If you like vanilla, you’ll like Barrel Brothers. It’s almost tough to even call this a root beer because it’s such a smooth tasting drink that’s overpowering with the vanilla flavor. I thought it was good but upon further examination, it’s not a brand that I would want to drink a lot of. It’s almost cream soda like rather than root beer. So with those points, it’s an average, perhaps below average root beer brand.
From my brief google search to find an online website, it looks like this brand has been discontinued. You might can still find some bottles on an online retailer, but I’d imagine you might have hard time finding a supply should you like this brew.
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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