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Here's a List of the Booze Manufacturers Now Making Hand Sanitizer and Giving It Away for Free
"Any distillery can do it"
Alcoholic beverage manufacturers have plentiful supplies of the main ingredient required to make hand sanitizer. A bunch of them are making it and giving it away for free.
It's ironic that in these sobering times, the folks who make stuff to get you drunk are pitching in. A range of companies from LVMH to small-scale distilleries have started producing hand sanitizer, bottling it, and sending it out the door at no cost. As Bloomberg reports,
[Distilleries] are uniquely equipped to make hand sanitizer because the most effective germ-fighting ones are generally made with a base of 60%-plus alcohol, a product that distilleries have in abundance.
Beyond that, basic recipes include aloe vera for moisturizing; distilleries will also add the botanicals or flavorings from their signature spirits as a twist. Portland, Ore.-based Shine Distillery & Grill isn't treating its formula like a trade secret. "I have fielded some calls from Seattle and suggested they contact their local distilleries to tell them what we are doing," says general manager Ryan Ruelos. "Because any distillery can do it."
The one thing they cannot do, though, is sell their sanitizers: Sales of distilled spirits are strictly regulated by the government and could jeopardize business licenses. Instead, distilleries are giving them away to customers who come through their doors. In some cases, such as at Psychopomp Microdistillery in Bristol, England, donations from customers who take the sanitizer are being given to charity.
Both Bloomberg and Kottke mentioned several participating distilleries in their articles. We went through their links to put together this list:
Alabama
John Emerald Distilling Company, Opelika
Arkansas
Rock Town Distillery, Little Rock
California
Prohibition Spirits, Sonoma County
Connecticut
Litchfield Distillery, Litchfield
Florida
Copper Bottom Craft Distillery, Holly Hill
Georgia
Moonrise Distillery, Clayton
Old Fourth Distillery, Atlanta
Illinois
For medical organizations only: Koval Distillery, Chicago
North Carolina
Durham Distillery, Durham
New York
New York Distilling Co., Brooklyn
Oregon
Shine Distillery & Grill, Portland
Pennsylvania
Eight Oaks Farm Distillery, New Tripoli
Texas
Bendt Distilling Co., Lewisville
Blackland Distillery, Fort Worth
Milam & Greene, Austin
Vermont
Green Mountain Distillers, Morrisville
Mad River Distillers, Mad River Valley
Smugglers' Notch Distillery, Jeffersonville
United Kingdom
Psychopomp Microdistillery, Bristol, England
This is by no means a comprehensive list; if you know of a distillery near you that's making free hand sanitizer, please let us know in the comments and we'll add it to the list.
Please note:
- Some of these distilleries are, given current events, only open for a few hours a day.
- Some of the distilleries are experiencing packaging shortages and thus have BYOB requirements.
- At press time all of the listed distilleries were providing the sanitizer for free, though some suggested donations would be welcome.
Check their websites for opening hours and details.
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No indication of Carlsberg in Denmark doing this yet, so I'm going to pass it on. Thanks for the useful link.
A distillery in Nashville is doing it: https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-distillery-switches-from-gin-to-surface-and-hand-sanitizer
I'll add a shout-out to J&L Distilling in Boulder, Colorado (http://www.jldistilling.com/). I don't believe they are supplying to the public at the moment, but they are making sanitizer for the local fire department at no cost.
A Beer brewer is doing this in St. Louis.
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/foodblog/2020/03/19/four-hands-brewing-experts-at-hand-stuff-now-giving-away-hand-sanitizer