Ben McIntosh was thrilled to be able to down his favourite milk flavour when it returned to sale at Kiewa General Store on Thursday.

“It’s exactly the same, it’s beautiful, I’m very happy,” the 18-year-old said.

The Kiewa farmhand had used a $200 Coles voucher he won to buy 40 two-litre bottles of the iced coffee before Murray Goulburn stopped its production in July.

“I’ve got about 14 litres left,” Mr McIntosh said.

“I was hoping it would last long enough until it come back out again.”

The Kyvalley Dairy Group, which bought the Kiewa Country brand and iced coffee recipe from Murray Goulburn, plans to have the flavoured milk in stores across the North East and Border on Friday.

Kiewa General Store owner Brendon Arundel said within five minutes of the bottles being stacked on his shelves at 8.15am the first iced coffee was sold.

“Milk comes from everywhere,” he said in response to concerns about the milk’s Kiewa Valley links.

“Yes it’s not being produced at the dairy (at Tangambalanga) but it’s coming from local cows and going through local hands.”

While The Border Mail was interviewing Mr Arundel near his store fridges, a customer’s eyes lit up as she saw the shelves of Kiewa iced coffee.

“Oh my God, it’s back,” Stacey Peterson exclaimed.

The Tallangatta resident bought two bottles.

“It’s awesome, I’ve been waiting for it to come back and I won’t drink any other iced coffee,” Ms Peterson said. 

Kyvalley director Wayne Mulcahy said his Kyabram dairy had been receiving regular 25,000 litre deliveries of milk from the North East for the past three weeks.

“We have a commercial arrangement with Murray Goulburn to buy tanker loads of milk off them and those tanker loads are sourced from suppliers in the Kiewa Valley,” he said.

Kyvalley chief executive Alastair McCreddin said more than 4000 bottles of iced coffee would be distributed on Friday.

“We’ve got capacity so if the demand is out there we can increase demand relatively easily,” he said.

“We’ve followed the recipe to a tee, but we wanted to make sure people we’re happy and they’ve said it tastes the same.

“They’ve said ‘we’ve captured the Kiewa iced coffee taste and the spirit of the milk’.”

One keen is Jack Britton, whose brother Mark said he would be going into withdrawal without having three Kiewa iced coffees a day.

“It’s spot on, Mark will be rapt, no more rehab for him,” Jack Britton said after having his first fresh Kiewa on Thursday while his brother worked at Myrtleford.

“It’s better than the other stuff they tried to make like it.

“It’s bloody perfect, the only thing that is wrong is that, it’s 500ml not 600ml.”