Actually, there’s nothing breaking or top secret about this post. We just get excited when the Beer Institute sends over its domestic tax paid estimate. Is that weird? Also, we apologize for anything confusing in that headline. Moving forward, the Beer Institute just published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for November 2016. Here she flows…
The November 2016 estimate is 12,508,000 barrels, an increase of 1.4 percent versus November 2015 removals of 12,330,000 barrels. Please note that the estimates reflect revised estimates released by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
| Month | 2015 | 2016 | Percent Change | Volume Change |
| January | 12,934,475 | 12,717,000 | -1.7% | -217,475 |
| February | 12,444,482 | 12,937,000 | 4.0% | 492,518 |
| March | 15,311,089 | 15,406,000 | 0.6% | 94,911 |
| April | 15,013,124 | 14,698,000 | -2.1% | -315,124 |
| May | 15,607,664 | 15,644,000 | 0.2% | 36,336 |
| June | 16,865,805 | 16,607,000 | -1.5% | -258,805 |
| July | 15,896,326 | 15,188,000 | -4.5% | -708,326 |
| August | 15,647,131 | 16,198,000 | 3.5% | 550,869 |
| September | 15,671,830 | 15,212,000 | -2.9% | -459,830 |
| October | 14,195,000 | 13,159,000 | -7.3% | -1,036,000 |
| November | 12,330,000 | 12,508,000 | 1.4% | 178,000 |
| YTD | 161,916,926 | 160,274,000 | -1.0% | -1,642,926 |
