I’ve had Virgil’s in the past and I was never on their bandwagon. I thought it tasted just ok. But a few years had passed, and I figured it’s time to give it another whirl and an official review. It’s very smooth and not overtly sweet with virtually no aftertaste and maybe just a hint of wintergreen and cinnamon, I can’t quite tell. I read some other reviews online where people mentioned that it tasted of black licorice. However, I still don’t like it too much because I think it’s rather bland. Don’t get me wrong, there are many more root beers worse than this one and I think it’s easy to find for many but for me it is just an average label.
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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