A-Treat Diet Root Beer

as with most diet sodas, you take a sip and think it is not so bad, perhaps THIS is the diet soda that breaks the trend of awful diet sodas. and then it hits you, the terrible aftertaste. then it is all ruined and you dread the next sip because you know what will happen. way too much carbonation also, i am all burpy now! tee hee. i think my stomach is unhappy with my decision to give another diet soda a chance also. it tastes remotely like root beer if that is any consolation.
Anthony’s Rating: 15
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Adirondack Waist Watcher Diet Root Beer

ok, so i have had this for like 3 years in my refrigerator and just noticed it. i am a bit wary to drink it, but i shall, for you, my loyal readers. ok, it sucks. very high carbonation, which seems to be the case often for diet sodas. probably in a futile attempt to mask the awful diet sweetener taste. have i mentioned that i hate diet sodas lately? cuz i do. especially root beers. they taste nothing like root beer. this one especially. it is more of a very fizzy seltzer with a very faint root beer hint. whatever, i am dumping the rest of this out.

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After The Fall All Natural Diet Root Beer Spritzer

alright, so i got a 6 pack of this stuff when i was visiting people in Atlanta. it was at one of those natural grocery stores. i tried a couple of cans there but brought a couple home to try too. why, i do not know. especially now when i try it again. this is SO bad. granted it has no artificial sweeteners which is a plus. which means no cancer or brain tumor or liver damage risk i guess. but it tastes just like this medicine i used to have to have to take as a child to control my coughing from the asthma. the after taste is actually decent. it is that initial kick that stinks up the joint. it does sort of taste like some tropical fruit gone wrong.
Anthony’s Rating: 11
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After The Fall All Natural Diet Rootbeer

when i got this i had forgotten about the spritzer thing, probably since the packaging is so different. when i got home i was not sure if they had just renamed and remarketed the “spritzer” as just simply a diet soda. but when i try this, i know it is different. granted it is still awful but it is an intensified version of the awfulness that is the spritzer. what is root beer-like about either of these i do not know. or who the foolrod was who decided that this was what to put out into the market. it is a bitter, almost metal tasting mess. i will now dump the rest in the sink, after clearing it of anything it might splash on and taint forever.
Anthony’s Rating: 7
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Black Bear Diet Root Beer

the same woeful graphic design graces this bottle as on the regular root beer except they added “Diet” and the Splenda ™ logo. oh well, whatever. after trying that soda, i don’t have too high hopes for this. not that i would ever have high hopes for a diet soda anyway of course, but they were at the normal diet soda levels and not hoping for more because the fully sugared version was good. got it? good.
so this is another vexing diet beverage. it smells ok. first taste is ok but then it fades to grossness and flagpole licking-ness. BUT not as much as some diet sodas!! woo hoo!! it only tastes KIND OF like metal shavings! and my stomach only SORT of aches after three swallows. wow, alert the media! the most alarming thing is that it does indeed vaguely taste like root beer too! whoa, as Joey from Blossom once said. but only vaguely mind you. one day i will find a diet root beer that truly tastes like root beer. i am not sure why that is so impossible. but then again, i know next to nothing about food science.

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Boylan’s Diet Root Beer

i am wary of this stuff. on the one hand, it is Boylan’s, who have made some amazing sodas. but on the other hand, it is diet. back on that first hand the bottle says “Best Body” on it for no reason. on that second hand again, Boylan’s has made some not so great sodas too.
i notice too that Boylan’s seems to have become Boylan Bottleworks now, the possessive “‘s” is gone from the label entirely. and they love citric acid so much they listed it twice in the ingredients. curious…
alright, let us see…. smells ok… taste is not awful, OH no wait, it is! yup, it hits you later of course. gross diet soda taste that waits in a tree and springs on you when you let your guard down and forever wrecks your taste buds. or at least for a half hour. i just don’t get it, if the diet sweeteners are so chemically similar to sugar, why do they taste so vile? granted they are sweet but in a different way. and why oh why do i always get a stomach ache from them?
i am sorry to say that this does not really even taste like root beer much at all. very faintly, yes. like if you maybe let a few drops of root beer dry on a piece of aluminum foil and then chewed on it, you get that metallic taste with a hint of root beer.
wow, i can’t even finish this at all. or even make it past the neck level. excuse me i have to go cleanse my palette. and find some Natural Boylan’s Root Beer to remember what they do right.

Anthony’s Rating: 18
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Brewbakers Diet Root Beer

ok, this is just freaky, i think it may be a diet soda that tastes ok!! granted it has sugar and honey and corn syrup in addition to the NutraSweet, but still it only has like 22 calories in a bottle. weird. it tastes like root beer! wow. and it only slightly tastes like metal after 45 seconds or so! and my stomach only hurts a little bit after drinking 1/2 the bottle.
now, to be clear, this is not a good root beer, it is an excellent DIET root beer though, probably the best i have had. i know that may not mean a lot to you as i dislike pretty much all of them, but if i suddenly had to severely limit my sugar intake i think i’d order some of this. i am scared by that thought though.
unlike the regular root beer from Brewbakers, this actually has nutrition info, although the label is about the same bad quality of a color photo copy. so it is not so easy to make out i can’t read the ingredients very well either. even worse in fact. they seem to run into the graphics background which is the same color as the ingredients font. on the website the labels look totally different so maybe they have improved this issue lately.

Anthony’s Rating: 62
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Briar’s Diet Root Beer

can it be?! a diet soda that tastes good?! yeh, actually it does. weird. yeh, it has a slight aftertaste of NutraSweet but now i even less understand why other diet drinks with aspartame taste so awful. leave it to a NJ brewer to do it right i suppose. granted it is not amazing, but it is in fact better than many non-diet brews i have sampled. i may even finish the whole bottle. decently creamy, pretty sweet, but that weird sweet of nutrasweet although it is not overwhelming as i said already. if i was diabetic or whatever, i would drink this i think.
Anthony’s Rating: 58
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Chuck Wagon Diet Root Beer

at last, the final offering from this company! well, besides their non-root/birch beer or sarsaparilla offerings, obviously.
i don’t think i should have reviewed this soda today though. my tummy was already feeling a little weird and diet soda causes such things to happen out of no where on its own anyway. oh well, too late to turn back now i guess! carry on anthony!
as with many diet sodas, this seems alright for about a second, but then it is vile and i must rinse my mouth out to get rid of the awful awful, terrible aftertaste. there must be a word for that taste but i don’t know it. it is not the metallic taste which i sometimes get, it is worse.
it seems that diet root beer has an entirely different flavor that it is shooting for for whatever reason as many of them taste similar but not very much at all like their full-sugar brethren. and i don’t like that diet root beer flavor, whatever it is supposed to be.
this is ok, if you must drink diet. if you can have regular soda, just do it and walk a little to burn those extra calories, this is not really worth it.
Anthony’s Rating: 27
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Cool Mountain Gourmet Soda Diet Root Beer

ug, i guess this is what i get for putting off reviewing sodas, this huge backlog of diet ones. this one i got some time ago and assumed i had reviewed it already when i went through my root beer fridge to see what was left to do. but then i realized i had not. and i was sad since i knew this was kind of old and i had best get to it as soon as possible. so here i am, getting to it. or perhaps putting it off as long as i can, even another moment or two. although with low expectations perhaps this will be ok.
alright, let me clear my palette and i will try it…
whoa, for a soda that is at least 2 years old, this thing has a buttload of carbonation! and it is not so bad. well, at least it does not have that awful diet soda aftertaste! which is a major step/breakthrough in beverage technology! wow. getting past that fact though, it does not really taste like much of anything at all. maybe that is the trade-off, avoid the terrible taste along with any good taste. i would love to go into more details about the flavor but there is not one. let me try again, swish it around or something fancy. nope, i just get that carbonation tickle on my tongue. so this soda is not bad or good, just there and wet.
Anthony’s Rating: 30
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