly self-aware disinclination to linger. I was left wanting more, exacerbated by the fact that I couldn’t easily procure more.
Cream Cup Dairy Chocolate Milk
Cocoa flavor gilded with a feral, buttery cream that very few chocolate milks can achieve, and all should aspire to. Refreshingly simple, perfectly balanced, and deliciously real. Wow!
Moomers Farm Creamery Chocolate Milk
Powerful cocoa upfront that affords the cream time to establish roots in the latter half of the sip— giving you two phases of satisfaction whilst preparing you for the next draw. This is a cycle you won’t want to break— as the cocoa profile is uniquely intoxicating and the non-homogenized base is a welcoming host who truly makes you feel ‘at home’ regardless of your actual surroundings.
Lala Chocolate Low Fat Milk
Nicely punchy flavor that lives up to its attractive aesthetics— too bad most people will never see it outside of its Tetra Pak enclosure. Thin, smooth, and appropriately balanced salty-sweet levers, this is a shelf-stable chocolate milk that would serve as a great punctuation to anyone’s bagged lunch.
Traderspoint Creamery Organic Chocolate Milk
Girthy, but not earthy. Dense, without pretense. On my third version of TPC chocolate milk and I’m clearly flustered, listless, and struggling for adjectives that I haven’t already used to describe this. In short, it’s densely packed with strong, lasting cocoa flavor that you rarely find in drinkable form. The cream’s grassy snap is a confident nod to its roots, and the overall quality feels remarkably congruent with its grounds in Zionsville.
Dandy Breeze Creamery Chocolate Milk
Blissfully smooth and creamy, it warms the heart as much as it does the palate. It drinks like a dream— one of those dreams that when you wake up from it, you immediately try to get back into it. I now lie fully satisfied, reflecting intently on the half gallon container and the 12 minutes it took to render it dry.
Live Real Farms Dairy and Almond Milk Blend Chocolate
Strange upfront sweetness that reminds me of sunblock— which, don’t get me wrong, has a pleasant, coconutty smell— and to an extent, this is how I’d imagine it would taste (though I’m sure it’d be much worse in actuality; please don’t attempt). The texture is consistent, though under-creamy, and the cocoa flavor is trumped by nutty interference and early strong sweetness. I applaud the innovation (50-50 cow/almond milk blend), but wonder if/how this is intended to last beyond a summer fling.
Organic Valley Ultra Chocolate Milk
Refreshingly unsweet, with a heft that would suggest more flavor than it actually carries. There’s a bit of an aftertaste that is a departure from ‘milky’ or ‘chocolaty’ but overall, its focus on cocoa (without a sugary crutch) is unique and honorable.
Cheek Farmstead Creamery Chocolate Milk
Delivers richly strong, mature cocoa flavor with effortless simplicity. Each sip is a wholly satisfying experience complete with a beginning, middle, and end— thus each 16oz bottle is essentially a compendium of short, delicious stories.
Maola Rich Chocolate Reduced Fat Milk
Smooth, relatively-luxurious experience with a nod to malt and a moderate caramel-like sweetness. It drinks quickly and goes down without a fight.
Mt. Crawford Creamery Chocolate Milk
Absolutely divinely creamy-yet-milky-thin base— but it drinks a little too quickly— in part due to the delicious cream flavor, but also due to the fact that you’ll be searching for flavor. If the cocoa were stepped up significantly, this would be among elite company.
Cloverland Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Patently average in most flavor regards, and the texture strays from ‘milky’ in favor of ‘syrupy.’ Chances are, there are better options in your local dairy case.
Windy Ridge Dairy Raw Chocolate Milk
Super-strong cocoa flavor that overpowers most of the rest of the experience— much more of a ‘feature’ than a ‘bug.’ It tastes as bold as it looks, and for anyone curious to try raw chocolate milk, this would be an excellent place to start.
Byler Goat Dairy Chocolate Goat Milk
Gorgeously velveteen creamy base with confident salty/malty punch that will excite your tastebuds and convert even the most goat-phobic friend of yours into a believer and proselytizer of this delicious dairy beverage.
The Reedsville Creamery Cookies 'n Cream Milk
Sweetly true cookies and cream flavor over a perfect base for delivering said experience. As the Brits say “It does what it says on the tin.” Cookies and cream fans: take notice, take heed, and take US-322 over to Reedsville to pick this up.
The Reedsville Creamery Chocolate Milk
Luxurious creamline milk with generous amounts of cocoa flavor, lending itself to a mature, indulgent treat perfect for any occasion. Each sip ends with a buttery kiss (less messy than it reads) which acts as both a ‘thank you’ and ‘you’re welcome’ at the same time.
Moo Echo Dairy Chocolate Milk
Thin, fairly smooth, but marked by a sweetish flavor that is reminiscent of chocolate candy flavor. No complaints with the texture or cream levels, but I actually prefer the flavor of the reduced fat version.
Moo Echo Dairy Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Strongly competent in all categories, a fairly straight-down-the-middle reduced fat chocolate milk. It doesn’t take any risks, nor should it— it’s nice the way it is. The highlights are its stronger than average cocoa flavor and clean finish.
Jackson Farms Chocolate Milk
A chocolate milk that gets everything right- it’s powerfully chocolaty, strongly but appropriately sweet, and built on a delicious foundation of creamy girth that just ‘feels’ right. Anyone who even remotely likes chocolate, milk, or both is sure to LOVE this.
Yoder's Country Market Golden Guernsey Chocolate Milk
Agreeable texture with a slight grassy bite and malty overtone— it’s pleasurable and sneakily indulgent. I found myself drinking it with a more ‘exploratory’ (seeking flavor) than recreational (experiencing flavor) approach. In short, it’s a great base with potential to carry more taste.