U.S. brewers shipped an estimated 14.6 million barrels of beer in August 2022, a 2.4% increase compared to August 2021, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing domestic tax paid estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
August shipments broke four consecutive months of negative shipment trends and was just the second month this year that shipments exceeded those in 2021. March was the only other month this year in which shipments were in the black, increasing +1.5%, to nearly 15.3 million barrels.
Shipments declined in January (-11.8%), February (-8.2%), April (-7.1%), May (-3.6%), June (-3.3%), and July (-5.5%).
Year-to-date through August, shipments have declined -4.2%, to more than 109.9 million barrels, compared to the same eight-month period in 2021. Those declines amount to nearly 4.9 million barrels of the 114.8 million barrels shipped through the same period in 2021.
September 2022 shipment data is expected to be released October 25.