Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/11/distillery-accidentally-sold-g.html
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I have been known to mix aloe with margarita. Basically hand sanitizer.
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From what I have heard, distilleries haven’t made much money from their hand sanitizer products. People weren’t as willing to buy as they had hoped.
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Given how expensive hand sanitizer has become, getting that instead of gin sounds like a real bargain.
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We’ve secretly replaced Bob’s gin and tonic with hand sanitizer and toilet water… let’s see if he can tell the difference…
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Nausea, headaches, dizziness and vomiting are side effects of overcompsuntion of gin as far I recall…
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Huh. I was in a chemist the other day - they had a clearance bin for the handsanitizer and wipes no one want anymore.
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Wait until you open your borders again.
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Yeah, they have ramped up production so much that I think it’s actually cheaper now than it ever was. At least from my anecdotal observations.
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May I add a perspective from the other side of the world?
Naming something alcoholic “SS Casino” is just the worst choice.
Putting a symbol on it resembling an iron cross is gross.
Printing it in Nazi flag red doesn’t help.
Filling it with disinfectant is, at the very least, ambiguous.
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Most people wouldn’t taste the difference. *ducks*
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Hand sanitizer? Gin tastes more like aftershave, imo
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“Gin was as mother’s milk to her.”
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Industrial-grade ethanol?
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I remembering reading about a staging of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf where cast actually drank alcohol in the amounts presented in the play. I seriously doubt that they tried that more than once.
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I think it depends on where you’re at. It’s still pretty much the only hand sanitizer you can find here in New York. Aside from occasionally finding mini bottles of Purel at a supermarket.
The other end of it is that distilleries haven’t seen the same drop in alcohol sales that breweries have. So it turned out to be more of a helping out thing than a save your business thing.
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Looks far more like a marine signal flag to me, especially with all of the other watery references. The iron cross isn’t that shape, isn’t oriented in that direction, and is black.
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I use this for mixing shellac (eg KS Green, as opposed to KS regular, which is half ethanol and half methanol), as well as for general cleaning. It is more drying than isopropanol, so probably not the best thing for hand sanitizer, and apparently is not as good for coronavirus as isopropyl, but unless people are trying to drink it or snort it I’m not sure I see the problem.
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