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DES MOINES — Iowans continue to buy liquor, beer and wine at record clips, but the pace of sales is leveling off, according to yearly figures released Tuesday by the state Alcoholic Beverages Division.

Wholesale sales of spirits in fiscal 2014 totaled $263.5 million, a level that was up 3 percent or $7.7 million from the previous year’s record. Last fiscal year’s growth rate was the second lowest yearly increase in a decade that saw a steady rise in alcohol consumption, according to the division's fiscal 2014 report.

“It’s a slight increase, not huge,” division spokesman Robert Bailey said. “It’s a solid year.”

In addition to the state revenue from spirits profits, funds generated by excise taxes on wine and beer, license fees and civil penalties translated into a state general fund transfer of more than $119 million, a figure that was about equal to fiscal 2013, division officials said. Most of the funds are appropriated to a variety of state programs by the Iowa General Assembly, and $19.4 million are allocated to the state Department of Public Health for substance abuse programs and more than $3.6 million from sales of licenses are given to cities and counties issuing the licenses.

Overall, sales of all categories of alcoholic beverages in Iowa totaled nearly $302.7 million.