I'd like to get a good protein flavor review thread going so I can steer clear of gross ****. Score the taste of each protein on a scale of 1-10, and please include the preparation as sugar, milk, water can all affect the taste dramatically.

So, I bought the assorted pack of ON gold standard 100% whey from bodybuilding.com to try the different flavors out. It's got 16 different flavors in it, each package is one scoop. It was $19.99, so it's a rip off. Hopefully I can save you guys some money.

Tropical Punch
Preparation: Shaker bottle with water and some dextrose (~1:1 ratio).
Taste: Similar to pepto bismol, but not as bad. This would probably be better with some juice or berries. I would definitely dread having to finish off a tub of this. Will never purchase again.
Score: 5/10

I used to be a GNC fish so I an go through a bunch of their flavors:

Chocolate - Tasty with milk/sugar or milk/equal. 9/10. 6/10 with water. Not horrible but not really all that good.

Vanilla - Decent with milk/sugar, 7/10. Pretty bad without it 4/10.

Strawberry - Bad all around. 5/10 with milk, 3/10 without.

Cookies and cream - not very good, somewhere between vanilla and strawberry.

Grass fed, various cuts

Preparation: High heat sear for 1 minute on each side, you want the entire perimeter of the steak cooked to lock in the juice and seal in the goodness.
Taste: With salt and butter and a nice chunk of fat it's like an orgasm in your mouth.
Score 10/10

Syntha 6 Cookies and Cream 11/10
Syntha 6 Strawberry 9/10
Syntha 6 Banana 9/10
Syntha 6 Vanilla 9/10
ON/Vitamin Shoppe Choc Mint 9/10 PWO, 7.5/10 with water or milk
ON Vanilla 2/10
ON Strawberry 6/10
ON Chocolate 7/10 (staple protein for 2 years)
Isopure Strawberry cream 8/10 PWO, 3/10 with water or milk
Isopure Mango Peach 8/10 PWO, 2/10 with water or milk

I think that's all the proteins I've had in my entire lifetime. Loving the Snytha 6, though only use it in the morning.

I agree with the Syntha 6, but sometimes it gave me the hershy squirts.

ON vanila 5
ON cookies and cream: 1
ON chocolate mint 7
ON tropical punch 7.5
Beverly Nutrition Muscle provider chocolate: 10 (expensive but very tasty!)
Syntha 6 chocolate 8
San Infusiion Vanilla/Caramel: 9 (similar to muscle milk, but superior ingredients)

Was just at the Vitamin Shoppe picking up some fish oil and decided to try a Muscle Milk Mocha Joe RTD....

wow that **** tastes amazing...

Muscle Milk Strawberry; mixed w/ milk it tastes like a milkshake 10/10
Muscle Milk Chocolate Mint; ditto 10/10
Biotest Metabolic Drive Chocolate Drinkable; kind of weird tasting 8/10
Biotest Metabolic Drive Vanilla Probably the best tasting Metabolic Drive 9/10
Biotest Metabolic Drive Banana Decent; 7/10
Biotest Metabolic Drive Strawberry Not nearly as good tasting as the muscle milk 7/10
Biotest Metabolic Drive Orange I didn't really like this one; my least favorite 4/10
Biotest Surge Rootbeer Tasted Weird; like sugary water 5/10
Biotest Surge Chocolate Best tasting Surge; 9/10
Biotest Surge Vanilla Sugar water taste again 5/10
Biotest Surge Raspberrry Better than vanilla and rootbeer; kind of sweet 7/10
Biotest Grow! Whey Protien No flavor; tastes kind of like paste, but I just chug it down as fast as possible. Then again, I didn't purchase for the taste; I bought it for the economy 3/10
FWIW, I finished tubs of all the above and it was no big deal. When I got bored with a flavor I mixed them up (chocolate+banana; strawberry+orange; etc) and they were okay.

lol @ rootbeer

Muscle Milk Vanilla is the best I've ever tasted with oatmeal.

The cheap walmart stuff in the orange/purple can:

Vanilla - passable. Works fine with water or oatmeal.
Chocolate - disgusting. Makes oatmeal look like diarrhea.

The EAS stuff is pretty good. You can get a 5 lb bag at Sams for 30 bucks. Chocolate and Vanilla are both good tasting. 8/10

FWIW I mix all my shakes with water most of the time:

ON Whey Chocolate 7/10 - Good, not great. I can drink these nearly everyday without a problem.
ON Whey Vanilla 2/10 - Awful, if the water wasn't very cold this made me gag a little. Texture and look reminded me of mayo, not a good image.
ON Whey Rocky Road 8/10 = Barely edges out the chocolate, highly recommended.
ON Casein Chocolate 6/10 - If you can get over the texture it's not horrible. Doesn't mix well but I think this is true for most caseins.
ON Casein Cookies and Cream 5/10 - Bought it by mistake, wouldn't buy again.

GNC PM Protein, Chocolate 4/10 - LOL GNC.

Metabolic Drive Chocolate 9.5/10 - Tastes great, has a hard to describe coffee taste to it IMO. Dunno if it's worth the price if I'm just trying to chug a shake though.
Metabolic Drive Banana 8/10 - This combined with oatmeal is seriously my favorite meal right now. Mixes a little rough though, very powdery compared to other proteins.

I'm so jealous you guys can drink milk. Mixing with water makes em all taste nasty I guess. Maybe I'll just put it in my oatmeal instead of making a shake using water.

I'm getting close to purchasing an order of Syntha-6 Cookies and Cream and ON Chocolate Mint, but is the soy in them any kind of problem? I've heard all those bad things about soy, but I think the amount of it in these is pretty insignificant.

Anybody?

Uhhh there's no soy in any of them?

Maybe there's a difference, but at least on bodybuilding.com they all list lecithin from soy as an ingredient.

It's the last ingredient isn't it? That means there's barely any of it in the product. Trace amounts of soy won't do anything to you.

Yeah, that's what I figured, but I thought I would ask first.

Thanks.

???

I mix all my ish with water and it isn't too bad at all.

but it tastes delicious x100 with milk...

Yeah, it also effs up the profiles of whatever.

If you were eating stuff for deliciousness, I'd just sit in my room and eat candy while starting the gobboboy diet.

Milk will not eff up the profiles of whey protein, get a clue before you spout off bs.

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the macronutritional effect of adding milk (galactose sugars, etc.) to your protein shake, not to mention the fact that milk is extremely insulinogenic.

ON Strawberries and Bananas is like an 8/10. The powder also changes color as you mix it!

PWO in particular milk and whey is not optimal.

How not optimal is it, and how important is optimal PWO nutrition?

I feel like we're talking about small degrees of difference here.