Creamy finish to a medium-sweet, medium-cocoa drink. Slightly thinner than Hornbacher’s (though identical ingredients) but a lot less chocolaty.
All tagged 5.5
Byrne Dairy World Famous Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Exceedingly sweet, almost burns your throat. Lots of flavor, so it's a memorable experience, just way too heavy on the sugar pedal.
Lactaid 1% Chocolate Milk
Decent amount of cocoa, salt, cream, and sweetness— well rounded. The sweetness is slightly on the syrupy side, but overall it fits together decently.
Pittsford Farms Dairy Chocolate Milk
Very unique cocoa taste that borders on malty/chalky/powdery. It’s not off-putting, just different from what you might expect. There’s a bit of a grain to it as well, which reinforces the powdery quality to the chocolate taste.
Baren Marke Alpenfrischer Kakao
Can't cite much improvement over the UHT version, though it seems to taste better (perhaps due to the colder temperature). Ultimately, I’d have to have them side-by-side to assess a difference. Well rounded.
Demeter Schrozberger Milchbauern Kakao Vollmilch
Very nicely smooth texture and strikingly light color. The taste has a grain component to it (not the texture) that is maybe 60% wheat and 40% malt. I cannot taste cocoa, but the overall experience is still pretty good.
Milbona Schoko Drink
Less sweet and more creamy than Milbona Lisas Schoko Mix, and still quite enjoyable but lacking the punchier flavor that the other version had.
Gutes Land Schoko Drink
Creamy and smooth, with a subtle chocolate flavor. Very similar to Ja! Schoko-Drink and a few others that have very similar ingredient profiles. Wasn’t able to sample them side-by-side, but overall quite similar.
Berchtesgadener Land Bio Schokomilch
Pleasant malty quality to the flavor, and the salt/sugar balance definitely favors the former. Cocoa flavor is hard to pick out among the malt and salt, but it's a nice departure from expectations.
Milfina Schoko-Drink (Low Fat)
No pleasantly sour note as was found in the whole version, but this has a good amount of flavor on its own, especially for being a low-fat option. The extremely smooth texture delivers a well-rounded flavor profile.
Schärdinger Kakao
Seemingly the same exact product as Tirol Milch Kakao; in this case there is no discernible difference.
Tirol Milch Kakao
Chalk (first) and cream (second) are the dominant players here, not particularly sweet or chocolaty, slightly sour note, but overall a decently drinkable product.
Banania
Has a choco-banana flavor that is not as heavy-handed as I had expected. When tried alongside other chocolate milks, the banana part stands out, but on its own, it’s not as easy to tell. Decently tasty drink with a slightly thinner than average texture but some (fine) particulates. Technically this is out of scope, but what the heck.
Candia Candy Up Chocolaté
Super smooth and thin texture, accompanied by a decent cocoa flavor and sweet/salty balance. Only a slight tang (in the back of the throat and sides of tongue) mars the otherwise tasty and drinkable milk.
Eroski Batido De Cacao
Exceptionally chalky with a low amount of sweetness that actually works to its advantage. The cocoa flavor maybe a bit more acidic than I initially expected, but remained consistent throughout and by the end it was not an issue. My first thought was ‘tomato’ when I took a small sip— but that proved to be fleeting.
Pascual Batido De Chocolate
Less sweetness helps the cocoa flavor come out in this case. Thinner than Puleva and better/truer overall flavor. Some chalkiness, as with many of the other boxed milks but still decent start to finish.
Ucal Zero Lactose Leite Com Chocolate
Overall similar qualities to the other Ucal products but has a noticeable aftertaste just a tad on the sour side.
Parmalat Leite Com Chocolate
Very smooth texture, predominant taste is sweetness, not cocoa. It separates quickly in a glass, and requires a mixup. Slight ‘mineraly’ or metallic quality to the aftertaste hinders any further upside.
Marks & Spencer Chocolate Milkshake With Belgian Chocolate Chips
Chocolate chips have a ‘melty’ quality to them but they are not particularly flavorful, unlike the chips in Mr. Sherick’s. Not nearly as ‘worth’ the calories as Mr. Sherick’s either. Very filling.
Waitrose Chocolate Flavoured Milk
Flavorful and chalky- the thickness holds it back (for my tastes). Chocolate flavor is also a bit on the ‘British’ side, but still pretty good.