((PKG))  COVID DISTILLERY DISINFECTANTS    
((Banner:  Distillers Change Course))  
((Reporter:  Ozlem Tinaz))
((Camera:  Celal Cevirgen))  
((Adapted by:  Philip Alexiou)) 
((Map:  Falls Church, Virginia))   
((Main characters:  1 male))  
((Sub characters:  1 female; 1 male))
((Popup Banner:  During the COVID-19 pandemic, an 
alcohol distillery lends a hand))  
((NATS: 
Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery  
Whoop.  We’re still pumping.  
Kallie Stavros, Employee, Falls Church Distillery 
Oh yeah.  We were still filling this. 
Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery  
Okay.  All right.))  
((Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery))   
We still produce our whiskeys and our vodkas and our 
gins.  We still have our alcohol or our spirits that we produce 
but we’ve obviously pivoted.  We’ve pivoted into making 
sanitization.  It's the same type of process.  We're using the 
same whiskeys, our base spirits that we would use to make a 
lot of our other products.  
((NATS)) 
((Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery))  
Our plan was only to do this for today and help people out 
like nursing homes and hospitals and first responders and 
the elderly, you know, the hard targets of this whole nasty 
thing.  It’s blown up into being much more than that.  It’s 
blown up to be a business.  I mean, I don’t know.  We’ll see 
how long it lasts, how long the need lasts. 
((NATS)) 
((Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery)) 
When the governor issued their new regulations, it’s 
maximum 10 patrons at a time.  It is impossible for a 
restaurant to staff the restaurant and a bar and make any 
money that way.  So, that effectively put us out of business at 
the bar/restaurant.  Luckily, we had the second business here 
that we’re springing off of, which is the distillery.  What we, 
I’ve been able to do is re-employ all of those bar 
personnel.  So, all the kitchen and all the bar people will be 
filling jugs and working full time.  So, that’s another good side 
benefit, right?  That everybody gets a job still because all 
those people I had to lay off last Sunday, on Tuesday I got to 
rehire.  
((NATS)) 
((Kallie Stavros, Employee, Falls Church Distillery))   
It’s nice to be able to do something that is helping people. 
Obviously, it’s really hard to find.  I went on Amazon just to 
look at what was available on Amazon and it looks like 
people are ripping everyone off.  So, it's nice to just kind of 
help the local community and still have a job actually.  I feel 
really lucky right now.  
((NATS))  
((Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery))   
Prices right now is important to us.  I mean, that was a very, 
very important thing to us, to not gouge, right?  I mean, 
because that’s what you're seeing now.  You’re seeing 
people buy up, whether it’s toilet paper or hand sanitizer and 
then trying to charge exorbitant prices for that.  That is part of 
what we were battling here, plus the need and plus the 
reasonableness of fulfilling that need.  
((NATS)) 
((Matthew Quinn, Customer, Falls Church Distillery))  
I have a company down the street and all of our, everything we’ve 
used, is out.  All of our containers are half-full and we’ve got to try 
to fill them back up.   
((NATS))  
((Michael Paluzzi, Founder, Falls Church Distillery))   
We're producing about 300 [1135 liters] gallons of sanitizer right 
now.  We could easily do that every day if we could get the 
supplies, but we believe that we are on a plan to, at least, produce 
another thousand gallons [3785 liters] next week and hopefully 
continue to try to double that.   
((Matthew Quinn, Customer, Falls Church Distillery))   
I think all of us are trying to do what we can.  I think seeing small 
businesses step up and provide this type of service is fantastic. 
((NATS)) 
((Popup Banner:  In the days following filming, the distillery took 
more stringent health safety measures both within the workforce 
and with customers.))