Maryland Whiskey Distillery Now Selling Hand Sanitizer

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Twin Valley Distillers, a whiskey distillery located in Rockville, is now making hand sanitizer on-site instead of its usual spirits. According to WJLA's live broadcast on March 23rd, the company is selling 4 oz bottles of hand sanitizer today at 8AM. This will be the third batch of hand sanitizer sold by Twin Valley. Bottles are $4 each and limited to 2 per customer.

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Via WJLA --

ROCKVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — It started as a joke, but Twin Valley Distillers has turned its production line of whiskeys, bourbons, and rums into a hand sanitizer factory, helping alleviate strained supply chains across Maryland.

The locally-owned business — and Montgomery County's only distillery — began tinkering with ingredients in recent days. It simultaneously applied for, and quickly received, federal approval to make the sanitizing product. it is using a recipe of ethanol, glycerol, aloe vera gel, lemongrass oil, and Vitamin E oil.

"The federal government said the application typically takes three weeks for approval. We got approval in two days," noted Jonathan Shair, General Manager and Head of Production for Twin Valley Distillers.

Shair explained he was recently out to dinner with a friend at a bar in Bethesda when the topic of Coronavirus, hand sanitizer, and distilleries came up in conversation. The idea was born...


“We started talking about hand sanitizer — and out of the seven or eight people, and the bartender that was there — every single one of them took my [business] card and said, ‘Hey when you’re ready, I’ll buy it from you,'" Shair added.

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Read the full article at WJLA.
To learn more about Twin Valley Distillers, visit their website.