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Van Grouw Family Farm Chocolate Milk

Beefy creamline body that is asked to handle a lot of cocoa flavor, and it does so magnificently. The bold, medium cocoa presence adds to the girth and comes with a bit of a texture on the back end- but it still feels copacetic and is enjoyable to the last drop. Sweetness is kept to a supporting role, which furthers the chocolaty/creamy punch and lets it shine in the aftertaste. Excellent stuff.

Mapes Farm Fresh Chocolate Milk

From the drop-dead gorgeous look of the unshaken bottle (chocolate at bottom, cream at top) to the excellent high-creaminess-to-thin-viscosity ratio, this is a uniquely delicious treat that drinks quickly (gone before you know it) and truly leaves you wanting more. The sweet/salty balance is finely tuned, the texture is fantastically lithe, and the cocoa presence is tasty and light. Perhaps the creamy base could shoulder more cooca flavor, or maybe that's me getting overzealous. I do have a problem, after all.

Country Creamery Chocolate Milk

Confident upfront saltiness sets the tone for a modeslty grassy onslaught of creamy goodness to which many aspire, but few attain. The medium-to-malty cocoa flavor pops in the latter half of the sip, tapers slowly amidst the buttery afterglow, before finally exiting like a gracious houseguest-- leaving you wanting more. So buy more than you think you need.

Freshly Dairy Cookies & Cream Milk

Cookies & Cream is a difficult flavor to do justice, and I usually cringe in preparation for a sweetness onslaught that typically goes well above your average chocolate milk. That's definitely not the case here-- this exudes a rich, cookie-forward flavor without the sugary crutch. The creamline body extends the flavor to its asymptotic maximum, leaving you with (finally!) a cookies & cream milk accessible enough to a young palate, and truly enjoyable (but on a different level) to a more mature audience. Kind of like some of the iconic animated 'childrens' films like Toy Story, Frozen, etc. So basically an instant classic, and a standout in the C&C milk genre.

Royal Riverside Farm Peppermint Cocoa Milk

A flavorful punch to the face in the best sense possible-- so much going on here! Fantastic peppermint flavor throughout that registers upfront and intensifies over the next few seconds, leaving you to bask in a deliciously satisfying and cooling afterglow that feels as good as it tastes. The creamy base and cocoa sweetness expertly play their supporting roles, and you're left with a uniquely tasty treat that leaves a lasting impression (literally and figuratively) on the palate.

Flatrock Creamery Chocolate Milk

Delectable thin-viscosity-to-high-creaminess ratio, confidently carrying its cocoa flavor and beautiful grassy lilt across any surface it comes in contact with. Being saltier than sweet further highlights the cream flavor and ensures minimal baggage in the aftertaste. Every bit as pleasant as an early-summer drive through southeast Indiana, but without the torrent of bug guts on the windshield.

Mitch-Hill Dairy Farm & Creamery Chocolate Milk

Immediately flavorful, with a powerful cocoa punch and blast of supporting sweetness that will raise eyebrows and insulin levels in quick succession. Its delicious creamline base and hefty flavor lends to a solid, indulgent feel throughout, and one that I'm looking forward returning to as I make my way through the gallon jug. 

Freshly Dairy Chocolate Milk

Delicious cocoa-malt punch with a velvety creamline texture that ends with a salty nip. It remains refreshingly focused on cocoa and cream throughout, and the sweetness plays its supporting role well, doing its part to enhance, not usurp the limelight. In total, it's a solidly built, slightly undersweet and over-creamy non-homogenized chocolate milk well worth your time and attention.

Southern Cultured Creamery Chocolate Milk

Densely flavorful creamline body that, much like fine wines and chocolate milk reviewers, gets better with age. A few days after opening the half gallon, I sense a grassier note which adds much desired 'dimensionality' to the cream. The cocoa flavor strikes the medium-to-malty part of my gustatory cortex and is warmly chaperoned by the cream flavor for a pleasant entrance and graceful exit-- of course leaving you wanting more.

Green Acres Creamery Chocolate Milk

Warm creaminess with a salty and slightly grassy nip upfront, which sets the tone nicely for the cocoa flavor that tapers off gracefully into the aftertaste. It feels solidly built upon a delicious Jersey creamline foundation and rewards you with an indulgent treat worthy of slow, pensive sips and that coveted top-shelf refrigerator real estate.

Teacup Farm Chocolate Milk

Deliciously buttery creamline body with finely-tuned sweet-salty balance in favor of the latter. Its cocoa flavor is on the maltier end of the spectrum and remains a rewarding treat that should pair well with just about anything, though I prefer to drink it in isolation, so I can focus more on the experience. Well that, and because I don't have very many friends. :)

Comley's Country Creamery Chocolate Milk

Immediately flavorful with a thin, silky texture that still feels blissfully creamy. The aftertastes leans sweet, but there's a fleeting grassy twinge toward the back end that adds dimensionality to the cream flavor and overall experience. Sixteen ounces goes extremely quickly when you're jonesing local, whole, creamline chocolate milk-- which is why I bought four bottles.

Destiny Dairy Bar Chocolate Milk

Impressively undersweet and thus focused on the cocoa and cream experience, both of which are well executed and substantial feeling. Uniqueness has cachet with me, and the sweet/salty balance-- decidedly in favor of the latter-- further pops the cream flavor in the back-end of the sip, leaving you satisfied, mildly introspective, and ultimately ready for another sip without the inclination to rush.

Peaceful Springs Farm Raw Chocolate Goat Milk

Resoundingly refreshing cocoa flavor with a slightly mature/sour pitch in the first third of the sip. It's not particularly wild or 'goaty' for those concerned about that-- it remains confidently under-sweet and cocoa-focused-- and I applaud the commitment to making chocolate milk that feels like: chocolate, milk.

Pigeon Creek Farm Raw Chocolate Milk

Nostril-flaringly chocolaty in a way that wins your admiration and respect quickly-- thanks in part to the raw, creamy base that knows exactly where to go and how to get there. This stuff has choco 'grit' (both literally and figuratively) so prepare your tastebuds for devastation (only figuratively)-- I mean that in the best possible sense.

Cows Around the Corner Chocolate Milk

Punchy choco-malty flavor with a sweet-salty balance deftly in favor of the latter. The creamline body is fully-burdened with flavor and does its job well to guide the experience gracefully through to the aftertaste, leading you back where you started, albeit significantly better off for having taken the trip.

Ayrshire Farms Chocolate Milk

Very well-balanced flavor, in that it leads with chocolate, and the salty/sweet ratio is spot on and plays its supporting role perfectly. It drinks quickly-- I finished the entire cup before even recording any of the review-- which is always a good sign. It comes off as effortlessly delicious-- which seems congruent with its simple roots-- a very desirable quality that can't be faked.

The Mullen Dairy & Creamery Chocolate Milk

Brightly cocoa-focused with a subtle homage to its grassy roots-- this is a powerful manifestation of what makes chocolate milk a pleasure to consume. The strong cocoa flavor is the star of the show, and the other aspects all play their supporting roles well-- particularly the sweetness, which remains thoughtfully in the background throughout.