I’ve had Dachshund, Black bear, & Bulldog root beers so to continue the animal themed drinks, what about Hippo size? The previously mentioned drinks were all either above average or top tier drinks so Hippo had a lot on the line & unfortunately failed to deliver on so many fronts. It lacks any bite or even creamy root beer flavor. It’s mostly wintergreen in note. In my previous reviews, if I mostly taste wintergreen then it’s going to get an average, at best, review. Overall, the flavor profile was rather one note and boring. It wasn’t totally undrinkable but it also wasn’t far off either. It falls into the below average 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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