30 Hard Seltzers To Help Keep You on Track in 2025

As the weather gets warmer, that means one thing: it’s hard seltzer season.

And since there are so many options out there, it’s time to compare 30 of the most popular options to discover which are the best options to help keep you on track with your diet goals.

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of hard seltzer drinks, but I’m a terrible judge because I don’t particularly enjoy any carbonated beverages.

That being said, I can’t deny the popularity of hard seltzer, although the market has seen a noticeable decline in recent years.

In 2022, it seemed like the hard seltzer market reached its peak. In fact, I first put this guide together back then, and there were significantly more options to filter through.

As the years have gone on, many options have been discontinued due to lower demand for seltzer as a whole, but there are still 30 options that deserve recognition (and many other small brands out there as well).

For this guide, I’m going to break down the calories, sugar, and alcohol content of each hard seltzer option. Finding a low-carb or low-calorie seltzer is likely your goal if you’re reading this post, and lucky for you, most of the options out there fit that mold!

Does Alcohol Really Contain 0 Carbs?

If someone is looking for a low carb cocktail, they don’t often think that there are many great options out there. But as you’ll see in this guide, most hard seltzer out there is very low carb and great for a keto diet.

How can that be?

Alcohol itself is technically its own macronutrient, we just don’t count it alongside fat, protein, and carbs because it’s not essential.

In other words, we don’t need alcohol in our diets to live healthy lives.

Every gram of alcohol contains 7 calories, which is why your drink will always have calories even if all of the other macros are listed as 0 grams.

Here’s a quick visual to make it easy to understand:

If you’re into counting calories and tracking macros, figuring out how in the world to track alcohol can be confusing.

Long story short: you can choose to track the alcohol as fat or as net carbohydrates, or a combination of the two. It comes down to your individual preferences.

The method above works for pure alcohol or vodka sodas, but it won’t be the exact same strategy for dry wines, hard cider, or mixed drinks made with mixers containing extra calories.

Don’t worry, I have an entire post on the topic that you can find here.

Now, let’s compare every popular hard seltzer brand out there (I’ll list these in alphabetic order for you to easily be able to find your favorite).

Are Hard Seltzer Drinks Actually Healthy?

Many people feel that alcoholic drinks are off the table when trying to eat healthy, but that doesn’t need to be the case at all.

Whether you’re on a low carb diet (specifically the ketogenic diet) or simply want to watch your calories or sugar intake, you can work alcoholic beverages into your diet.

Moderation is the key to anything, but that especially holds true for alcohol. While each hard seltzer in this list may contain around 100 calories, the calories can begin to add up after multiple drinks. Even with a drink containing zero sugar, it’s typically the food you consume alongside the alcohol consumption that makes all the difference.

Still, with most of these hard seltzers being low calories and containing very few grams of carbs, they’re still a great choice for a low-carb diet.

Whether or not a hard seltzer is “healthy” depends entirely on your definition of the word. Maybe zero carbs is the most important factor to you, or maybe it’s the fact that a drink uses natural flavors and no artificial sweeteners.

The list below will help you identify a hard seltzer that is a good option for YOU, and we’re mostly going to look at the lowest calories for weight loss purposes, and grams of carbohydrates for a low-carb or keto lifestyle.

If other factors are more important to you, use this guide as a starting point to then look into each brand further!

Calories & Sugar in Hard Seltzer

As you scroll through this post, I’ll break down each seltzer, but I wanted to include them all in a single infographic for easy browsing.

This contains most of the popular hard seltzers along with their calories, sugar content, and ABV (alcohol content).

Of course, some brands offer flavors and variations that might differ a little bit, but for the most part, the calories, sugar, and ABV will remain very similar throughout.

Corona Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Corona Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 2g

Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV

Crooks

For an 11.5oz can of Crooks

Calories: 80

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4% ABV

Fruit Smash Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Fruit Smash Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: <1g

Alcohol Content: 4.7% ABV

Grown Folks

For a 12oz can of Grown Folks Hard Seltzer

Calories: 170

Sugar: 6g

Alcohol Content: 6% ABV

Happy Dad Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Happy Dad

Calories: 100

Sugar: 1g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

High Noon Vodka + Soda

For a 12oz can of High Noon

Calories: 100

Sugar: 3g

Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV

JuneShine

For a 12oz can of JuneShine

Calories: 175

Sugar: 3g

Alcohol Content: 8% ABV

Flavors:

• Lime
• Mango

Lunar

For a 12oz can of Lunar Hard Seltzer

Calories: 120

Sugar: 7g

Alcohol Content: 4.7% ABV

Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Michelob Ultra Organic Seltzer

Calories: 90

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4% ABV

Mighty Swell Spiked Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Mighty Swell Spiked Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 3g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

MTN Dew Hard

For a 12oz can of MTN Dew Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Nectar Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Nectar Hard Seltzer

Calories: 90

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4.7% ABV

NUTRL Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of NUTRL Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV

Pabst Blue Ribbon High Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Pabst Blue Ribbon Higher Seltzer

Calories: 25

Sugar: 4g

Alcohol Content: 0% ABV

PBR High Seltzer is a unique non-alcoholic seltzer that creates a “buzz” through cannabis instead of alcohol. Each can contains 10mg THC instead of alcohol, resulting in a very low-calorie drink.

Press Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Press Hard Seltzer

Calories: 110

Sugar: 5g

Alcohol Content: 4% ABV

Quirk Spiked Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Quirk Spiked Seltzer

Calories: 90

Sugar: <1g

Alcohol Content: 4.2% ABV

Smirnoff Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Smirnoff Seltzer

Calories: 90

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV

Sunny D

For a 12oz can of Sunny D Vodka Seltzer

Calories: 95

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 4.5% ABV

Svedka Tropics

For a 12oz can of Svedka Tropics

Calories: 180

Sugar: 6g

Alcohol Content: 8% ABV

Topo Chico

For a 12oz can of Topo Chico Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 2g

Alcohol Content: 4.7% ABV

Truly Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Truly Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 1g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Truly Unruly Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Truly Unruly Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 1g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Vista Bay (Aldi) Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Vista Bay Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 2g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Vita Coco Spiked

For a 12oz can of Vita Coco Spiked

Calories: 130

Sugar: 10g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Vizzy Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Vizzy Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 1g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

White Claw Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of White Claw

Calories: 100

Sugar: 2g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

White Claw Surge

For a 12oz can of White Claw Surge

Calories: 160

Sugar: 2g

Alcohol Content: 8% ABV

Wild Basin Hard Seltzer

For a 12oz can of Wild Basin Hard Seltzer

Calories: 100

Sugar: 0g

Alcohol Content: 5% ABV

Which Hard Seltzer is the Lowest Calorie Option?

As you can see by the guide, most hard seltzers on the market have very similar calories & nutrition facts, so we really can’t crown a champion for the fewest calories.

When you pick up a 12oz can of hard seltzer, you can expect it to be roughly 90-110 calories in total.

Pabst Blue Ribbon High Seltzer is technically the lowest-calorie seltzer out there, but that is because it contains no alcohol (it contains THC to create a buzz instead).

For 12oz cans of alcoholic seltzers, you’ll find the calorie content to be extremely similar.

Generally speaking, hard seltzer is actually one of the healthier choices when it comes to alcoholic drinks! Just watch out for all of those extra calories from appetizers and snacks during happy hour, and you can enjoy that alcohol (in moderation) as part of a healthy diet!

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