COVID-19 hit British Columbia earlier this year, Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery felt it was the distillery’s duty to pitch in.
Coronavirus: Interior Health reporting community cluster at Big White Ski Resort The business temporarily switched to only producing hand sanitizer.“We thought if we are not here to protect our communities, if we just go on making whisky in a time of need, we are going to be on the wrong side of history on this,” said Tyler Dyck, CEO of Okanagan Spirits.So far, Okanagan Spirits said it produced more than $700,000 worth of hand sanitizer, some of which was sold to pay to manufacture more of the cleaning solution but a substantial portion of which was donated.“(We) donated about a half-million dollars of.