Benton County distillery making and donating hand sanitizer

Wind Hill Distillery started making hand sanitizer when county leaders noticed their first responders were running out of the vital product.

Is a need for first responders and other essential business.

I talked to a distillery in benton county that is now making hand sanitizer..

And donating it.

< (nats( usually wind hill distillery would be making their signature alcohol products.

"we are here to make craft spirits."-tom clifton co-owner of wind hill distillery but since the outbreak of covid-19..

The benton countyusiness has changed their operations.

"we never thought that we would be a pharmaceutical company.

Our intention was to make a beautiful sipping alcohol and here we are making hand sanitizing solution."- tom clifton co-owner of wind hill distillery the distillery started making hand sanitizer when county leaders noticed their first responders were running out of the vital product.

"our concerns were the county courthouse and our ems and ema and our first responders.

Plus our deputies and our police departments."- brian barry county commissioner, benton county when the local business heard about the need they got to work.

"what we have to do here to make hand sanitizer is we have to jack that proof up to 190.

So we have to distill our alcohol 5 times to get it that high."-tom clifton co- owner of wind hill distillery and instead of selling the products the distillery decided to help out during this time of need.

"we've donated everything that we've made probably up to 18 gallons so far.

Tonight we will bottle another nine gallons and that will be shipped out."tom clifton co-owner of wind hill distillery while the local business is looking forward to getting back to normal..

Making the hand sanitizer has given them some ideas for the future.

"we thought about having a little bottle of that you'd hang on the neck of a nice bottle of rum and say you know you buy a bottle of rum you get a free bottle of hand sanitizer so there is always a marketing idea out there."- jim powell co-owner of wind hill distillery