Kin Spritz: The Most Expensive Can, and the Least Information
Photograph: Adobe Stock, licensed 20 August 2026. A generic non-alcoholic spritz, not the product reviewed below.
Kin Euphorics essentially invented the modern non-alcoholic functional drink as a lifestyle category, and Kin Spritz is its everyday product. It looks superb, it tastes distinctive, and it is genuinely a nice thing to be holding instead of a glass of wine.
It is also the only product we checked where you cannot learn the amount of a single active ingredient.
Price, direct: $39.00 for 8, $57.00 for 12, $90.00 for 24. Best rate $3.75 a can
Price, Amazon: $138.98 for 24, which is $5.79 a can. Buy this one direct
Format: 8 fl oz (237 mL) sparkling can, one serving per can
Caffeine: Present, as caffeine anhydrous, amount not published
Actives named: GABA, L-theanine, citicoline sodium, 5-HTP, L-tyrosine, phenylethylamine, rhodiola rosea extract standardised to 1% salidrosides
Milligrams published: None, for any of them
Disclosure tier: 4, proprietary blend
What a proprietary blend actually costs you
Ingredients are listed by weight, so ordinarily the list itself is a rough ranking. A proprietary blend suspends that. Everything inside the bracket is one entry, and its internal order and its internal amounts are the manufacturer’s.
Kin’s bracket holds seventeen things, including four vitamins and minerals and two thickeners alongside the actives. So “proprietary blend” here does not even mean a blend of nootropics. It means a blend of nootropics, micronutrients and xanthan gum, sitting at one unknown weight, on the most expensive can in the category.
The most frustrating detail is the rhodiola. It is specified as standardised to 1% salidrosides, which is the correct, serious spec, the sort of thing a formulator writes when they care. And then the amount is withheld, so the standardisation tells you the concentration of a quantity you do not know.
Buy it direct, not on Amazon
This is the one product on this site where the Amazon listing is a worse deal, and it is not close. A 24 pack is $90.00 from Kin and $138.98 on Amazon, so the marketplace costs you $48.98 for the identical case.
We earn a commission on Amazon links and we earn nothing on this one, so it is worth saying plainly: the link below goes to Kin’s own store, we make no money from it, and it is still the right link.
What it does well
It is the best-designed thing in this category by some distance. The can, the flavour, the whole ritual of it. If your goal is to not be holding a drink at 7pm and still enjoy yourself, this works.
The formulation is at least ambitious. Citicoline, 5-HTP and L-tyrosine are not decorative choices. Somebody thought about this. They just will not tell you the outcome of the thinking.
What it does badly
$3.75 a can is the top of the market. That is 35 percent more than Moment, 29 percent more than Odyssey, and more than six times Four Sigmatic per serving, and it is the only one of them you cannot compare on anything but taste.
Undisclosed caffeine in an evening drink is a real problem. Kin Spritz is marketed for social occasions, which are often at night, and it contains caffeine anhydrous at an amount you cannot find out. Every other product here publishes its caffeine or has none.
5-HTP is not a casual ingredient. It interacts with SSRIs and other serotonergic medication. An undisclosed amount of it in a drink sold as a social beverage is the one thing on this site we would call genuinely worth flagging to your doctor.
Who should buy it
- People buying an alcohol replacement where the occasion and the object matter more than the formula
- Anyone who has tried it, likes how it makes them feel, and has decided the label does not matter to them. That is a legitimate position, taken with open eyes
Who should buy something else
- Anyone on an SSRI or other serotonergic medication, until you have asked a pharmacist about the 5-HTP
- Anyone who wants an evening drink with no caffeine: Recess Mood and Moment are both caffeine free and about a dollar a can cheaper
- Anyone who wants to know what they are drinking
Verdict: A beautiful product with the worst label in the category, at the highest price in the category. We would drink one happily at someone else’s house. We would not stock a fridge with them at $3.75 a can to buy a formula nobody will describe. If you do buy it, buy it from Kin, not Amazon.