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Continue reading →: No. 133 – Filbert’s PumpkinI’m still waiting for a pumpkin root beer that’s better executed than what Filbert’s came up with
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Continue reading →: No. 132 – Hartville Kitchen
Hartville Kitchen is a superb place to have a great meal and for some great root beer
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Continue reading →: No. 130 – Mason’sI don’t have the accurate statistics right in front of me but I feel that the vast majority of the root beers I have tried are firmly within the average category. I’d say around 50%, perhaps a bit more. 25% of the remaining are either top tier and above average…
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Continue reading →: No. 127 – Special ReserveTop tier brew, top tier taste, with a top tier price $$$
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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. 