Beer Institute Releases December 2017 Domestic Tax Paid Estimate

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for December 2017:

The December 2017 estimate is 12,519,000 barrels, a decrease of 8.0% versus December 2016 removals of 13,615,000. Please note that the estimates reflect revised estimates released by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

Month	2016	2017	Percent Change	Volume Change
January	12,698,756	12,951,000	2.0%	252,244
February	12,951,553	11,724,000	-9.5%	-1,227,553
March	15,411,120	14,945,000	-3.0%	-466,120
April	14,749,656	14,134,000	-4.2%	-615,656
May	15,684,117	16,272,000	3.7%	587,883
June	16,801,412	16,858,000	0.3%	56,588
July	15,108,833	14,413,000	-4.6%	-695,833
August	16,239,037	15,531,000	-4.4%	-708,037
September	15,177,702	14,426,000	-5.0%	-751,702
October	13,041,204	13,726,000	5.3%	684,796
November	12,423,000	12,567,000	1.2%	144,000
December	13,615,000	12,519,000	-8.0%	-1,096,000
YTD 2017	173,901,390	170,066,000	-2.2%	-3,835,390

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