Oh, there is so much potential to be had here. It has a great carbonation that hits you up front and a good creamy flavor toward the middle. However, and it’s a big however, the flavors are a bit too much. There’s too much wintergreen and too much black licorice flavor to call this a particularly great root beer. If they were to dial those flavors back some, it would probably be an above average root beer for me. There’s just too much minty flavor, especially in the aftertaste. Also, it’s a little too sweet for my liking. It’s an average root beer in my ranking, particularly for the too much wintergreen.
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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