Today, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for March 202. The March 2020 estimate is 14,300,000 barrels or bbls, a decrease of -0.5 percent vs. March 2019 removals of 14,370,000. Of course, it will be April’s numbers will be a real eye-opener when they are available, scheduled to be released on May 21. Ok, here we go with March (drum roll) … note these are 31-gal bbls.
| Month | 2019 | 2020 | Percent Change | Volume Change |
| January | 12,433,513 | 12,423,000 | -0.1% | -10,513 |
| February | 11,431,000 | 11,350,000 | -0.7% | -81,000 |
| March | 14,370,000 | 14,300,000 | -0.5% | -70,000 |
| YTD | 38,234,513 | 38,073,000 | -0.42% | -161,513 |
