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As the novel coronavirus spread across the globe and health officials implored the public to use more hand sanitizer to mitigate the potentially deadly pathogen, grocery stores and online retailers saw the product evaporate from their shelves. Desperate first responders and others on the frontlines of the battle against the pandemic grew alarmed, but in walked an unlikely savior: the booze industry, which shifted gears to churn out sanitizer using alcohol it had on hand and following a recipe approved by the World Health Organization. But U.S. federal regulators -- trying to balance safety concerns with a rising demand for...

<p>DAWSONVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Moonshine distillers are making their first batches of legal liquor in this tiny Georgia town's city hall, not far from the mountains and the maroon, orange and gold canopy of trees that once hid bootleggers from the law.</p>

Kentucky Distillers: Governor's Alcohol Tax Plan Bad For Our Business, Bad For Our Families Thu Feb 10,11:16 AM ET To: State Desk Contact: David Wojnar, 508-662-0661, or Lisa Hawkins, 202-682-8840, or Sarah Rosen, 202-682-8857, all for the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S., Web: http://www.distilledspirits.org FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Master Distillers from Kentucky's famed bourbon distilleries today addressed the Kentucky House Appropriations and Revenue Committee to explain why Gov. Ernie Fletcher's proposal to raise taxes on beverage alcohol would hurt Kentucky's home industry, push consumers to purchase home-grown products in other states and potentially hurt their business...

Julien Jourdes for The New York Times Ali Shawn and the selection of whiskeys at Bemelman's Bar in the Carlyle in New York. LYNCHBURG, Tenn. COULD this possibly be the place where the nation's — and soon, perhaps, the world's — best-selling whiskey is distilled? This cluster of anonymous, uninspiring buildings, not in Kentucky or in Scotland but in a remote, silent valley in Moore County, Tenn.? Yes, indeed. As it has been since 1866, every single drop of Jack Daniel's, seven million cases a year, is made here in Cave Spring Hollow, amid the gentle hills about 75 miles...