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Photo of the hand sanitizer made by Daft Brewing

Alumni Brew up a Contribution to Kingston Health-Care Workers

Shan Jhamandas, MBA카지노 게임 컬렉션™05, and Greg McLeod, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션™09, go way back to 2009, when Greg had just graduated and Shan gave him his first job. Fast forward 11 years, and the two not only remain friends, they co-own a brand new Kingston brewery that is making a difference for local frontline health-care workers.

카지노 게임 컬렉션œWe have been working on Daft Brewing for four years, and we opened January 25, 2020,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Greg. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œBefore COVID, we only had seven weeks under our belts of actually being open to the public. And now it seems like we are running a hand sanitizer company.카지노 게임 컬렉션

If you카지노 게임 컬렉션™re wondering how a brewing company finds itself producing and donating hand sanitizer, the story goes back to 2018, when the Daft team was buying equipment for the brewery. On a whim, they decided to add an alcohol still to their order, even though they had no plans to brew anything other than beer. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œIt was a complete impulse buy,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Greg says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œWe카지노 게임 컬렉션™re not a distillery. We bought the still, and forgot about it.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Greg and a third co-owner, Adam Rondeau, were looking for ways to recalibrate their young business. After learning that alcohol distillers were repurposing their stills to make hand sanitizer, they decided to take theirs out of storage.

With family members working in healthcare 카지노 게임 컬렉션” Greg카지노 게임 컬렉션™s wife is a nurse and Adam카지노 게임 컬렉션™s wife is an anaesthesiologist 카지노 게임 컬렉션” they saw an opportunity to make a difference. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI think a lot of people feel very powerless with this, and this is a chance to be empowered and try and do something good about it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Shan.

Daft Brewing received its official COVID license from Health Canada, and over the course of about three weeks, they have produced more than 430 litres of hand sanitizer.

They credit the Kingston community for incredible support right from the beginning. Less than 12 hours after the Daft team announced its new plans on its social media channels, local businesses and individuals reached out with a number of items to support the initiative. 카지노 게임 컬렉션œI showed up to the brewery one evening and Adam was on the phone and he was sitting on 2,000 pounds of sugar. An anonymous donor gave us 2,000 pounds of sugar,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Shan.

카지노 게임 컬렉션œThat카지노 게임 컬렉션™s what has enabled us to distribute this stuff for free,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Greg. Daft Brewing is donating all of its hand sanitizer to frontline health-care workers including local hospitals and nursing homes.

카지노 게임 컬렉션œThis and other initiatives show there is always a chance for people to work together no matter what is going on,카지노 게임 컬렉션 adds Shan.