The 20 Best Low-Carb Craft Beers for Keto Diets

Da Shootz

Deschutes Brewery 

Carbs: 4.2 grams

ABV: 4 percent

Calories: 99

A recent release from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, Da Shootz is a Craft American Pilsner brewed with a scintillating hop bill of Tettnang, Lemondrop and Azacca to offer up zesty, slightly spicy and lip-smacking citrus notes to this low-carb craft beer.

Easy Sport

Boulevard Brewing Co.

Carbs: 4.5 grams

ABV: 4.1 percent

Calories: 99

Boulevard Brewing Co. in Kansas City, Missouri recently unveiled this easy-drinking brew that's crafted for those who enjoy active lifestyles. A clean, smooth-bodied Blonde Ale, Easy Sport is finished with tangerine peel and electrolytes to help drinkers quench their thirst after a demanding workout. Slightly tart and tangy, this low-calorie beer slots in perfectly into a keto diet.

Allagash Saison

Allagash Brewing Co. 

Carbs: 4.8 grams

ABV: 6.1 percent

Calories: 183

One thing that might surprise keto dieters about this list is the thrilling variety of beer styles present throughout. When one thinks of beers, the first thing that comes to mind might be: "Sure, that's scrumptious, but how many calories/carbs does it have? I know it's unhealthy." For these beers that is not the case, and even a rich, flavorful and trademark craft beer style like Saison is represented here by Allagash Brewing Co.'s Saison, which clocks in at 4.8 grams of carbs per serving. Zesty and lightly spicy with a faint trace of citrus and pepper, this brew is sure to quench thirst without breaking the carb bank for dieters. (Photo Courtesy Flickr/Allagash Brewing)

Repeat Kölsch

Sufferfest Brewing Co.

Carbs: 5 grams

ABV: 3.5 percent

IBU: 25

Calories: 95

Sufferfest made headlines already in 2019 by being Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s first-ever acquisition. Sierra Nevada, the third-largest craft brewery in the U.S. purchased San Francisco-based Sufferfest, which was launched in mid-2016 as a woman-owned, self-distributed “functional” beer brand.

As with most all low-carb beers, the secondary selling point to carb count seems to be flavor. Arguably, those on the keto diet are looking for that beer that won’t throw them out of ketosis and tastes great. For the Sufferfest Repeat Kolsch, that extra something comes from the bee pollen that’s added to the beer.

“We love it,” says Margaret Link, Director of Marketing for Sufferfest Beer Company, “because it imparts a great honeyed, floral aroma to the lite Kolsch, giving it more complexity and dimension than most low-cal, low-carb beers out there.”

Repeat Kolsch is one of the beers, of its 3,000-barrel annual production, that is billed as “Beer with Benefits.” And like all Sufferfest beers, it is gluten-removed, having <10 parts/million gluten.

Brut IPA

Four Peaks Brewing Co. 

Carbs: 5 grams

ABV: 6.7 percent

Calories: 152

The final Brut IPA on our list, Four Peaks Brewing Co. in Tempe, Arizona recently released this bone-dry IPA to wide acclaim, and its faint fruity elements in both flavor and aroma (as well as only 5 grams of carbs per serving) will likely keep keto dieters coming back for more.