
Recently, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for April 2019. The April 2019 estimate is 14,106,000 barrels, a decrease of 0.2 percent vs. April 2018 removals of 14,128,149 barrels. Please note that the estimates reflect revised estimates released by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
| Month | 2018 | 2019 | Percent Change | Volume Change |
| January | 12,132,180 | 12,310,000 | 1.5% | 177,820 |
| February | 11,270,617 | 11,198,000 | -0.6% | -72,617 |
| March | 14,646,425 | 14,347,000 | -2.0% | -299,425 |
| April | 14,128,149 | 14,106,000 | -0.2% | -22,149 |
| YTD | 52,177,371 | 51,961,000 | -0.4% | -216,371 |