Manchester's Share Tops $62K In Latest CT Nips Sales Surcharge Payout

MANCHESTER, CT — Manchester's share topped the $60,000 mark as a total of $2.56 million was distributed to municipalities in the latest round of Connecticut's Nickel-Per-Nip program.

Statistics for the latest reporting period — April 1 through Sept. 30, 2026 — were recently released by the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Connecticut.

Over the five years of the program, about $25 million has been paid out to towns and cities.

A total of 1,250,135 nip liquor bottles were sold in Manchester over the past six months. That has been a consistent six-month number for the Silk City since the inception of the program and again that ranks among the tops in the state.

The sum of $62,506.75 was returned to the town.

Under the program, each municipality receives 5 cents for each nip liquor bottle sold sold within its borders every six months. The nickel is charged to customers at the point of sale. The funding is intended for locally driven environmental stewardship programs.

The table below lists the amount of nip bottles sold and the allocation of payments for Connecticut municipalities covering the six-month period from April 1 through Sept. 30, 2026: