A Shot of Sanitizer with Your Local Rum: Industry Night Podcast

The last eight weeks of this ongoing pandemic have been filled with incredible stories of people in the food, restaurant, and hospitality industries taking their current model and turning them on their heads in order to survive. On this episode of Industry Night, Nycci spoke with Jordan Cotton of DC’s first rum distillery, Cotton & Reed. Jordan, his partner Reed Walker, and the rest of their team saw what was coming early on in the pandemic and realized that with the closing of area bars and restaurants and their own bar/tasting room, they were going to have to come up with another plan. Enter hand sanitizer. While it is a welcome quick fix for Cotton & Reed now, what is in it for them and the distillery in the long term? Listen to the whole story on FullService Radio.