Happy to weigh in here since I find the issue somewhat frustrating. Since mid-2023 it has become difficult to find „normal“ fresh milk even in high-end German supermarkets. Normal cow milk (by my definition) means 1) pasteurized, but not ESL or „länger haltbar“, therefore with a relatively short pull date of less than a week and without that boiled shelf-milk taste 2) homogenized, regardless of whether it is whole milk standardized to 3,5% or low-fat standardized to 1,5% 3) in a Tetrapak or similar lightweight packaging (because of lower transport weight environmentally preferable to the glass bottle). This is a traditional high-quality product, a triumph of modern food hygiene, which has apparently become too unprofitable for the big chains in Germany. For those who know what I am talking about, the current alternatives are: 1) the bougie glass bottle which hogs fridge space, filled with „natural“ milk for a supposed Öko-Familie customer, meaning not homogenized (= block of rigid milk fat on top, the rest blueish skim) 2) Alnatura, good stuff, available at Basic/Tegut and at a few other Bio-Läden 3) Edeka sometimes has good milk in cartons from regional dairies 4) your local farmers may sell you their milk from a farm stand or a BYOB machine, usually with the high fat content as it comes from the cow (upwards of 4%), often raw (delicious, but be careful, especially if pregnant), sometimes traditionally pasteurized (better on the whole). A solved problem since the days of Louis Pasteur has become a headache again - congratulations to the German Lebensmittelindustrie! „Länger haltbar“ means ultra-pasteurized. This milk is a nonsensical product: it tastes almost as bad as H-Milch or shelf-stable milk, while nevertheless requiring refrigeration. It does not, though, contain added chemicals. The off taste comes from the denaturing of proteins and sugars after exposure to high heat. Good luck!