I’ve never been so apathetic before in writing a root beer review than for Olde Rhode Island. It’s been sitting in a box of root beer alongside Sprecher and Barq’s, two of my favorites, so I’ve been putting off drinking it for quite some time. My apathy was warranted though as it has a watered down flavor with a bitter aftertaste. Nothing changed as I continued to drink it and it tasted nothing like a root beer, just a bland cola. So, it goes into the don’t waste your time/money category.
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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