Does less volume mean more better beer? I’d like to think so. People who are smarter than I will be pouring over the real number implications, but on the face of it brewers shipped a little less beer so far this year, with pumpkin-beer-buying August showing one of the biggest jumps of all. This is from the Beer Institute’s press release:
WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 2016 – Today the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers:
The August 2016 domestic tax paid estimate increased 3.3% compared to August 2015. August 2016 removals were 16,172,000 barrels, and removals in August 2015 were 15,651,000 barrels (revised).
|
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 | 16,866,000 | 16,607,000 | -1.5% | -259,000 |
| July | 16,068,000 | 15,286,000 | -4.9% | -782,000 |
| August | 15,651,000 | 16,172,000 | 3.3% | 521,000 |
| YTD | 119,895,834 | 119,467,000 | -0.4% |
-428,834 |
