Last week, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for September 2021. Are you ready for this? The September 2021 estimate is 14,800,000 barrels, a decrease of 5.1 percent compared to September 2020 removals of 15,603,000. Now, let’s look at the numbers more closely.
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 | 16,380,679 | 16,393,000 | 0.1% | 12,321 |
| July | 15,494,042 | 14,473,000 | -6.6% | -1,021,042 |
| August | 15,045,000 | 14,550,000 | -3.3% | -495,000 |
| September | 15,603,000 | 14,800,000 | -5.1% | -803,000 |
| YTD | 128,359,008 | 129,367,000 | 0.8% | 1,007,992 |
