First off, IBC makes it into the top tier of root beers for nostalgia alone. It was one of the first root beers I have ever tried and I remember drinking it many times during my childhood. It’s almost everywhere I look during my search for different brands and at Wal Mart it costs less than $1 a bottle. Plus it tastes great. It’s very smooth with a great caramel flavor. There’s no aftertaste and more importantly there is nothing that would give anyone pause to not drink it. There’s no bitter harshness or overwhelming flavor for the more casual root beer fan. It can please the masses well and is widely accessible and for that, it’s definitely in the top tier of brands I have tried thus far.
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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