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Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel

posted by martyb on Friday March 20 2020, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the Not-to-be-taken-internally dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Al Jazeera:

Scotland's ability to manufacture (and consume) alcohol such as Scotch whisky may be world-renowned, but Scottish distilleries are today joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Responding to a global shortage of hand sanitiser, which has seen barren supermarket shelves across Scotland and the United Kingdom as demand outstripped supply, some Scottish spirit makers have begun a novel form of alcohol production that, just days ago, would have been seen as laughable.

[...] "This idea was not even 24 hours old," said Andrew Mackenzie, owner of Verdant Spirits, before he decided to switch production from gin to hand sanitiser earlier this week, following requests from local caregivers in Dundee, eastern Scotland.

Don't drink the hand sanitizer, even if it smells delightfully like Glen Alba.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday March 20 2020, @02:14AM (4 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Friday March 20 2020, @02:14AM (#973371)

    Good lord! A bottle of rum with a flame arrestor on the neck. Now I've seen everything.

    The raw spirit that comes out of my still is roughly 80% alc/vol and there no way I would drink that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:24AM (#973378)

    Above 80 is questionable, but anything below that I consumed numerous times. That's including rubber alcohol for early mainframe disk drives cleaning and aircraft braking fluid. Fear not.

  • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday March 20 2020, @02:30AM (1 child)

    by legont (4179) on Friday March 20 2020, @02:30AM (#973381)

    It was nice in cocktails, but especially useful when added to a bowl of ice cream for a visiting lady.
    All the usual medical/cleaning tasks as well.

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    "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:47AM (#973391)

      --- added to a bowl of ice cream for a visiting lady

      Dude, Mr Weinstein, that sounds rapey AF.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @02:41AM (#973388)

    > The raw spirit that comes out of my still is roughly 80% alc/vol and there no way I would drink that.

    Why not I drink my grandpa's semen and I'm only 52 years of age. He sure has a dance in his step after every milking session.