Don’t store your milk in the door of your fridge, always store it in the back (at or below 40° F) — it’s colder there. The door is the warmest place in the fridge. Also, remember to give the bottle a good shake before each and every use.

Glass bottles have so many advantages — we don’t even know where to start. First of all, they’re reusable. On average our bottles have a return rate of 80% and get reused 5 times, so that’s definitely good for the environment. But glass bottles also keep your milk colder in the fridge and therefore it lasts longer.

Always give your bottle a good shake before each use. But if you feel like a treat you can just scoop the cream on top out, use it like butter on a piece of bread or mix it in your morning coffee or tea.

Cows produce whole milk with two components: nonfat milk and cream. Left to settle, the cream naturally rises to the top. Homogenization is a processing step in which the cream is forced to distribute and suspend within the milk. Most milk sold at grocery stores today is homogenized. The pasteurized milk we sell at retail stores is not homogenized (except for our chocolate milk), leaving the milk as close as possible to its natural state. So, the cream naturally rises to the top.

Our organic whole milk is made the way nature intended, with the cream floating naturally to the top because it is not homogenized. So that saying that the cream-rises-to-the-top describing the good things in life? It’s true!

Our organic milk is the tasty result of nature and science working together. It’s pasteurized using the High Temperature Short Time (HTST) method, which destroys all bacteria that are harmful to health, but keeps the milk as fresh-tasting and flavorful as possible.

You can scoop out the cream that rises to the top of our organic milk, and use it like butter on a piece of bread, mix it in your morning coffee or tea, or use it in cooking.

The cream top in our organic milk can be remixed before pouring. Just push the cream layer back into the milk and shake the bottle — to avoid pesky milk splatters, make sure you keep your hand firmly over the lid!

Milk poured from glass containers simply tastes better because glass is inert and doesn’t chemically interact with the contents.

Since the beginning in 1994, Straus has bottled family farm certified Organic Cream-Top Milk in reusable glass bottles. Each glass bottle has a $2.00 deposit that is refunded when the rinsed bottle is returned to the store

Glass bottles keep your milk colder in the refrigerator (at or below 40° F), which helps make it last longer.

It’s best to return your rinsed bottle to the store. This helps us achieve our sustainability goals and reuse the bottles as frequently as possible.