Distillery owners rejoice after $14,000 fee for making hand sanitizer during pandemic waived We kind of got this alarming and sudden notice that we re going to have to pay $14,000 in February, Owner of Stumpy s, Adam Stumpf, told 5 On Your Side Author: Justina Coronel (KSDK) Updated: 10:40 PM CST January 2, 2021
ST. LOUIS During the pandemic, booze stopped flowing at some distilleries and many owners decided to take a shot at creating hand sanitizer.
Over in Columbia, Illinois, Stumpy s pumped out 20,000 gallons of hand sanitizer.
St. Louis Distillery in St. Charles also pitched in to help out. They would forego the usual application process that a distillery would have to do to make hand sanitizer because there was this need, co-owner Bill Schroer said. We produced about 1,200 gallons of hand sanitizer and probably 1,000 of that went to first responders and nursing homes.