Because you need to know everything: Here’s an estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for Dec. 2020

Now that you are spending way more time at home, perhaps this is your best opportunity to find posts about beer taxes interesting. Let’s test your muster: Last week, the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for December 2020: The December 2020 estimate is 13,800,000 bbls, a decrease of 0.2 percent compared to December 2019 removals of 13,825,000. What does it all mean? Here’s a year in tax numbers to help you figure it out.

Domestic Tax Paid – TTB

(31 Gallon Barrels)

Month	2019	2020	Percent Change	Volume Change
January	12,433,513	12,423,000	-0.1%	-10,513
February	11,430,829	11,325,000	-0.9%	-105,829
March	14,512,347	14,533,000	0.1%	20,653
April	14,231,974	13,437,000	-5.6%	-794,974
May	15,175,568	13,774,000	-9.2%	-1,401,568
June	15,878,059	16,216,000	2.1%	337,941
July	14,885,484	15,385,000	3.4%	499,516
August	14,369,816	15,000,000	4.4%	630,184
September	14,796,000	14,800,000	0.0%	4,000
October	13,168,000	13,250,000	0.6%	82,000
November	12,396,000	12,300,000	-0.8%	-96,000
December	13,825,000	13,800,000	-0.2%	-25,000
YTD	167,102,590	166,243,000	-0.5%	-859,590

The January 2021 domestic tax paid estimate is scheduled to be released on February 25, 2021.