Moore says their situation is changing “by the hour” but seems optimistic that the problems of supply, funding, and allocation to those who need it most can all be solved: “This is going to be a big change for our business, but I guess we’re going to be manufacturing hand sanitizer for a while.”, Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, U.S. daily coronavirus cases exceed 129,000, third day over 100,000, Romaine lettuce recall 2020: Tanimura & Antle recalls single heads of romaine for possible E. coli contamination. Privacy Policy As the COVID-19 virus spreads, store shelves have emptied of hand sanitizer, creating shortages for health care workers, first responders, and the general public. “About three weeks ago, we were just a little distillery making vodka, gin, and bourbon, and living a pretty relaxed lifestyle,” Craig Moore, owner of Old Fourth Distillery, said. Distiller William Border fills  five gallon buckets (left) and 250 gallon containers (right) with the sanitizing solution, to be collected by local law enforcement agencies and first responders, Head distiller, William Border tries different recipes for the sanitizer, as gel from aloe plants is in short supply. We're trying to make spirits for the new South. 'Looking back on it, the first batch probably wasn't very good,' he said and then laughed. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Moore says they got the idea from Shine Distillery in Portland, Oregon, which is using distillate by-product to make hand sanitizer.

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At Old Fourth Distillery, the Moores are finding themselves trying to solve problems they couldn’t have anticipated a couple of weeks ago. ATLANTA — An Atlanta business that specializes in manufacturing booze has switched the operation to make hand sanitizer, and they are giving a lot of it away to those who need it the most. Moore explained they were hand filling the sanitizer, pouring it into five-gallon buckets to distribute to city agencies, and also initially let people come with their own bottles to fill. But for now, they are no longer accepting donations and Moore warned of unscrupulous people who had hijacked their photos and started a bogus Instagram account soliciting donations. The Most (and Least) Energy-Expensive States.

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) -- Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, Old Fourth Distillery has been distributing make-shift bottles of hand sanitizer. “I catch rain water to bathe in and wash my clothes,” he says. From our sister publication: The Pennsylvania Business Report, Natural gas in the time of a pandemic. “Old Fourth Distillery is doing the community a wonderful service, and we are glad to support them,” Jeff Franklin, Southern Company senior vice president of Supply Chain Management, said. 'I had two staffers drive all over Atlanta and buy any aloe they could,' he said. We saw the work they were doing (in Washington) and figured we could use our high-proof alcohol and buy a little bit of aloe and get it into our community.”. “It has cost us…whatever. We live and die on people going out, and they’re not going out,” says Jeff Moore, co-owner of Old Fourth Distillery with his brother Craig.

We can’t just sit idly by.”. ', Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Jeff and Craig Moore, brothers and co-owners of Atlanta's Old Fourth Distillery,  saw business drop over night. Intown Collaborative Ministries is still on their list, but they also just received a request for 5,000 gallons from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency which will be able to pay for the order out of emergency funds. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 'The last thing we wanted to do is tell people that we were stopping giving it out'.

As the COVID-19 virus spreads, store shelves have emptied of hand sanitizer, creating shortages for health care workers, first responders, and the general public. 'I had two staffers drive all over Atlanta and buy any aloe they could find,' Jeff told DailyMail.com, Jeff Moore, head distiller, pours a container of aloe vera into a mixing tank where it will be combined with 190-proof alcohol to create hand sanitizer solution. “We’ve got all this down time, and we need to do something. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. 'All hell broke loose,' he said. 'We just did what we had to do to be guys of our words. “We’re just trying to figure out how to bankroll this whole thing, because we didn’t imagine the response. Full Name * Company Name. “Old Fourth Distillery is doing the community a wonderful service, and we are glad to support them,” Jeff Franklin, Southern Company senior vice president of Supply Chain Management, said. “A lot of our population is aging as well, we have a lot of older folks on the street who don’t have access to water or port-a-potties.”. America has struggled to keep up with an adequate supply of things like hand sanitizer since the outbreak of COVID-19 began, and that’s spurring some creative solutions, and equally creative partnerships, like the union of an electric company and a local distillery in Georgia. |   That’s been a little bit of a challenge for us,” says Moore. We have to support our staff.'. They used their resources to produce much-sought hand sanitizer, which they distributed free to anyone in need. Our business is already basically shut down. All rights reserved. Old Fourth has made about a hundred gallons so far, and given it all away. Moore explained that he was buying bottles from Amazon, and that a shipment of aloe vera he was expecting didn't arrive.



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