{"id":44560,"date":"2020-03-26T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380917"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T14:46:36","slug":"how-the-craft-alcohol-industry-is-helping-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/how-the-craft-alcohol-industry-is-helping-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"How the craft alcohol industry is helping during the coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like many distilleries across the nation, Breckenridge Distillery has started to produce hand sanitizer to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The sanitizer is free, but the distillery is accepting donation to the U.S. Bartender’s Guild.<\/strong>
\nJessie Unruh-Brossman \/ Breckenridge Distillery<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FRISCO \u2014 Breweries and restaurants across the country have had to shift to to-go options after the coronavirus outbreak led to the shutdown of taprooms and dining rooms. In Summit County, that means the craft beverage community is offering beer and spirits in bottles, cans or growlers rather than on draft or in a cocktail at the bar, and the companies are coming up with meaningful ways to get customers in the door \u2014 such as donating to charity.<\/p>\n

Breckenridge Distillery made the pivot to takeout with its food options, even giving meals to elementary school students, but it is also following in the footsteps of other distilleries in America by producing hand sanitizer. Made with ethanol \u2014 which the distillery has in abundance \u2014 along with glycerol and hydrogen peroxide, the 1-ounce bottles are available for free at the distillery\u2019s Airport Road location with a suggested donation to the U.S. Bartenders Guild.<\/p>\n

According to distillery spokeswoman\u00a0Jessie Unruh-Brossman, the first batch of about 1,000 went quickly, and production will begin again when they receive more bottles for the sanitizer Thursday, March 26. The distillery\u2019s restaurant and tour employees have been assigned to mix the ingredients, but access to glycerol and vessels has been the limiting factor. To keep the facility and workers safe, the distillery is not accepting donations of bottles from the community.<\/p>\n

Another hindrance has been the government, but Breckenridge Distillery is keeping pace with the changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re constantly adapting to make sure we\u2019re following the rules and regulations, and its tough,\u201d\u00a0Unruh-Brossman said, referencing the labeling and ingredient regulations set up by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau as well as the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve answered the call and spent several thousand dollars on incoming supplies to provide hand sanitizer as fast as possible during an epidemic, but the only bottle size we\u2019re able to get can\u2019t even fit all the required legalese and disclaimers,\u201d distillery founder Bryan Nolt wrote in an email. \u201cWe would love to see these agencies dramatically simplify the process and allow us to help our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the distillery reaches the point where it can donate in bulk, it plans to give the product in larger quantities to those who need it, such as the fire departments, grocery store employees and food pantry workers at the Family & Intercultural Resource Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to support the community the best that we can with limited resources,\u201d\u00a0Unruh-Brossman said.<\/p>\n

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Outer Range Brewing in Frisco is collecting non-perishable food to donate to the Family & Intercultural Resource Center. Those who donate get 20% off to-go beer.<\/strong>
\nLiz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Knowing that the resource center\u2019s food pantries are being hit hard<\/a>, Outer Range Brewing Co. started a canned food drive last week. Patrons can bring one canned or nonperishable good to the brewery\u2019s taproom and receive 20% off their order of to-go beer in return.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never discounted our cans before, but we thought that in this case it would be a good cause to get people out there, donating the cans for those in need,\u201d said Emily Cleghorn, co-owner and chief marketing officer.<\/p>\n

So far the brewery has received more than 400 pounds of donated food and provided over $2,500 in discounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people here are struggling, so we weren\u2019t sure how it was going to go,\u201d Cleghorn said. \u201cSo to see this overwhelming response in this time of uncertainty \u2026 a lot of people are trying to save these nonperishables for themselves, so to see so many people step up and give it to those who are in more need than themselves, even though we\u2019re all in need, is pretty inspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because canned beer is one of the only ways to stay in business right now, Outer Range is paying it forward and lending canning materials at cost to breweries like Angry James Brewing Co. in Silverthorne and Breckenridge\u2019s Broken Compass Brewing. Outer Range staff packaged 17 cases of beer for Angry James and 55 cases for Broken Compass last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a win-win because we\u2019ve been able to help them get back out there and get their beers to people, and it helps us give shifts to our staff who lost quite a bit of shifts when we closed our taproom,\u201d Cleghorn said.<\/p>\n

Broken Compass is also in the generous spirit and donating 10% of all sales \u2014 canned, bottled or in a growler \u2014 to help suicide prevention efforts in Summit County. The brewery has been canning with Outer Range since last spring to make its Ginger Pale Ale portable for rafting season, and the relationship continued when co-owner Lee Cleghorn reached out to Jason Ford, owner of Broken Compass.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that to-go sales are all there is, Lee didn\u2019t have to reach out and work hard for us to be able to do this along with him,\u201d Ford said. \u201cHe went above and beyond, and we really appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A specific charity hasn\u2019t been decided on, but Ford said he has a few in mind and wants to spread the wealth to those that touch on suicide, such as the resource center.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuicide has been an issue for a while, and this is definitely not going to help that situation,\u201d Ford said. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to be up here. \u2026 It\u2019s not easy, so we support each other. That\u2019s just how life is up here. People are coming in to support us, and we want to give back just like they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Like many distilleries across the nation, Breckenridge Distillery has started to produce hand sanitizer to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The sanitizer is free, but the distillery is accepting donation to the U.S. Bartender’s Guild. Jessie Unruh-Brossman \/ Breckenridge Distillery FRISCO \u2014 Breweries and restaurants across the country have had to shift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:12:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44621,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44560\/revisions\/44621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}