Located in its namesake Templeton, Iowa (about ninety miles from Des Moines), the Templeton Rye distillery will be located on the company’s 20-acre parcel and will consist of a 34,500 square-foot distillery that will be able to produce 500,000 proof gallons of whiskey annually as well as an aging warehouse that will be about to hold 40,000 barrels at a time.
The goal, according to co-founder Keith Kerkhoff, is to have the new distillery open within eighteen months. Once open, tours of the production facilities will be available, allowing visitors to get a peek at how they make their rye.
Templeton currently has three expressions—their flagship rye whiskey and two age statement whiskies (a six year and a ten year) that are intended to be the first releases in a special reserve line of whiskies. If you’ve tried any of them, it was whiskey sourced from a Lawrenceburg, Indiana (something that Templeton has, thankfully, not shied away from disclosing) that was then finished and bottled at the Iowa facility. While it’ll be a few years before Templeton Rye is fully made in Templeton, the new distillery is certainly a big move in the right direction.
And Templeton isn’t the only whiskey distillery to open a new plant. Bulleit opened their new facility earlier this year as well.
