I remember tasting milk of many cows in my family farm. Each cow had a “signature” taste and part of the experience of drinking milk was enjoying the different tastes. The taste of milk of one single cow depends on many factors: age, diet, health, etc. Then, how do companies standardise the taste of their bottled milk? Best case scenario I can imagine is that producers blends the milk of many cows, but this is definitely no guarantee of a standardised taste. How is this achieved?
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The other thing that happens as humans age is their taste dulls.
Every now and then my kids will tell me ‘the milk tastes funny/different/better’… VERY occasionally I can taste a difference too. We get the same brand every time.
Big dairy farms work very hard at having a consistent product, they get paid on how much much fat is in the milk etc, the grass the cows are eating is also kept really consistent which keeps the flavour ‘the same’.
The cows that make the fatty milk are getting theirs mixed in with the cows who have watery sweet milk… and alllllll the average cows just being average = regular milk
On our family farm the grass was just whatever was growing and different paddocks had different amount of weeds and in winter they were given extra things so the milk was always changing… goats milk is even more wild they could spend the day on some nasty (for humans, yum for goats) weed and their milk was disgusting and sometimes even a different colour!
TL:DR Dairy farms are aiming for consistency all the milk is mixed together so any standouts are unnoticeable.
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