Unlike the previous root beer, Appalachian, which I had high expectations for but it fell well shy of them, I had very low expectations for the Capone Family Secret brand and they almost reached the low hurdle. Perhaps it was the label or the “history” that the Capone family had a secret recipe hidden for root beers. The mediocre root beer bark taste faded into a vanilla aftertaste which quickly went as soon as it came. It’s below average for sure and I think the recipe should have stayed hidden in the Capone family vault along with the rest of their dark secrets.
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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