December Domestic Shipments Down 4%, Bringing the Year to Just Under Flat

Dear Client: Well, 2021 domestic tax paid shipment trends went out with a whimper as December finished down 4%, Beer Institute's Danelle Kosmal reported yesterday.  That put full year shipments down ever so slightly, to -0.1%, at 169,154,000 million barrels. Perhaps those will be revised upward in the coming months. That's actually a pretty decent showing, considering the pantry loading-heavy 2020.  Full-year results show that 2021 domestic shipments started the first half positive through June, with April and May up