Drink This: Distillery switches from gin to hand sanitizer

The coronavirus has thrown all of our lives into chaos. Most of us are staying home all day and all night, working from our dining room tables and teaching our children in our living rooms.

Brewers and distillers are no different. March has brought with it a number of surprises. One is that most of them are now serving customers curbside instead of barside.

For some, the changes have been more dramatic.

From gin to hand sanitizer

Business was slowing down for Lynnwood’s Temple Distilling as the quarantine ramped up. Then AJ Temple, owner and distiller for Temple Distilling, began seeing other distillers changing operations to make hand sanitizers. And then he started getting phone calls asking if Temple was making the alcohol-based cleaner.

So the distillery changed over from making gin to hand sanitizer. In the past week, Temple has pumped out hundreds of 1-liter bottles of hand sanitizer instead of the well gin he was planning to make. All of it is going to hospitals, medical personnel and first responders.

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