DC distillery giving away hand-sanitizer during coronavirus outbreak

Call it brilliant marketing or just doing a public service but a D.C. company is getting attention by giving away hand sanitizer with its whiskey deliveries.

The owners of the Republic Restoratives Distillery in Northeast are using some of the high-grade alcohol they have in supply to make the bacteria killer.

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Technically, it can't be sold because there are no rules about giving it away. 

One of the hardest supplies to get right now for do it your self sanitizers is high-grade alcohol, which the distillery has lots of.

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