Urban South Brewery
date: label: date made
content: ca 2022
label: date made
content: around 2022
notes: label: Description
content: In spring 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly and radically altered the American economy and social life, a variety of consumer products, including hand sanitizer, were suddenly in short supply. Some breweries and distilleries volunteered to produce hand sanitizer in the absence of access to major brands. Companies like these were uniquely positioned to manufacture hand sanitizer, with its high alcohol content, given these businesses' ability to access the raw ingredients required to produce alcohol as well as the expertise and equipment appropriate for the production, packaging, and sale of such a product.
label: Description
content: In April 2020, Urban South Brewery, a craft brewery in New Orleans, Louisiana, won a bid to manufacture 50,000 8-oz. bottles of hand sanitizer for Louisiana’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. At the time, nearby hospitals, grocery stores, nursing homes, and other small businesses were in urgent need of this product. By April 2021, the brewery had produced more than 120,000 bottles of hand sanitizer. It also donated hand sanitizer to more than 150 public schools in Louisiana.
label: Description
content: This brewery's pivot to produce hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic is reminiscent of actions taken by American breweries a century earlier, during Prohibition. When Prohibition began in 1920, breweries were prohibited from brewing beer. To stay in business, many converted their facilities to the production of a variety of alternate products, including non-alcoholic tonics, cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and even ceramics.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
topic: label: associated subject
content: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
label: associated subject
content: Infectious diseases
label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: associated subject
content: 2019-nCoV disease
label: associated subject
content: Disease prevention
label: related event
content: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Urban South Brewery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0070.1
label: accession number
content: 2022.0070
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0070.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plastic bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in