March 28, 2024

Templeton Rye plans to add distillery at Iowa facility

TEMPLETON — Templeton Rye plans to distill whiskey at its bottling facility in west-central Iowa. The company is adding distilling equipment and warehouses at its plant in Templeton, a Carroll County town of about 360 residents. In 2015 the company settled lawsuits over labeling the whiskey as “small-batch rye” made in Iowa when it actually was a stock whiskey made by MGP Ingredients in Lawrenceburg, Ind.