Rob Rubens, owner of R6 DISTILLERY in El Segundo, and Garrett Grengs fill empty bottles with a batch of hand sanitizer made at the distillery during the coronavirus pandemic on in El Segundo. U.S. distilleries and other businesses that began making hand sanitizer as the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the country are being reprieved from thousands of dollars in user fees …
CNN — Off the southwest coast of Scotland lies a collection of small islands that make some of the most distinctive whiskies in the world. “All distillery staff were furloughed during lockdown,” says John Campbell, manager at Islay’s Laphroaig Distillery. Fortunately Arran’s whisky lockdown didn’t last as long as Islay’s because the island’s two modern distilleries, Lochranza and Lagg, were …
