White Claw Nutrition: Calories and Carbs by Line

By the DrinkLeader team · Published 2026-10-13 · Data updated 2026-10-13 · 8 min read

A regular 12 oz White Claw in the catalog has 100 calories, 2g of carbs and 5% ABV. The brand now sells several lines, and each one changes the numbers: White Claw 70 is lighter, Surge is much stronger, the iced tea flavors have a bit more sugar and the Vodka + Soda cans are spirit-based. This guide goes line by line using only catalog numbers.

The White Claw lines

White Claw's own site groups its products into Hard Seltzer (the original), Surge, Clawtails and a non-alcoholic Zero Proof line. The catalog uses its own names for the products it has verified, such as 70, Iced Tea and Vodka + Soda, so a line you see in a store may be filed under a slightly different name here. The White Claw brand page lists everything in one place.

Original flavors

The original range is a long list of fruit flavors that share the same label numbers. Here are the first rows of the standard-strength set, ordered by carbs:

Every row in that set lists the same calories, carbs and ABV, so choosing between Mango, Lime or Blackberry does not change the nutrition panel in the catalog. The difference between lines matters far more than the difference between flavors. The hard seltzer nutrition guide shows how that compares with other brands.

White Claw 70

The 70 line is the lighter option:

At 3.7% ABV these cans hold less alcohol than a 5% seltzer, which is where most of the calorie saving comes from. Alcohol itself carries about 7 calories per gram, so a lower ABV lowers calories even when carbs stay the same. The low-alcohol seltzer guide compares it with other lower-strength cans.

White Claw Surge

Surge is the high-strength line:

A 12 oz can at 8% ABV holds roughly 1.6 US standard drinks, using the NIAAA definition of 14 grams of pure alcohol per drink. That is the main reason the calories are higher than the original line. Because the can is a normal size, it is easy to treat it like a regular seltzer; the standard drink guide shows how to count it.

Iced tea and Vodka + Soda

The iced tea seltzers are a separate set:

They list 3g of carbs, a gram more than the original flavors. The Vodka + Soda cans are made with spirits and list the lowest carbs among White Claw products:

Those rows list 1g of carbs at the same 5% ABV as the originals. If carbs are your main concern, the hard seltzer keto page and the under 2g carbs list show similar options from other brands.

Zero Proof flavors

White Claw's non-alcoholic flavors are filed under Non-Alcoholic in the catalog, so they do not appear in alcohol rankings:

These list 20 calories and 3g of carbs, which is more carbs than the alcoholic originals even though the calories are far lower. That is common in non-alcoholic drinks, where some sweetness replaces the flavor that alcohol provides.

Choosing a line by goal

If the goal is the fewest calories per can, the 70 line is the one to check first, because it lists 70 calories against 100 for an original flavor. If the goal is the fewest carbs, the Vodka + Soda cans list 1g and the 70 flavors list 1g. If the goal is to keep to one standard drink per can, avoid the Surge line, which holds noticeably more alcohol. And if sugar is the concern, the iced tea flavors are the ones that move upward, by about a gram a can.

No single difference here is large in absolute terms. A single can of any White Claw sits well below a sweetened canned cocktail or a regular beer on carbs, which is why the brand is popular with people counting carbs. But the numbers add up over an evening, and counting cans is not the same as counting standard drinks when the strength varies between lines. The same logic applies to every brand in the category.

Serving size is the other thing to check. Every White Claw in the tables above is a 12 oz can, but multipacks, tall cans and variety packs exist in stores. The tables on this page only apply to the can size shown in the Serving column. When a package is larger, scale the calories and carbs by the volume, as the FDA says to do for servings on a Nutrition Facts label.

How White Claw compares

With a category average of 104 calories, the standard 100-calorie White Claw sits close to the middle of hard seltzers. See White Claw vs Truly vs High Noon for a direct comparison, Truly for a deeper look at a competitor, and calories by brand for more names. The under 100 calories list is useful if calories are the priority.

Reading the numbers

The FDA explains that calories on a label apply to one serving, so two cans means doubling the figures. The catalog follows that: every number above is per can, not per day. Where producers publish values, the catalog uses them; the methodology page explains how gaps are handled.

This page is information, not medical advice. The CDC defines moderate drinking as up to two drinks a day for men and one for women when adults choose to drink, and says that drinking less is better for health than drinking more.