When the coronavirus pandemic began, Christmas City Spirits in Bethlehem, Pa., stopped its production of drinkable alcohol and instead made hand sanitizer, which it donated to essential workers.
killed approximately 50 million people worldwide, Fellin stayed alive with a little help from her spirits.caused by the 1918 flu pandemic. She often regaled her grandchildren with stories of how she would soak her gauze mask in homemade whiskey before stepping in to save lives.With this bit of anecdotal history on their minds, the ownership group of Christmas City Spirits in Bethlehem, Pa., and Dombrosky, its head distiller, pledged to step up during theIn early March, St.
“We just felt like we were doing the right thing at the right time,” said Brett Biggs, one of the distillery’s four co-owners.Members of the ownership group all have day jobs. Biggs, for example, works as a financial adviser, while one of his partners is a lawyer and another a real estate agent.
At the ownership meeting, Dombrosky brought up his grandmother’s guidebook to surviving a pandemic, just as a lighthearted urban legend. But Grandma was on to something.
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