USA: Beer shipments down an estimated 4.6% in 2022

U.S. brewers shipped an estimated 161,586,015 barrels of beer in 2022, a -4.6% decline versus 2021, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing domestic tax paid estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), Brewbound reported on January 26.

The decline is equivalent to a loss of 7,762,205 barrels of beer year-over-year (YoY). It is significantly larger than the YoY decline recorded in 2021 (-0.7% YoY, or -1,141,606 barrels).

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