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Local beer company producing hand sanitiser

This story was posted 2 years ago
24 March 2020
in Business, Health
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West Indies Beer Company
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by Curlan Campbell, NOW Grenada

  • Coronavirus pandemic has led to global shortage of hand sanitiser
  • The Brewery to focus on producing hand sanitisers
  • First batch should be ready by this weekend

The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has subsequently led to a global shortage of hand sanitiser. One of Grenada’s beer-making companies has begun to produce hand sanitiser, following the lead of several global beer-making and alcohol-making companies.

The West Indies Beer Company (The Brewery) located at L’ance aux Epines, is known for their range of craft beers including Humdinger, Old Mongoose, and Black Rock. They have temporarily shut down the beer-making operation to focus on producing 500 hand sanitisers per day in the first instance.

Owner, Mark Heath said, “We have also shut down our brewing process and started to utilise some of our brewing vessels for the production of hand sanitiser. We started fermenting our first batch of 150 gallons last week which will be run through our experimental still before the end of next week, and subsequently mixed down and with glycerine and polypropyl glycol to the approved ethanol levels of greater than 60%. Some people will of heard about 70% but this relates to rubbing alcohol rather than ethanol.”

“We will in the first instance be making approximately 500 sanitiser bottles a day but will be stepping this up every few days as further batches come online. We will be selling the sanitiser at lower than pre-crisis price levels, and these sales will mean that sanitisers for hospitals, care homes, etc can be donated free of charge,” he said.

With the current shortage of sugar on the island, the West Indies Beer Company hopes that this will not significantly affect their operation. “Our envisaged operational issues may become the supply of sugar for the fermenting process as we are already experiencing sugar shortages and supply chain difficulties to obtain glycerine and polypropyl glycol which we are currently shipping down from Miami. Our first batch arrived on Amerijet who hope will fly every Monday, but we will additionally be sending supplies by sea this week as a backup in the case that Amerijet cargo ceases flying,” Heath said.

Heath said their first batch of hand sanitiser should be ready by this weekend. “We wish to say that we have received great support so far from our staff, government and the general public in this endeavour and in a time of limited good news we are pleased to be able to help,” he said.

To help improve social distancing, the company has also shut down the bar and restaurant.

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Comments 5

  1. John T says:
    2 years ago

    Hats off to this company… and an apparent good approach to CSR

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  2. KJ says:
    2 years ago

    Lovely job West Indies Beer Company…I am very proud of this company and my country. May God bless and keep us all while we turn our hands to act in faith to fight the Corona Virus. May you have all the supplies you need to make hand sanitizer for Grenada and may all that you ever put your hands to now and in future prosper for your generosity and selflessness at a time like this.

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  3. viola T Hackett says:
    2 years ago

    Am very proud that our Grenadians are stepping up and using common sense to make hand sanitizer for our hospital and nursing home, am a grenadian that lives in the uk working in a Hospital at the front line, well done , I which all the best ,

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  4. taylor says:
    2 years ago

    Made my own sanitizer this morning — rubbing alcohol 70% and aloe gel. I have used hand sanitizer for over 20 years and cannot understand why proper hygiene is such an anomaly to people.
    Kudos to Mark for his contribution to our safety but we all need to remember that proper hand washing with soap and water is the best defense.

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  5. somerandomguyp says:
    2 years ago

    very good

    Reply

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