Drop what you’re doing: Beer Institute releases February 2019 domestic tax paid estimate

Ok, we’re a little late here, so maybe don’t drop anything too important, but the Beer Institute published an unofficial estimate of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for February 2019 (fairly recently). The February 2019 estimate is 11,198,000 bbls, a decrease of 0.4 percent vs. February 2018 removals of 11,244,618. Please note that the estimates reflect revised estimates released by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

Month	2018	2019	Percent Change	Volume Change
January	12,100,556	12,310,000	1.7%	209,444
February	11,244,618	11,198,000	-0.4%	-46,618
YTD	23,345,174	23,508,000	0.7%	162,826