I would say Templeton Rye is false advertising the brand. They lead you to believe it's home grown in Iowa and they can only make so much of it. They say it's Capones Recipe and it's all nonsense after reading the article. I would say it's pretty dang good though.
Templeton Rye is a Fake
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Mississippi River Distillery out of LeClaire makes great bourbon and has a rye whiskey. They distill all of their products on site and all ingredients come from within 90 miles of LeClaire. It also helps that the owners are ISU graduates. I am not a rye whiskey fan but their bourbon is my favorite of all i have tried and the other spirits they distill have been excellent.
People adopt the "local is better" stance waaaay too easily. Not too long ago, just about every city had its own bakery, brewery, cobbler, tailor, furniture maker, and so on. There was a lot of redundancy and inefficiency, and we spent a much higher share of our incomes on basic consumer products like food and clothing.
Fast forward a few years, and technology and a vastly improved transportation infrastructure has enabled mass-production to capitalize on economies of scale, comparative advantage, better site locations, and so on. The result is more competition and vastly cheaper products.
Hate on it all you want, but it's the very thing that's enabled you to have a higher standard of living than your grandparents.
Fast forward a few years, and technology and a vastly improved transportation infrastructure has enabled mass-production to capitalize on economies of scale, comparative advantage, better site locations, and so on. The result is more competition and vastly cheaper products.
Hate on it all you want, but it's the very thing that's enabled you to have a higher standard of living than your grandparents.
But yeah, Templeton Rye definitely uses deceptive marketing. I'm not sure why this Daily Beast reporter thinks that's such a groundbreaking revelation, though.
No we get that. That is not what we are saying. We are saying we like the technology and the Rye. We are also saying that they falsly brand the Rye. It's not really made in Templeton like we thought.
I agree, but do you drink it because you enjoy the taste or because you thought it was distilled in Iowa?
I'll just add that the same factors I outlined earlier have made it harder and harder to define what a "local" product even is. Take Cedar Ridge...I'll bet any sum of money that they use some inputs that are sourced outside of the state (e.g., they're probably not fabricating their own stills, blowing their own glass bottles or mining the sand used to make them, producing the paper used for the labels or the glue used to affix them to the bottles, and so on).
I read something just this week about this. I knew that many of these whiskeys come from MGP in Indiana, but one side affect I hadn't thought about was that so many people are drinking MGP whiskeys they now think that is how rye whiskey is supposed to taste like. So when they try rye whiskey sourced from elsewhere, they claim it doesn't taste right.
My fiancé's uncle has a connection. He calls it his hooch or "the real stuff". I was surprised by how smooth it is.
I wonder if Templeton screwed themselves by making this move?
I remember semi-weekly threads about where to find it. Now they've flooded the market and it's hard to tell if it's just too easy to get so not as much talk, or most people know about this outsource/mass production and it's lost a bit of it's aura.
I don't really care for it - not a whiskey drinker at all, so I can't say. I'm sure they're still doing solid business, but I have to wonder if they haven't relegated themselves to a more common brand now.
I remember semi-weekly threads about where to find it. Now they've flooded the market and it's hard to tell if it's just too easy to get so not as much talk, or most people know about this outsource/mass production and it's lost a bit of it's aura.
I don't really care for it - not a whiskey drinker at all, so I can't say. I'm sure they're still doing solid business, but I have to wonder if they haven't relegated themselves to a more common brand now.
How could you honestly think they have a large enough distillery in Templeton freaking Iowa to supply the whole nation? Come on man.
It's actually a decent version of Rye whiskey. The only problem I have with it is the price. Templeton is never on sale in my area, but I can usually Bulleit Rye for about $10 cheaper than I can get Templeton. I find them both to be comparative products. So I'll go for the savings.
Saw NPR picked this up too, looks like I am switching brands. I was excited to be drinking IA rye in CA.
Templeton is $45/bottle down here. I've never even considered buying it, especially since Bulleit is 1000 times better.
Wow, no ****?!? Make that $20/bottle cheaper then. Templeton is usually $36 - $38 around Schaumburg. Bulleit starts at about $32, but you can always find it on sale somewhere for around $26.
Templeton is definitely not worth $45. There are so many better whiskeys out there in that price range. I'm wondering if it's a marketing ploy. "Let's charge a lot so we look more premium."
