How many calories are in a Blue Moon?
A 12 fl oz bottle or can lands at 155 calories, or 43 calories per 100 g. USDA publishes no record for the brand itself, so that figure comes from its regular-beer row, the closest published match for a 5.4% ABV wheat ale. A 16 oz pint pushes it to 206.
You'd need to walk about 31 minutes to burn the 155 calories in a 12 fl oz bottle or can (360 g).
How long does it take to burn off Blue Moon?
A 12 fl oz bottle or can (360 g) is 155 kcal. Enter your weight and the amount you ate to see how long it takes you to burn that off:
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| Activity | Time to burn 155 kcal |
|---|---|
| Walking, brisk | 31 min |
| Cycling, moderate | 19 min |
| Swimming, moderate | 22 min |
| Jogging | 18 min |
| Weight training, moderate | 34 min |
Times are for a 155 lb adult at a steady pace; change the weight to see yours. The amount is set to the portion in the text (360 g); change it to what you actually ate. BodyPal works this out from your steps automatically.
On this page
- Blue Moon quick facts
- US servings, from one ounce to a 40 oz bottle
- Light, craft and non-alcoholic versions
- Carbs and alcohol, not fat, carry the calories
- How does Blue Moon compare?
- Most popular blue moon brands
- FAQ
Blue Moon quick facts
There is no USDA entry for the brand, and there never will be one: alcoholic beverages are labeled under TTB rules rather than the FDA Nutrition Facts panel, so beer almost never appears in USDA's Branded database. The row used here is FNDDS 2710616, "Beer", the survey record for regular beer in the roughly 4.5% to 5.4% ABV band. It is the only beer record that ships with real household servings, and it is identical, number for number, to the older SR Legacy entry 168746.
The obvious alternative, the "higher alcohol" beer row, does not fit. That record is built for craft beers above about 7% ABV and reports 0.27 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, which is nothing like a Belgian-style wheat ale. Same database, different preparation, very different answer.
| Nutrient | Per 100 g | Per 1 bottle or can, 12 fl oz (360 g) | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 43 | 155 | — |
| Total fat | 0 g | 0.0 g | 0% |
| Saturated fat | 0 g | 0.0 g | 0% |
| Carbohydrate | 3.55 g | 12.8 g | 5% |
| Dietary fiber | 0 g | 0.0 g | 0% |
| Total sugars | 0 g | 0.0 g | — |
| Protein | 0.46 g | 1.7 g | 3% |
| Sodium | 4 mg | 14 mg | 1% |
% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.
Verified nutrition data
Numbers on this page come from USDA FoodData Central, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food composition database, and from manufacturer labels where a branded product is named. Last verified September 2026. How we verify our data →
Two label lines you would expect are missing. USDA does not publish added sugars for this record, and it does not publish trans fat either, so neither row appears above; with total sugars at 0 g and fat at 0 g across the board, there is nothing for those lines to report anyway. Cholesterol is 0 mg. Potassium comes in at 97 mg per bottle, 2% of the Daily Value, which is the only mineral on the record worth naming.
Sodium is the quiet surprise in the other direction. At 14 mg a bottle, this is one of the few things in a bar that will not touch your sodium budget at all: 1% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg.
US servings, from one ounce to a 40 oz bottle
| Serving | Weight | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| 1 fl oz | 30 g | 13 kcal |
| 1 oz | 28 g | 12 kcal |
| One bottle or can, 12 fl oz | 360 g | 155 kcal |
| One pint glass, 16 fl oz | 480 g | 206 kcal |
| One 40 oz bottle | 1200 g | 516 kcal |
| Per 100 g | 100 g | 43 kcal |
The 1 fl oz, 12 fl oz, 16 fl oz and 40 fl oz pours are USDA household measures attached to the record, weights and all. The 1 oz line is our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, not a USDA serving, and it is there only because food logs default to ounces by weight while bars pour by volume. Beer is a hair denser than water, which is why 12 fluid ounces weighs 360 g rather than 355.
That gap between the bottle and the glass is the whole trap. A 16 oz pint is the same beer at 206 calories, 51 more than the bottle, a 33% jump for a pour most people still write down as "a beer." Order two draft pints instead of two bottles and you have logged 412 calories rather than 310, without a single ingredient changing. Carbohydrate climbs the same way, from 12.8 g to 17.0 g.
Light, craft and non-alcoholic versions
Wheat ales come in more than one strength, and the seasonal and light spinoffs of a flagship beer land on different USDA rows. Each per-serving figure below is our own arithmetic from that record's 100 g value, scaled to a 360 g pour, except the draft pint, which is a USDA household measure.
| Version | Per 100 g | Typical pour | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular wheat ale, bottle or can | 43 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 155 kcal |
| Draft pint, regular beer | 43 kcal | 16 fl oz (480 g) | 206 kcal |
| Light wheat beer | 29 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 104 kcal |
| Low-carb light beer | 27 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 97 kcal |
| Higher-alcohol craft or seasonal ale | 58 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 209 kcal |
| Non-alcoholic beer | 37 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 133 kcal |
| Michelada, beer with tomato and lime | 33 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 119 kcal |
The light row is the one that pays. Switching a bottle of regular for a bottle of light saves 51 calories and takes carbohydrate from 12.8 g down to 5.9 g. The low-carb light record goes further on carbs, 2.6 g a bottle, and is the lightest thing on this table at 97 calories.
The non-alcoholic row breaks the pattern people expect. It is lower in calories than regular beer, 133 against 155, but it carries 29.0 g of carbohydrate per bottle, more than double the regular row, and all 29.0 g of it registers as sugar. Take the alcohol out and the energy has to come from somewhere; in a dealcoholized beer it comes from unfermented malt sugar.
A winter seasonal or a barrel-aged release sits on the higher-alcohol row instead: 209 calories a bottle, 54 more than the flagship, with carbohydrate falling to 1.0 g. That inversion is the tell. Beer calories track alcohol far more closely than they track carbs.
Brand rows behave the same way. USDA's records for Budweiser and Bud Light put a 12 fl oz serving at 148 and 104 calories, and Budweiser Select at 101 — the lights cluster near 100, the regulars near 150, regardless of whose name is on the can.
Carbs and alcohol, not fat, carry the calories
Run the arithmetic on the bottle and it does not add up. Protein contributes about 7 calories, carbohydrate about 51, fat nothing at all. That accounts for 58 of the 155. Alcohol carries the rest, roughly two thirds of the total, and it never appears on a Nutrition Facts panel because it is not a nutrient the panel tracks.
This is why "low carb" marketing on beer moves the number less than it sounds like it should. Cutting carbohydrate from 12.8 g to 2.6 g removes about 41 calories on paper; the low-carb light record actually lands 58 below regular beer, because the alcohol dropped too. It is also why the craft row is the highest per 12 fl oz on this page while having the least carbohydrate of any beer listed.
For context on how many of these fit into a day, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans treat alcohol as calories that displace nutrients rather than supply them, and the CDC defines moderate drinking as up to two drinks a day for men and one for women. Two bottles is 310 calories, about what a modest lunch costs. If you are watching your intake and still want the beer, the cheapest fix is the glass, not the brand: bottles over pints saves more than switching to a different regular beer ever will.
How does Blue Moon compare?
| Drink | Per 100 g | US serving | Calories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Moon, regular wheat ale | 43 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 155 kcal |
| Hard cider | 56 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 202 kcal |
| Michelada | 33 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 119 kcal |
| Hard seltzer | 24 kcal | 12 fl oz (360 g) | 86 kcal |
Every serving in this table is our own arithmetic from each record's 100 g figure, scaled to a 360 g pour, so the four are directly comparable rather than being compared across different glass sizes.
Our take: of the four, only the michelada and the hard seltzer come in under a regular wheat ale, and the seltzer does it by 69 calories a can. If you drink three on a Saturday, that difference is 207 calories, roughly a fourth drink you did not have. Hard cider is the one to watch: it reads as the lighter, fruitier option and costs 47 calories more per serving than the beer. And a 16 oz pint of the wheat ale, at 206, is essentially a hard cider with extra steps.
Most popular blue moon brands in the United States
Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.
| Product | Calories (per 100 g) |
|---|---|
| Budweiser | 41 cal |
| Bud Light | 29 cal |
| Budweiser Select | 28 cal |
Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.
Blue Moon FAQs
How many calories are in a Blue Moon?
155 calories for a 12 fl oz bottle or can, using USDA's regular-beer record at 43 calories per 100 g. USDA does not publish a row for the brand, and beer labels are regulated by TTB rather than FDA, so a generic 5.4% ABV wheat ale is the closest published match.
How many calories in a pint of Blue Moon?
206 calories in a 16 fl oz pint, which weighs 480 g. That is 51 calories more than the 12 fl oz bottle, a 33% jump for a glass most people still count as one beer. Draft pours at bars and restaurants are usually pints, not bottles.
How many carbs does Blue Moon have?
12.8 g of carbohydrate in a 12 fl oz serving, which is 5% of the FDA Daily Value of 275 g. A 16 oz pint carries 17.0 g. None of it registers as sugar in the USDA record; the carbohydrate is mostly dextrins that brewer's yeast cannot ferment.
Does Blue Moon contain sugar?
0 g of total sugars in the USDA record for a 12 fl oz serving. Fermentation converts the simple sugars from the malt into alcohol and carbon dioxide, leaving carbohydrate that no longer counts as sugar. USDA does not publish added sugars for this record, so that line is not shown above.
Is Blue Moon a light beer?
155 calories per 12 fl oz puts it on the regular-beer row, not the light one: USDA's light-beer record is 104 calories for the same pour, a 51-calorie gap. Light versions are brewed to a lower alcohol and carbohydrate level, which is where the difference comes from, not from fat.
Blue Moon vs Bud Light: which has fewer calories?
Bud Light wins by 51 calories: 104 per 12 fl oz against 155 for a regular beer like Blue Moon. Carbohydrate splits the same way, 4.7 g against 12.8 g. Budweiser itself sits at 148, so the light brewing, not the brand, is what moves the number.
Is Blue Moon keto friendly?
12.8 g of carbohydrate per 12 fl oz is what has to fit your daily carb budget, and one glass takes a real bite out of a very low one. USDA's low-carb light beer record is 2.6 g for the same pour, and the higher-alcohol craft row drops to 1.0 g.
What are the nutrition facts for a 12 oz Blue Moon?
155 calories, 12.8 g carbohydrate, 1.7 g protein, 0 g fat and 14 mg sodium in a 12 fl oz serving, plus 97 mg potassium. Sodium is 1% of the Daily Value and potassium 2%. Fat, saturated fat, fiber and total sugars all read zero on this record.
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