Its noticeable density comes with a bit of a flavor pop above what you expect; certainly more enjoyable than the previous version that I’ve had a few years ago.
All tagged 6.0
Horizon Organic Lowfat Chocolate Milk (50% more cocoa)
Noticeably more chocolaty with a pleasant back-end grassiness to the cream. A marked improvement over the original Horizon chocolate milk— a step up from the previous blandness whilst keeping sweetness rightfully in the background.
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.
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.
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.
High Lawn Farm Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Pleasant base and somewhat bland upfront, though the cocoa shows up and makes an impact in the latter part of the sip— and it makes a good enough impression that you want another.
Crescent Ridge Lowfat Chocolate Milk
I appreciate the high cocoa-to-sweetness ratio that rightly affords chocolate the lion’s share of the limelight. The thinner than average viscosity breezes through the palate and ushers its flavor quickly and competently, but without much creamy sustain.
Monument Farms Dairy Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Solidly fundamental in a way that makes you overlook its low-fat nature. Everything falls nicely into place and it doesn’t feel cheap like the gallon jug behemoths at the typical large supermarket.
Rowdy Cow Creamery Cookies & Cream Dream Milk
Brilliantly creamy base with a nontraditional cookies & cream flavor that is sweet upfront but exits with a mildly sooty footprint.
Harvest Farms Organic Chocolate Milk
Coarse, chocolaty, and a not-quite-‘soapy’ sourness that distracts from the rest of the flavors. It’s appropriately under-sweet and responsible feeling— it’s just held back by the odd competing flavor that pulls you out of the experience.
Vale Wood Farms Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Unique combination of ‘milky’ flavor with a modestly earthy cocoa tinge. It has an excellent look and feel, and when you’re finished, you have one of the most attractive milk cartons ever made to do with as you wish (mantle piece?).
Weis Organics Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Sweet and salt are understated, but not missed, as its subtle cocoa flavor and an adequately creamy base give this a more ‘responsible’ than ‘recreational’ feel.
Valley Farms Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Decent balance of flavor that delves bravely into salty / caramel territory and is better for it. An above-average gallon with distinctive flavor and deceptively comely aesthetics.
Roundy's Select Low Fat Chocolate Milk
Chocolaty and salty— not a terrible flavor combination for a product attempting to be indulgent without upping the fat content. It’s very pleasant, though the aftertaste deteriorates into a cloying sweetness after the other flavors dissipate.
United Dairy Farmers High Protein Low Fat Chocolate Milk
A searing sweetness pierces through the formidable chocolate flavor, and ultimately sets the back of your throat ablaze with small, sugary lightning bolts. It still tastes ‘good’ but is a bit gluttonous with the ‘sweet’ lever. Avoid if you’re prone to diabetic shock.
Giant Eagle Local Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Drinks very well— there’s a cleanness to the finish that is garnished with salt and malt. There’s also some chalk involved, but given the flavor, it seems to have a purpose and therefore does not stand out as a drawback.
Giant Eagle Local Chocolate Milk
Sweet and curiously under-chocolaty— it drinks like a sweetened half & half— not the worst thing under the sun, but an interesting profile choice for chocolate milk.
Clover Sonoma Chocolate Milk
Decent cocoa flavor (perhaps with hints of caramel), however the texture woes noticed in the Reduced Fat version are present here as well. It feels unnecessarily thick and the creaminess doesn’t disperse in a natural-feeling way. There’s plenty to like about the flavor here, but the manner in which it's delivered takes me out the experience.
WinCo Foods Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Pleasantly flavorful chocolate milk highlighted by a noticeable salty snap that maintains your interest throughout. Texture-wise, it’s smooth and unobtrusive; overall a solid lowfat private label find.
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.