From the U.S. to the U.K. to Australia, gin distilleries around the world have been producing hand sanitizers to help the vulnerable protect themselves against the novel coronavirus.
Several gin distilleries across the United Kingdom have been giving away the sanitizers they’re producing at no cost, with one, Psychopomp and Circumstance, handing out bottles and requesting optional donations to charity in return.
“We’re giving it away to vulnerable people – it’s our response to stock-piling and price-gouging,” says Psychopomp and Circumstance co-director Liam Hirt to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We don’t want to make any money out of the crisis. We’ve all got vulnerable people in our lives.”
Distilleries across several other nations are taking on similar initiatives: Koval Distillery in Chicago, U.S.A, for example, is producing sanitizer to help “the medical community, retirement homes and those on the front lines in this war against COVID-19”. And another gin distillery in Australia, SevenZeroEight, is stopping their production of gin to focus on producing hand sanitizer instead.
