Reviewer "Aristophanes": 1/10

Diet Stewart's is the diet version of the mass-market Stewart's Root Beer.  I don't know why this product even exists.  I can understand diet cola - some people drink five or six colas a day, and the calories add up - but a diet root beer?  Who needs that?  Does anyone worry about being fattened by all of the root beer they consume?  It's like having a low-fat Kit-Kat bar.  Why?

I will admit that Diet Stewart's starts off OK.  It has a nice, classic bottle design, and it smells OK - typical, with a whiff of carbon dioxide, but not bad.  When I poured it into a glass for a visual inspection, however, I began to get suspicious.  It looked thin, with no head and a pallid, tea-like colour.  The taste - or lack of taste - was worse.  Diet Stewart's has absolutely NO flavour.  Honest.  If I were to do a blind taste test, I would say it tastes most like watered down, flavourless, carbonated diet cider - certainly NOT root beer!  And I'm an expert on root beer.  It has an aftertaste of pulverized alkaline battery. Upon inspection of the label, I learned that this is a zero-calorie root beer, sweetened with root beer, and with no recognizable ingredients aside from water.  Strangely, it contains some dessert plant extracts, for what purpose I cannot fathom (definitely not the taste).

I poured the rest of the bottle down the sink.  I will never drink this vile shadow of an excuse for root beer again.

Ew.