Bainbridge Organic Distillers sets aside finely crafted spirits to make hand sanitizer

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – For the first time, Keith Barnes’s distillery is making an alcohol product that you’re not supposed to imbibe.

Bainbridge Organic Distillers is joining a list of distilleries in Washington and around the country shifting operations to make hand sanitizer, a product desperately needed but in short supply during the coronavirus pandemic. The last he had heard, there were 26 distilleries across the state involved in some level, Barnes said.

Huge sacks of corn, weighing roughly a ton each, sit waiting in the back room at his distillery, where they’ll be turned not into the high-end spirits the shop’s patrons are accustomed to, but into hand sanitizer. For the next month and maybe longer, that’s the distillery’s product line.

“We’ve made special products that were limited-run products, but this is something completely different,” Barnes said.

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