Kleinpeter Milk tasting different lately??

How so? Right from the store, or closer to the expiration date?

I've had the expiration date issue. no taste issues.

Yeah, it's been going sour well before the date stamp.

Just doesnt taste as fresh, even when I first open the jug. The seal was in tact.

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Don't know about the milk, but the Kleinpeter ice cream was a huge disappointment. I'll stick to Blue Bell.

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I agree with this too.

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Yeah, it's been going sour well before the date stamp.

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This started when they moved their farm and their cows to St. Helena parish in 1997. If anything it's gotten worse since then. I stopped buying Kleinpeter years ago and have had good luck with the Shur-Fine house brand carried by the Associated Grocers. I don't know who makes it for them, but it lasts usually well past the expiry date.

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Yeah, it's been going sour well before the date stamp.

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Noticed this as well. WTF?

Would buying the generic store brand of milk be just as good as buying a name brand?

I have no clue. Adults shouldn't drink milk.

Kleinpeter has been buying milk on the open market for years: it is not strictly a locally farmed product. Some portion of the milk is local, but on any given day, it's coming from who-knows-where.

If you want strictly local, you've got to buy Smith's (which is packaged by Kleinpeter, but produced by Smith's grass fed cows) or Progress Milk Barn (the Mauthes'). Progress is available at farmer's markets and a few retail outlets.

I was thinking the same thing but thought it must just be me.