With a shortage of hand sanitizer, two Whatcom distilleries are making their own

A couple of local distilleries are stepping up by making hand sanitizer and giving it out for free to the community.

Bellewood Farms and Chuckanut Bay Distillery each began distributing their versions last week after stores experienced shortages of the commercial product. Bellewood Farms was giving away 16 ounces of its Farm Hands sanitizer to each person, while Chuckanut gave away around 200 of its 50 milliliter bottles on Saturday, March 21.