Excellent creamy base that delivers a unique experience more highlighted by malt than cocoa. The flavor finishes very cleanly and (physically) won’t cling to your insides, providing a resoundingly satisfying conclusion to each draw.
Land O Lakes Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Smooth and creamy texture with a cocoa flavor that kicks in toward the latter half of the sip. It finishes nicely, feels true throughout, and exudes a simplicity that brings me back to my younger days.
O Organics Reduced Fat Chocolate Milk
Strongly sour cocoa taste that doesn't apologize for its boldness-- nor should it. There is a bit of chalk along for the ride, and it slightly impacts the otherwise creamy medium, but overall, it’s a deliciously quick way to add 310 calories to your daily ledger.
Lucerne Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Sweetish, averagely smooth and creamy, and a pretty straight-forward cocoa flavor. All components come together well enough to crest the good side of the bell curve.
Kalispell Kreamery Chocolate Milk
Gorgeous texture— thin yet creamy— a balance so infrequently struck in chocolate milk. Unencumbered by thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc.— you can really tell here. There’s no unnecessary thickness or starchiness, the cocoa flavor is deliciously prominent, and it all finishes extraordinarily cleanly. My only regret is that I didn’t buy more (I bought 3).
Pure Eire Organic Chocolate Milk
Fantastically creamy with a wild edge that provides a truly welcome and interesting character. (I was fortunate to try both the glass and plastic bottle versions, and in my case, the cream mixed much more evenly in the plastic— and that is the experience that I will review.) The cream-to-viscosity ratio is perfectly delivered, and though all other attributes are more than competent, they almost become moot when this ratio is nailed to the degree it is here.
Darigold Refuel Rich Chocolate Shake
Tons of flavor, particularly on the sweet end of the spectrum, which is also its biggest drawback. There’s no fortified taste whatsoever— it’s all very well hidden behind an impenetrable wall of sweet. The cocoa and salt are both stronger than average as well, and help to provide much-needed dimension.
Darigold Refuel Chocolate Peanut Butter Shake
Slightly less sweet, but noticeably more grainy and chalky than its chocolate counterpart. The flavor is very well executed and accurate to how you’d hope it would be— but unfortunately the texture (while not bad for a protein-y drink) is a departure from the smooth and milky ideal.
Twin Brook Creamery Chocolate Milk
Sweet, creamy, not terribly chocolaty, but still highly enjoyable. It disperses naturally, though leaves a bit of a cloying aftertaste— an easily forgivable gaffe given the circumstances.
Bennett Family Farm Chocolate Milk
Delectably creamy and malty, with a natural-feeling texture and well-sustained aftertaste that prolongs the quality of each exquisite sip. The sole downside is the pain and anguish I will feel after having exhausted the 1.89L bottle, knowing that I won’t soon return to western Oregon.
Lochmead Farms Chocolate Milk
Dense, earthy, and a bit on the starchy side— but it’s picked up by a creamy undertone that starts subtly and ends strongly. There’s a uniqueness to the flavor that will raise neither your suspicion nor your opinion.
Fred Meyer Lactose Free Chocolate Milk
Very well balanced and highly drinkable. Not weighed down with excess sugar or that ‘thickened’ feel— a pleasant addition to any grocery order or BYOB gathering.
QFC Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Strongly sweet, but adequately chocolaty and slightly more creamy than average chocolate milk. If the sugar were dialed back a bit, the merits of the other flavors would be more easily accessible and appreciated.
Fred Meyer Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Strongly sweet, but adequately chocolaty and slightly more creamy than average chocolate milk. If the sugar were dialed back a bit, the merits of the other flavors would be more easily accessible and appreciated.
Mountain Dairy Lowfat Chocolate Milk
The super-chalky and unsatisfying texture is neither enhanced nor salvaged by an equally unsatisfying sugar-laden chocolate-flavored catastrophe.
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 Lactose Free Lowfat Chocolate Milk
Surprisingly chocolaty and well-balanced, with plenty-but-not-too-much sweetness and a creaminess that outperforms its fat content. A definite ‘must try' for the lactose averse fans of chocolate milk— or really anyone for that matter.
Nutcher Milk Company Chocolate Milk
Devastatingly beautiful mouthfeel, highlighted by a creamy cascade of love that impregnates your palate with the essence of what chocolate milk was intended to be. I feel it deserves at least few more adulatory sentences, but crafting them (and doing it adequate justice) would cut into my time, which, at this moment, is better spent transferring the bottle’s contents to my midsection.
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.
Humboldt Creamery Organic Chocolate Milk
Strikes a fantastic balance of thinner viscosity with remarkable creaminess—perhaps the hardest thing to get ‘right’ for so many producers. It’s delicious and sophisticated feeling, though light on actual cocoa flavor. The ‘blindfold test’ might have more people guessing ‘vanilla’ as the flavor, but it remains a worthwhile pursuit for the chocolate milk enthusiast.