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Domestic Shipments Rock in December

Despite reports of a beer sales slowdown in December, domestic shipments to distributors certainly didn't let up. The Beer Institute's Lester Jones estimates that domestic taxpaid shipments were up 5.6% (we did have two extra shipping days, although with brewery shipments that doesn't mean much, because they ship beer for the month based on forecasts, not based on shipping days). Likely December was used to beef up distributor inventories after domestic shipments were down in October and November. (So those

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