The fantastically smooth and creamy texture delivers a solid, medium cocoa flavor that fades gracefully into a sustained rapture. The consistency is a definite strong point, as it’s not unobtrusively thick like some Jersey-based milks can be.
All tagged 8.5
Promised Land Dairy Midnight Chocolate Whole Milk
Deliciously buttery and chocolaty— a dessert-worthy chocolate milk available in most U.S. states. It’s very sweet as well, but the other flavors are well enough amped up such that it doesn’t feel out of place.
Giant Eagle Chocolate Milk
Excellent chocolate-malt flavor with a snap of salt that ties it up neatly. The cocoa flavor is true, it’s easy to drink, and even easier to want more.
Guernsey Farms Dairy Chocolate Milk (plastic)
Delicious much in the same way as the cartoned version, but lacking the salty punch of its counterpart (probably only detectable in a side-by-side comparison). A fine addition to anyone’s grocery order, even in the quality-rich Michigan chocolate milk scene.
Country Dairy Dutch Chocolate Milk
Impressive duality of sweet cream and sour cocoa that melds together seamlessly, providing an indulgently chocolaty experience from start to finish.
Oberweis Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Generously chocolaty flavor that marches confidently into the aftertaste; it’s rich without being extravagant.
Oberweis Dairy Chocolate Milk
Light, yet indulgent feel— mainly due to the powerfully true cocoa flavor that graces each mouthful. All other flavors are in excellent proportion to support the delivery of chocolate with minimal distraction. Sounds complicated, but feels effortless.
Sassy Cow Creamery Chocolate Milk
Plenty flavorful and richly creamy, with a sweet cocoa flavor approaching the ‘candy’ end of the spectrum and finishes with a satisfyingly salty, mildly chalky conclusion.
Anderson Erickson Chocolate Milk
Sweeter, creamier, saltier, chocolaty-er… and more indulgent than its reduced fat counterpart, there's a lot to like here.
Gossner Foods Chocolate Milk
Hugely creamy, almost to a buttery extent— and that somehow both overshadows (in a good way) and enhances (in a good way) the remainder of the experience. Its cream-to-viscosity ratio is stellar, as you’re not overburdened with thickness, yet still rewarded with a luxurious creamy flavor.
Summerfield Classic Chocolate Milk
Well-balanced, creamy, chocolaty, sweet, gorgeous aesthetics— everything you want in a chocolate milk. It settles quickly, but that shouldn’t be an issue, as you won’t want to set it down until you’ve emptied the glass.
Country Delite Really Chocolate Milk
Plenty of flavor packed into a fairly dense medium, but it’s sweet, salty, chocolaty, creamy, and indulgent.
Homestead Creamery Chocolate Milk
Malty, creamy, salty, and super-drinkable. Your mouth will wonder what it did to deserve this, and your stomach will churn at the mere thought of your next sampling of mass-produced, low fat swill.
Sheldon Creek Dairy Chocolate Milk
Fantastically creamy, less-sweet, and an almost yogurt-y sour twinge that is unique and welcomed. Mature flavor that manages to feel indulgent despite having nearly half the sugar of most other chocolate milks.
Auchan Lait Entier Chocolat Sans Lactose
Deliciously creamy and malty with a lovely salty bow that neatly ties up each sip as though it’s presenting your esophagus with a little gift.
Kakaomaelk Cocoa
A brilliant concoction perfectly demonstrating how cocoa, sweetness, saltiness, and cream can be delivered from just 3 simple ingredients. I had the misfortune of busting a bottle on a Pimlico sidewalk, but found solace in knowing that a colony of ants will have its collective mind blown.
Chocomel Dark
Excellently satisfying dark cocoa taste that is neither bitter nor muddled with any other flavors competing for attention. It tastes as good as it looks; I just wish this were more common throughout Europe.
Q-Meieriene Fersk Sjokolade Melk
Excellent creamy taste that stands out but doesn’t usurp control from the other flavors. The texture smooth and authentically milky feeling (which should be a given, but isn’t). There’s legitimacy to the “Norges Beste!” claim on the package.
Kambaku Power Coccao
A remarkable drink in many respects-- it has a unique ingredient list (including caffeine and marula fruit puree) and also an unusual nutritional profile (4.1g fat, 5.7g protein, 163mg calcium per 100mL). The taste is creamy, decently chocolaty, and has a tiny hint of Bailey’s Irish Cream flavor. All in all, one to remember, and one to seek out if you’re in the Vienna area.
Kukkonia Kakao
Phenomenal texture-- thin, yet creamy— and prominent cocoa flavor that is toward (but not fully in) the darker/sour/mature end of the continuum. I want to sip this slowly from a champagne glass, but I can’t seem to get the ‘slowly’ part down; this is almost too easily drinkable.