Both distilleries are offering 375 millilitre bottles of the hand sanitizer. (Latitude 55/Facebook)

By Emily Keller

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Local distilleries now distributing hand sanitizer

Apr 2, 2020 | 1:42 PM

Broken Oak and Latitude 55 Distilleries in Grande Prairie are now distributing their made-in-house hand sanitizer.

Around the middle of March, Broken Oak and Latitude 55 announced they were beginning to make hand sanitizer to help the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, with store shelves continuing to sit bare of the product due to increased demand.

Shawn Herbert, Co-Founder of Broken Oak, says the first step was finding all the proper ingredients for the sanitizer.

“What we’re putting into it is a lot different than what we would normally use in our alcohol, so we had to find everything, and there’s a bit of a demand for the products that we were needing, like glycerol for instance. There’s a lot of other distilleries across the province and across Canada that are doing it now, so there’s a bit of a supply shortage.”

Herbert says Broken Oak will be open from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. April 2, distributing the hand sanitizer.

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“We have 375 millilitre bottles that we are having people come, just give us a donation, however much they can afford, or it doesn’t have to be anything at all.”

The distillery has also placed a limit of two bottles per household.

Herbert adds that they will be open on April 3 as well, and all the donations raised for both distilleries will go to local charities.

He does say that for those wanting to come buy and pick up some of the hand sanitizer, that they will be letting people in one at a time to abide by the social distancing guidelines set out by the province, and that they have also increased their disinfection procedures at the distillery.

Latitude 55 began distributing the sanitizer on April 1 and say they will distribute again soon and are taking orders over the phone.