Imports Still Carrying the Water

Imports have done it again. Lester Jones of the Beer Institute (and a Beer Summit speaker) has announced that imported beer shipments for November were up almost 16%. That puts year-to-date import shipments up almost 13%.Once again imported beer sales were lead by Mexican beers. Mexican beers were up a whopping 30% in November, and 16% YTD. Some of that is likely due to trade restocking now that the Corona bottle shortage is over. With the eastern Corona price increase,