The Beer Institute releases domestic tax paid estimates for August

beer barrels dark — Probably not the barrels they’re talking about.

We just didn’t feel like talking about taxes last week, even though the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers, which usually gets us more excited than Jessie Spano on pills. This week, we’re feeling it. The August 2016 domestic tax paid estimate increased 3.3 percent compared to August 2015. August 2016 removals were 16,172,000 barrels, and removals in August 2015 were 15,651,000 barrels (revised). Feel free to peruse the numbers below at your own convince.

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