11 Apr, 2020 @ 13:22
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CHEERS: Whisky distillery switches production to anti-coronavirus alcohol disinfectants

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A COMPANY in Granada has become the first booze distillery in Spain to start producing alcohol-based disinfectant sprays. 

Liber SL, in the municipality of Padul, has now received a permit to make the product to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic. It also means it has been able to avoid laying off staff during the crisis. 

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THAT’S THE SPIRIT: Alcohol production has been switched to disinfectant gels.

The company’s management has decided to stop making its Embrujo-branded whisky and Mamut label vodka and gin as well as other drinks and switch entirely to denaturised alcohol for disinfectant sprays and gels. 

The company’s management explained that as it has the technical team and facilities to produce a hydrogel formula, they decided that it was more important to fight coronavirus than provide booze. 

Rather than being bottled in pharmaceutical-style packages, the gel is being distributed in bottles more usually used for vodka. 

Once ready the product is being sent on for distribution by companies in the pharmaceutical sector. It can also be bought direct from Liber.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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