13 of the best hard seltzers, ranked by alcohol content

• Several brands have introduced spiked seltzers at varying alcohol by volume (ABV) percentages.

• Mighty Swell and Aldi's Vista Bay seltzers have the highest ABV at 5% a can.

• Michelob Ultra and Press spiked seltzer are both 4% ABV.

Michelob Ultra has a line of organic hard seltzers.

ABV: 4%

Michelob Ultra is largely a light-beer brand, but it also has several flavors of spiked seltzer.

It comes in 12 flavors across three different multipacks: the coconut-water collection, the classic collection, and the signature collection.

Press has a variety of seltzers in sophisticated flavors.

ABV: 4%

Press is a woman-owned hard-seltzer brand with some unique blends.

It offers several flavors, including pineapple basil, lingonberry elderflower, blackberry hibiscus, pomegranate ginger, lime lemongrass, grapefruit cardamon, pear chamomile, and apple cinnamon.

Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer comes in fruit- and rosé-themed flavors.

ABV: 4.5%

You might think of Smirnoff for its vodka, but the brand also has a line of hard seltzers.

Some of the brand's flavor options include pink lemonade and peach lemonade.

Corona Hard Seltzer comes in eight tropical flavors.

ABV: 4.5%

Corona is a popular Mexican beer brand, and it now sells 12-ounce hard seltzers.

The seltzers come in several flavors, like blackberry citrus, strawberry kiwi, blueberry acai, and raspberry lemon.

High Noon offers a vodka-based hard seltzer in a variety of flavors.

ABV: 4.5%

High Noon sells vodka-based "Sun Sips" that are advertised as being made with real juice and no added sugar.

Flavors include lemon, kiwi, guava, passion fruit, mango, peach, lime, pineapple, watermelon, black cherry, and grapefruit.

The brand has also expanded to include a line of tequila-based seltzers in flavors like lime, strawberry, grapefruit, passion fruit, prickly pear, and blood orange.

SunnyD also released a vodka-based seltzer flavored like the nostalgic juice.

ABV: 4.5%

SunnyD, the juice brand that became widely popular in the 1990s, created its own vodka-based hard seltzer.

It started with the brand's signature tangy orange flavor but has since expanded to include orange strawberry and orange pineapple.

Truly sells over a dozen different flavors.

ABV: 5%

Truly was one of the early seltzer brands on the market and is known for having a wide variety of flavors.

You can choose from basic flavors like wild berry, blueberry and acai, raspberry lime, black cherry, grapefruit, lemon, and lime, or fun twists like raspberry lime, citrus squeeze, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, watermelon, or kiwi.

The brand also has a Truly Unruly line with 8% ABV.

White Claw also comes in a bunch of flavors.

ABV: 5%

White Claw offers a variety of hard-seltzer flavors in 12-ounce cans.

The different variety and single-flavor packs include raspberry, mango, black cherry, natural lime, ruby grapefruit, watermelon, tangerine, lemon, strawberry, blackberry, passion fruit, and pineapple.

The brand also offers other flavors in its surf and lemonade lines, as well as seltzer surge flavors with 8% ABV.

Wild Basin Boozy Sparkling Water comes in some unique flavors.

ABV: 5%

Wild Basin Boozy Sparkling Water comes from the craft-brewery Oskar Blues.

You can choose from watermelon, peach, grapefruit, lemon, black cherry, raspberry lemonade, strawberry, berry sorbet, watermelon mojito, blue Hawaiian, passion orange guava, and lime coconut.

Bud Light is known for its beer, but its spiked seltzers come in several flavors.

ABV: 5%

Bud Light may be known for its beer, but the brand has also thrown its hat in the hard-seltzer ring.

Bud Light Seltzer currently comes in a few variety packs, with flavors like black cherry, watermelon, orange soda, cherry limeade, pink lemonade, blue raspberry, and twisted berry.

The brand also has a hard soda line and platinum seltzers with 8% ABV.

Vizzy Hard Seltzer comes in eight fruit-combining flavors.

ABV: 5%

Vizzy advertises hard seltzers with antioxidants and vitamin C.

Its 12-ounce seltzer cans come in fun mash-up flavors, like pineapple mango, black cherry lime, blueberry pomegranate, strawberry kiwi, watermelon strawberry, raspberry tangerine, papaya passion fruit, and blackberry lemon.

The brand also offers sparkling-mimosa and tangy-lemonade lines as well as newer orange-cream-pop seltzer.

Aldi's Vista Bay hard seltzers come in single and variety packs.

ABV: 5%

Vista Bay is Aldi's hard-seltzer brand, and it comes in single-flavor and variety packs.

One multipack comes with raspberry, ruby grapefruit, natural lime, and black cherry. The other has lemon, passion fruit, tangerine, and watermelon.

In past years, Aldi released a hard-seltzer advent calendar that had other specialty flavors, like green apple and blueberry.

Mighty Swell is a Texas-based seltzer brand.

ABV: 5%

Mighty Swell is a hard-seltzer brand that started in Austin, Texas.

The brand has offered unique flavors like rocket pop, tiger's blood, purple magic, pink colada, cherry lime, blackberry, watermelon mint, peach, grapefruit, pineapple, blood orange, and mango raspberry.

It also released a Techniflavor Pack with bluepeary, cantaloupe, dragon, and kiwidew flavors.

This story was originally published in August 2018 and most recently updated on August 22, 2024.

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