Northern Soda’s Toasted Pecan root beer tastes a little like drinking pecan pie. If you like that sort of thing, then this would be right up your alley. I like pecan pie but I don’t like drinking one. Also, this has no right to be called root beer. If they just named it Toasted Pecan pie, it wouldn’t be a problem. Also, it’s way too sweet. It’s another one I couldn’t finish. There’s a strong pecan flavor and a strong maple/caramel flavor as well. For a root beer, it gets very poor marks. For something other than a root beer, I’d rank it about average. Otherwise, I wouldn’t seek this one out. There’s no root beer to be found in this can.
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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