Grab a brunch beer, kick up your feet and put on that green casino-style dealer visor. This week, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for July 2021: The July 2021 estimate is 14,400,000 barrels, a decrease of 6.4 percent compared to July 2020 removals of 15,385,000. Let’s get into this…
Domestic Tax Paid — TTB
(31 Gallon Barrels)
| Month | 2020 | 2021 | Percent Change | Volume Change |
| January | 12,457,030 | 13,115,000 | 5.3% | 657,970 |
| February | 11,403,438 | 11,781,000 | 3.3% | 377,562 |
| March | 14,642,562 | 14,772,000 | 0.9% | 129,438 |
| April | 13,482,522 | 14,557,000 | 8.0% | 1,074,478 |
| May | 13,850,735 | 14,926,000 | 7.8% | 1,075,265 |
| June | 16,216,000 | 16,100,000 | -0.7% | -116,000 |
| July | 15,385,000 | 14,400,000 | -6.4% | -985,000 |
| YTD | 97,437,287 | 99,651,000 | 2.3% | 2,213,713 |
The August 2021 domestic tax paid estimate is scheduled to be released on September 22, 2021.
