80mg clean caffeine·Nothing stacked on it·Zero sugar·No sucralose or aspartame·10 cal·Real carbonated coffee·Low-acid
Same reach. Cleaner can.
The part you’ve been doing to yourself
Reaching for another one, and the last one still hasn’t worn off?
That’s the loop, and it sounds strange the moment you say it out loud: the reason you need the second can is the first can. You read the feeling as tired — the buzzing, the not-quite-settled, the heart still going from the one before — so you fix it with more of exactly what caused it. And the aisle helps you do it — because every can in that fridge is arguing about sugar, and not one of them is arguing about how much caffeine it just handed you. Here’s what’s actually in each door.
Sugary sodas
39gof sugar
Roughly ten teaspoons in a can. The spike, then the slump — and the slump is what sends you back for the next one.
Sugary lattes
40gof sugar
A dessert hiding under the foam. You feel it by 3 p.m. — and by then you’ve already ordered the second one.
“Zero sugar” sodas & energy drinks
0gsugar*
*Sweetened with sucralose & aspartame instead — synthetic sweeteners. Energy versions stack up to 200mg of caffeine, and often list guarana separately — so the number on the front isn’t the whole number.
ESSELATE
80mgand nothing stacked on it
Real coffee, chilled and gently carbonated. One honest dose — no guarana, no taurine, nothing riding along with it. Zero sugar and 10 calories, so there’s nothing to come down from. A whisper of stevia, no sucralose, no aspartame, and low-acid so it’s easy on your stomach.
Follow what actually happened. First they stirred sugar into everything — soda, coffee, the energy can. Then people started reading labels, so instead of taking the sugar out and leaving it out, they swapped in sucralose and aspartame and printed ZERO on the front. Same drink. Different sweetener. That was the whole reform.
And here is what every one of them missed. Sugar is what makes the afternoon land hard. It is not what makes you jittery at 10:30, or wired without being sharp, or reaching for a second can to fix a feeling the first one gave you. That part is dose. Two hundred milligrams at once, on an empty stomach, asks a lot of a body — and plenty of those cans list guarana on top of the caffeine number, so the number on the front was never the whole number. Every one of them arrived wearing the word “upgrade.”
So if you already made the switch — quit the soda, moved to the zero-sugar version, and honestly felt no different — that was not you failing at it. You removed the only part they let you remove. The 200mg came with you.
So the fix was never one more thing added. It’s two numbers, brought back down to something a body can actually run on all day.
That’s the whole of what ESSELATE is. Real coffee, chilled — and where sugar or milk used to round off the bitter edge, the carbonation does it instead. The bubbles carry the coffee the way milk once did, so it drinks smooth and a little creamy with nothing added to make it that way. 80mg of clean caffeine — one honest dose, with no guarana, no taurine and no niacin stacked on top of it. Zero sugar, so there is nothing to come down from. Ten calories, and a whisper of stevia is the only sweetener in the can — no sucralose, no aspartame, no syrup, no milk, no fruit sugar.
They fixed the label. We fixed the number that was running your afternoon.
You didn't have a rough afternoon. You had a morning.
Think back to how it actually goes. The first can is at nine, before food. By ten-thirty something is off — not tired exactly, just not settled. So you read “off” as tired, and you fix it the only way the aisle ever taught you: another can. Then the afternoon lands hard, and that gets blamed on the day you had.
It was the morning. Two hundred milligrams before breakfast, and a second one on top to fix what the first one started. ESSELATE is that same ritual with the number brought down to one honest dose — 80mg of real coffee, chilled and gently carbonated, at zero sugar and 10 calories. Craveable enough that you actually want it. Crushable enough that you don’t need a second one to get through the day.
Most people don’t love coffee. They tolerate the bitter part for the lift. ESSELATE is real coffee, chilled and lightly sparkling — the bubbles do what sugar and milk used to, so it drinks smooth instead of sharp. No sugar, no sucralose, no syrup, no dairy. Craveable, crushable, and 10 calories.
We would rather tell you how this actually goes than sell you a moment that doesn’t happen. Here is the honest version of the first week, including the part that isn’t flattering.
Day one
You notice what is missing before you notice what is there. No hit at nine, no drop at ten-thirty — just a flat, unremarkable morning. That is the entire point, and on day one it can honestly feel like nothing happened.
Days two and three
This is the hard part, and we are not going to hide it. If you have been running on 200mg, 80mg will feel light for a couple of days while your baseline comes back down. Some people ride it out on one can and a glass of water. Some drink two on day two. Both are fine. It is short.
“I’m calmer and more dialed in at work without the caffeine shakes. Best swap I’ve made this year.”— Michael K., Verified Buyer
End of week one
The tell is not energy. It is that you stop reaching. Ten-thirty arrives and there is nothing to correct, so the second can quietly stops being a decision you make.
“By 2pm I used to crash and reach for a third coffee. One ESSELATE and I stay locked in till I log off — no jitters, no crash.”— Sarah M., Verified Buyer
Week two
By now it is just the drink you like. Cold, sparkling, real coffee at ten calories — craveable enough that you are not white-knuckling a health decision every afternoon. That is the part that makes it stick.
“Smooth real coffee, no weird aftertaste, no sugar crash — just clean focus. It’s part of my daily routine now.”— Jessica L., Verified Buyer
The whole change takes about a week. The guarantee runs thirty days.
“Zero sugar always tastes like zero sugar.” Not this one.
You know the taste being described — the thin, chemical sweetness that tells you exactly which sweetener they used. That flavour comes from sucralose and aspartame, and there is neither in this can. ESSELATE starts as real coffee, chilled and gently carbonated, and the bubbles do the rounding-off that sugar or milk used to do. A whisper of stevia sits behind the coffee rather than on top of it. The result is craveable, and genuinely crushable — the cold brew you already order, just lit up, at zero sugar and 10 calories. Not coffee-flavoured soda. Not an energy drink pretending to be coffee.
“So what actually sweetens it?” Stevia extract, and nothing else. Zero sugar, zero sucralose, zero aspartame, no syrup and no fruit sugar stirred back in.
“Creamy with no milk — how?” Texture, not dairy. The carbonation carries the coffee the way nitrogen does in a nitro pour, so it drinks round and smooth instead of thin and bitter. No oat, no almond, no whole.
“Isn’t fizzy coffee harsh?” It’s low-acid and easy on the stomach. Soft bubbles, never sharp.
“Is 80mg really enough?” The steady lift of a small latte, and it’s a deliberate number rather than a small one by accident. It’s enough to feel bright without handing you the 200mg that makes 10:30 a.m. feel the way it does — and with no sugar in the can, there’s nothing to come down from either.
“Tastes like real cold brew, not chemicals or sweetener. I don’t miss the sugar at all.”— Erin K., Verified Buyer
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Let’s say the quiet parts out loud
Everything you were about to go Google.
You have doubts. You should — we just spent this whole page telling you to read labels. So here they are, answered straight, including the two that don’t flatter us.
“I don’t like stevia. It has that aftertaste.”
Fair, and usually earned. Most stevia drinks fail because stevia is doing all the work — at that concentration it turns bitter and hangs around. Here it isn’t the flavour, it’s a rounding-off. There is just enough to take the edge off real coffee and not nearly enough to lead, which is why the first sip reads as coffee rather than as sweetener. Different amount, different job. And if it still isn’t for you, that is exactly what the 30 days are for.
“Potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate are on your own ingredient list.”
They are. We are not going to pretend otherwise on a page that spends this long telling you to turn the can around. They are preservatives, in the amounts a shelf-stable can needs to stay safe without a cold chain — that is the trade for shipping you a drink that doesn’t need refrigeration. We would rather name them here than let you find them on the back and wonder what else we quietly skipped. What is not in there: sugar, sucralose, aspartame, high-fructose corn syrup, dairy, and anything stacked on top of the caffeine.
“‘Natural flavors’ is a black box.”
It is the vaguest thing on our label, and we know it. In our can it is the coffee-side aromatics that carbonation otherwise strips out. It is a real term with a real legal definition, but it is still the one line we can’t make more specific for you on a label — so if that is a dealbreaker, we would rather you knew now than at the fourth can.
“I drink my coffee black. Why would I need this?”
You might not, and we’d rather say so. If you have one cup, black, in the morning and you feel completely fine at three o’clock, you are not who this was built for. This is for the person on their second or third can of something — or the person who only drinks coffee when it’s sweet enough to not taste like coffee.
“Is this going to auto-ship me cans forever?”
No. There is no subscription on this page and no box to un-tick. You buy cans, we send cans. That is the entire relationship.
“Is 80mg every day actually fine?”
It is less caffeine than most people’s single morning cup, with no sugar underneath it. Same common sense as coffee applies: eat something first, and don’t drink it at four if you want to sleep at ten. If you are pregnant, nursing, or managing anything caffeine-sensitive, ask your doctor before you change what you drink. We make a beverage, not medical advice.
“Carbonated coffee sounds disgusting.”
It sounds far worse than it drinks. Nitro cold brew is already gas-charged coffee and nobody blinks at it. Same idea, colder and lighter — the bubbles lift the aroma and round off the finish, which is the job sugar and milk used to do.
If none of those stopped you, the only thing left to find out is what it tastes like.
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Read their caffeine line. Then read ours.
ESSELATE
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Plain Cold Brew
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Plain Cold Brew
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Energy Drinks
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Soda
Calories
Caffeine Level
Sugar
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Ingredients
10
80mg Nothing stacked on it
✅ Zero Sugar
Creamy, Smooth, Real Coffee
No Sucralose or Aspartame
Plain Cold Brew
5-15
80mg
✅ Zero Sugar
Flat & Bitter
Simple
Energy Drinks
10-200
220mg
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Flat & Metallic
Scary Long, Artificial
Soda
0-150
30-50mg
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Refreshing, yet Artificial
Very Artificial
Calories
Caffeine Level
Sugar
Taste
Ingredients
10
80mg Nothing stacked on it
✅ Zero Sugar
Creamy, Smooth, Real Coffee
No Sucralose or Aspartame
Plain Cold Brew
5-15
80mg
✅ Zero Sugar
Flat & Bitter
Simple
Energy Drinks
10-200
220mg
❌
Flat & Metallic
Scary Long, Artificial
Soda
0-150
30-50mg
❌
Refreshing, yet Artificial
Very Artificial
The honest mirror
ESSELATE is for you if…
You’ve had the 10:30 feeling and filed it under “just how I am”
You’ve reached for a second can to fix what the first one did to you
You quit soda for the zero-sugar version and honestly never felt any different
You’d rather run the day on one honest dose than on 200mg and 40 grams of dessert
Why people switch
The can you reach for instead.
Real coffee at 80mg, zero sugar, 10 calories — a straight swap for the soda, the energy drink and the sugary latte, without the sugar, the synthetic sweeteners, or the dose that has you reaching for a second one.
Instead of the 3 p.m. soda
The same cold fizz, at zero sugar — and no sucralose or aspartame standing in for it. Craveable enough that you don’t miss the old one.
Instead of the energy drink
80mg of clean caffeine instead of up to 200mg, with nothing stacked on it and none of the 39 grams of sugar underneath.
Instead of the afternoon latte
Real coffee at 10 calories — no syrup, no milk, no dessert in disguise, and no queue.
Instead of settling
The can you actually want. Crushable, 10 calories, and it doesn’t ask you for a second one.
About ESSELATE
One honest dose. All day. No second can.
80mg — nothing stacked on it
Zero sugar, 10 calories
Real coffee, chilled and carbonated — 80mg of clean caffeine, zero sugar, 10 calories. One honest dose with nothing stacked on top of it: no guarana, no taurine, no niacin. Sweetened with a whisper of stevia, never sucralose or aspartame. Smooth, low-acid, never bitter, in every 12 oz can.
Not soda with a different sweetener. Not an energy drink pretending to be coffee. Real coffee, lit up — craveable, crushable, and 10 calories.
What makes it work
80mg clean caffeine — one honest dose, with no guarana, taurine or niacin riding along with it
Zero sugar — and zero sucralose or aspartame — a whisper of stevia is the only sweetener in the can
10 calories — no syrup, no dairy, no fruit sugar poured back in, so there is nothing to come down from
Real coffee, chilled and carbonated — not flavoured soda, not coffee extract
Smooth and low-acid — the bubbles round it off instead of sugar or milk
Keto-friendly and vegan — 2g carbs, nothing animal-derived
No sugar. No sucralose. No aspartame. No high-fructose corn syrup. No dairy. And nothing stacked on the caffeine — no guarana, no taurine, no niacin. Real coffee, made sparkling — zero sugar, 10 calories, 80mg clean caffeine.
Caffeine: 80mg per 12 fl oz can
Calories: 10
Total fat: 0 g
Sodium: 15 mg
Total carbohydrate: 2 g
Total sugars: 0 g
Added sugars: 0 g (0% DV)
Protein: 0 g
Diet: Keto-friendly, vegan
Serve cold. Chill thoroughly before opening — it tastes better cold and a fully chilled can opens clean (no gushing). Swap it in for one soda, one energy drink or one coffee-shop run a day: same ritual, same time of day, one honest dose instead of two.
The full label
Everything in the can. Including the parts nobody puts on the front.
Most cans make you turn them around and squint — and the caffeine line is usually the one they would rather you skipped. Here is the whole thing, in plain numbers, before you buy it.
80mgClean caffeine. Nothing stacked on it
10Calories
0gSugar. Not reduced — zero
2gCarbs. Keto-friendly, vegan
What is sweetening it — and what is not
A whisper of stevia. That is the only sweetener in the can.
No sucralose. No aspartame. This matters because most zero-sugar cans did not remove the sweetness, they swapped one sweetener for a lab-made one and kept the same intensity. We went the other way: use less sweetness, and let the coffee carry the drink.
That is also why the first sip reads as coffee rather than as candy. There is not enough sweetener in it to lead.
It also means you can drink it like a drink rather than knock it back like a shot of something. Craveable, crushable, and 10 calories.
Why we carbonate real coffee
Cold coffee has an edge to it. The two normal ways to cover that edge are sugar and dairy — that is what a sweet iced latte is doing.
Carbonation does the same job without either. The bubbles lift the aroma and round the finish off, so the coffee lands smooth without a spoon of syrup or a splash of milk holding it together.
It is real coffee, chilled and gently carbonated. Not soda with coffee flavoring, and not coffee extract mixed into something else.
What 80mg actually feels like
80mg is the steady lift of a small latte. It is deliberately not the 200mg-plus load an energy drink hands you, and it is deliberately the only source of caffeine in the can — no guarana, no taurine, no niacin riding along with it.
The reason we stopped there: the jittery, wired feeling people describe from energy drinks is mostly a dose problem, and the hard afternoon landing is mostly a sugar problem. There is no sugar in this can to come down from, and the caffeine is set at a level you can have in the morning without negotiating with it at 2 p.m.
That is the whole design goal. One can that does the day, instead of one that creates the reason for the second.
The two names people ask about
Potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate. They are preservatives, and they are the reason this can ships and sits in your cupboard without a cold pack.
The alternative is not a cleaner can, it is a refrigerated one — a cold chain from our facility to your door, which is both worse for the drink and worse for what it costs to get to you. We took the trade, and we would rather explain it here than hope you do not turn the can around.
What we did not trade: there is no sugar, no sucralose, no aspartame, no high-fructose corn syrup, no dairy, and nothing riding along on top of the caffeine.
Low-acid, and why that is the whole trick
Bitterness and acidity are what make people reach for milk and sugar in the first place. If you build the coffee to be smooth and low-acid up front, you do not need to bury it afterwards.
That is the difference between this and a plain cold brew in a can: same zero sugar, but flat and bitter is a very different drink from smooth and sparkling.
Nutrition figures are per 12 oz can as printed on the label. ESSELATE is a beverage, not a supplement, and is not intended to treat or prevent anything.
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Why we made it
We wanted one can that wasn’t lying to us.
We love coffee. What we stopped loving was what the aisle had done to it. One shelf held 39 grams of sugar. The next held the same can with sucralose and aspartame and ZERO on the front. And the one after that held 200mg of caffeine with guarana stacked on top, sold to us as energy — the can you grab at ten-thirty to fix what the nine o’clock one started. Every option was either sugar, a substitute for sugar, or a bigger number. So we made the one we actually wanted to drink: real coffee, sparkling, 80mg and nothing stacked on it, zero sugar, 10 calories, a whisper of stevia and nothing synthetic.
Every can is the one we reach for ourselves. If yours is ever not right, tell us once and we’ll refund you in full — a promise from our whole team, not a line buried in a footer.
How should I store it, and does it need refrigeration?
No. ESSELATE ships and stores shelf-stable — no cold pack, no fridge required. Chill the cans before you drink them: it tastes better cold, and a fully chilled can opens clean without gushing. The can is aluminum and fully recyclable.
What sweetener do you use — and is there any sucralose or aspartame?
None. A whisper of stevia extract is the only sweetener in the can — no sugar, no sucralose, no aspartame, no high-fructose corn syrup. It sits behind the coffee rather than on top of it, so there is no syrupy or chemical aftertaste.
Is it really zero sugar? And keto, vegan, gluten-free?
Really zero. 0g total sugars and 0g added sugars per 12 oz can, at 10 calories and 2g carbs. Keto-friendly, vegan and gluten-free, with nothing animal-derived in the ingredient list.
How fast does it ship, and what does shipping cost?
Orders leave in 1–2 business days. Shipping is free anywhere in the U.S., with no minimum to hit.
What if I don't like it?
30-day money-back guarantee. Tell us once and we'll refund you in full — no forms, no return shipping.
How is this different from a zero-sugar soda or energy drink?
Two things. First, what does the sweetening: most zero-sugar cans use sucralose or aspartame, and ESSELATE uses a whisper of stevia and nothing synthetic. Second, the caffeine line. Energy drinks run up to 200mg and often list guarana on top of that number, so the front of the can is not the whole story. ESSELATE is 80mg — one honest dose, no guarana, no taurine, no niacin — in real coffee, chilled and gently carbonated, rather than flavoured water. Same zero on the label. Completely different can.
There are a few sparkling coffees now — how is this one different?
Every other one is still adding something — fruit, syrup, a bigger caffeine number, and usually a few grams of sugar to carry the flavour. ESSELATE goes the other way and takes things off: real coffee, made smooth by carbonation instead of milk or sugar, zero sugar, nothing synthetic, 10 calories.
I'm used to 200mg. Will 80mg actually be enough?
For most people it is, and usually sooner than they expect. 80mg is roughly a small latte, and a good part of what a 200mg can gives you is the spike plus the harder landing that follows it. Because there is no sugar in ESSELATE to come down from, the 80mg tends to hold flatter and longer than a bigger number does.
If you are stepping down from two or three energy drinks a day, give it about a week — and if it still is not enough for you, the 30-day money-back guarantee is there for exactly that.
How long does a pack last most people?
Most people drink one a day, in the slot where the old can used to go — mid-morning or early afternoon. A 4-can pack is roughly the first four days, which is enough to know whether you like the taste. Whether the habit changes takes about a week, which is why the guarantee runs for thirty days rather than four.
Is there a subscription, or will I be auto-charged?
Neither. There is no subscription on this product and nothing to un-tick at checkout. You buy a pack, we ship a pack, and nothing happens again until you decide it does.
Will the carbonation bother my stomach the way soda does?
Usually less, for two reasons. The coffee is built low-acid up front rather than being sweetened into submission afterwards, and the carbonation is deliberately soft rather than sharp. There is also no sugar in it, which is often the part people are actually reacting to. Drink it fully chilled — a cold can is gentler and opens clean.
The Promise
One honest dose. No second can.
Two ways this goes. You keep the loop — the can at nine, the one at ten-thirty to fix what the first one started, and an afternoon you have already written off. Or you swap one drink a day for a week and find out what the day actually feels like on one honest dose.
Only one of those options can cost you anything. If it does not become your ritual, you tell us once and we refund you in full — no forms, no return shipping, thirty days. Which means the risky choice here is the one where nothing changes and you keep buying the second can.
Same morning. Same cold can in your hand. Different number — and a four o’clock you’re still awake for.
