Slightly earthy, and otherwise exceedingly average in all respects. It certainly doesn't stand out in a flight of chocolate milks, but occasionally there’s something to be said for getting exactly what you expect.
All tagged High Calcium
Crystal Cool Cow Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Syrupy sweetness that bleeds into the texture as well, morphing it into a sticky, sugary concoction that should reside closer to the candy aisle than the dairy case.
Sunnyside Farms Lactose Free Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Much more ‘milky’ feeling than the low fat (lactose-containing) version. The flavor is also much more in line with what you would expect and likely prefer— amply chocolaty with a kiss of malt.
SlimFast Original Creamy Milk Chocolate
‘Chalky’ can still be ‘milky’— but not in this case. It feels a bit unnatural, and carries a fortified undertone throughout. It’s more watery than creamy, and its best feature is that it’s not abjectly awful tasting.
Trappist Dairy Hi-Calcium Chocolate Milk
Richly chocolaty in a mature, slightly under-sweet way. The strong cocoa is delivered through a chalky, yet still milky-feeling medium that does its job well. This wouldn’t look out of place in glass— be it on a supermarket shelf, or stemware at home.
Kowloon Dairy Deluxe Chocolate Slimilk
Awesomely chocolaty, supported well by all other factors that clearly understand their place in the hierarchy. Worthy of the ‘deluxe’ billing, it wields a dessert-like indulgence, in spite of remarkably low monetary and caloric investments.
Kowloon Dairy Hi-Calcium Chocolate Slimilk (carton)
Well-executed chocolate malt flavor that goes down with blissful facility. It satisfies without being clingy in the afterglow.
Kowloon Dairy Hi-Calcium Chocolate Slimilk
Well-executed chocolate malt flavor that goes down with blissful facility. It satisfies without being clingy in the afterglow.
Vita Hi-Calcium Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Simple cocoa taste paired with a light sweetness that does well to limit its foreground exposure. A slight sense of ‘powder’ haunts the texture, conjuring industrial imagery rather than the idyllic farmlands we hold in reverie.
Anlene Chocolate
Labelling this as ‘chocolate' is a definite stretch. It tastes more like a bland latte that sat in a paper cup for 48 hours. Sadly, I’ve had that experience, and am forced to relive it here.
F&N Daisy Chocolate Milk
More chocolaty than sweet, which I appreciate, though the grainy and cream-deficient texture drag the score just below the meniscus of mediocrity.
Greenfields Choco Malt Milk
The more I have, the more I like it. Great ratio of cream/salt/sweet/malt— not necessarily in that order, but it just feels like it belongs together, as though it comes naturally in this form. It makes good on the claims of ‘chocolate’ and ‘malt’; a rare product that gets the balance just right.
Meiji High Protein Chocolate Milk
Thick and chalky— akin to the fluid they make you drink before a colonoscopy (so I’ve heard). Drinking this whole bottle may be equally as unpleasant (as the procedure, not the prep fluid).
F&N Magnolia Low Fat Hi Cal Chocolate Milk
Powdery feel, and truly lacks a salty aspect that would complete each sip. It’s chocolaty enough, but it’s the drying sensation you get after swallowing that causes you to seek out another sip, not the flavor.
Rokeby Farms Whole Protein Dutch Chocolate Breakfast Smoothie
Rather bland, with a somewhat artificial bent to the sweetness (though it does not contain artificial sweeteners). Otherwise, it's fairly bland and unobtrusive, does a nice job of hiding the fortification (tastewise), but could use some salt to add another needed flavor dimension.
Origina Dairy Chocolate Milk
Thin and smooth with a noticeable malty quality that doesn’t linger. It’s not watery, but very thin and the flavor doesn’t stick around for very long. I’ve definitely had far worse things come out of a pouch.
Marigold HL Chocolate Milk
Tastes like a chocolate popsicle that had been lurking in the back of the freezer for months past its ‘sell-by’ curfew. You know the kind— it’s covered in icy particles, which, due to the lack of other options, you give a cursory brush-off before thrusting the pop into your warm piehole in a vulgar act of misguided desperation. This chocolate milk embodies that experience.
Straus Family Creamery Organic Chocolate Milk
Wow— super strong cocoa flavor, paired with a mature, undersweet sourness that delivers a haymaker of deliciousness! It offers what I desire most in chocolate milk exceedingly well— creaminess unencumbered by viscosity, brilliantly indulgent and punchy mature cocoa flavor, and a unique had-nearly-one-thousand-chocolate-milks-but-nothing-quite-like-this factor that puts this into rarefied orbit for me.
Great Value Ultra-Pasteurized Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Smooth and fairly malty— a notch ‘milkier’ and better than the standard gallon jug 1% chocolate milk. It’s pale color sets up the expectation of weak cocoa flavor, which turns out not to be as egregious as it looks.
Fit & Active Weight Loss Shake Chocolate
Gritty texture and slightly metallic flavor, but behind all that is an above average tasting fortified drink. The chocolate flavor is definitely present and becomes more prominent the more you get used to the undesirables.