Bundaberg is one of the weirdest root beers I have ever had. First of all, it has a weird pull tab to open, and you must invert the bottle before opening. Second, fellow root beer connoisseur David Arwood likens it to drinking cough syrup. The flavor is hard to describe but it tastes fruity with a bit of a lemon aftertaste. It’s made in Australia so I’m going to be weary of future root beers made down under. It’s something else masquerading itself as a root beer. Will not get again.
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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