Northern Soda Company…stop just stop. Ok, first of all, I love cherry colas almost as much as I love root beer. Cheerwine is probably one of my favorite drinks, I love Cherry Coke, and the Aldi brand cherry cola is quite top notch. Now, have you ever sucked on a cherry cough drop or had to drink medicine that was cherry flavored? This drink is dangerously close to that sweet cherry medicinal flavor. As far as root beer, there is nothing there. I’ve got one more Northern Soda can remaining & maybe it will taste a little like root beer. As far as this goes, don’t waste your time if you’re a root beer fan, a cherry cola fan, or both
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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