Okay, so I met up with a college friend for dinner last night (wings!) and got home around 9. I was full, but I didn't overeat (so content, but not sickeningly full -- ate 6 boneless wings and split a plate of buffalo chicken nachos, so not TONS eaten). It was more that it was relatively late and I'm not hungry so much that close to bed, but I wanted to get a review up as quickly as I could.
So since the consensus has been 6oz. water, I started off with 3oz. water and half a scoop to begin (because I wanted to test with milk too and didn't want to eat all that much). In water it mixes up well (I used a ProMixx blender/shaker for this; usually do for anything other than isolate). Taste was good, but I couldn't really pick up on a ton as there wasn't much to work with for only half a scoop.
Tried 6oz. of CarbMaster chocolate milk and one full scoop of Caramel Cookie Stix, next. CarbMaster (vanilla or chocolate) is a wonderful, wonderful thing (if you have a Kroger, I highly recommend getting it) as you get 11g protein and only 60 or 80 kcal (respectively). But more importantly, the flavor of it is ON POINT. So this mixed up well, also (much thicker as it was milk, but that chocolate mixes up super thick in protein). Obviously a strong chocolate flavor from this and significantly better taste overall for me. I can taste the protein and it tastes good, but I can't quite put my finger on the specific taste. I had my wife take a sip to get her opinion. She also agreed it tasted good, but wasn't much better than I at pin-pointing anything. I believe the chocolate was just slightly overpowering for this, because she predominantly said she tasted "chocolate milk" (not knowing what I mixed or how; just simply asked her to tell me her opinion as I randomly handed her the cup).
So I think in the future I will attempt with regular milk and possibly with 3 oz. chocolate and 3 oz. water. I'll try some variations and get back. It's good, but I can't quite nail the caramel taste yet. Again, I taste SOMETHING (and it's good), but it doesn't just taste like caramel to me.
I'll weigh in as soon as I get a chance to play around more.
FYI, this is once again a very powdery protein and mixes up great (unlike some that seem kind of grainy). Always loved how Modern Protein was consistency wise.