Original Review – April 17, 2017
Maine is a thoroughly average root beer. It’s very light with no discernible flavor. Has a hint of wintergreen on the back end. Lightly sweet and lightly creamy. Falls on the easily forgettable scale.
Re-Review – April 10, 2024
I was a tad bit harsh on my review all the way back in 2017. It is a light root beer and maybe it has a tad bit more wintergreen than I care for. That being said, I had placed it in the don’t waste your time/money category but it doesn’t belong there. I think, overall, it’s an average experience. It’s fine and there’s a lot worse out there but after so many that I have tried that haven’t tasted like root beer, at least this one does.
It’s been years (2019) since I reviewed the original Fitz root beer. I haven’t tried it since largely because with a few exceptions (Sprecher, Barq’s, A&W, & Dang) it’s onward to new root beers I haven’t tried before. It’s been so long since I had Fitz’s, the pride of Missouri, that I had to re-read the review to get my mind set for the diet version. I said the original version was clean, crisp, light tasting with a nice vanilla aftertaste. And honestly, that would be a good description of this one. It’s incredibly light tasting and because it’s diet, it’s not sweet at all. I got a little whiff of aspartame in the aftertaste but unlike a lot of diet drinks, it’s barely noticeable. For a diet drink, this is totally serviceable for those looking to save some calories & considering there wasn’t anything that turned me off and grading on a no sugar curve, it’s an above average drink. If I ever completely run out of root beers to revi. 
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