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Straight from the still
Greetings from Templeton!
Our beautiful summer is over in Templeton and the harvest is in full swing. The distillery is busy as usual, and we've had lots of visitors during our last few open tour days.
Many of you have been asking about our increased allocation during the holidays so I wanted to take a minute to explain this to you. As you may know, our product spends at least four years aging in the barrel. We can't go back in time and make more so we "have what we have" until some of our scaled-up production becomes available late next year. We've chosen to allocate the product we have until then, and we send product to Iowa and Illinois
at the beginning of every month. In Iowa, we have basically sent 400 cases per month to the State from Jan-Sep of 2009. We backloaded our allocation around the holidays and sent 1,200 cases to the State for October last week, and we're following that up with another 1,200 cases in November and 600 cases in December. The good news is that it should be a little bit easier to find a bottle of The Good Stuff for the next few months. We will return to a lower allocation in January but are quickly
approaching November of 2010, the date when our scaled-up production starts to come on line. We sincerely appreciate your patience as we move toward that milestone date.
We were pleased to welcome the Iowa Liquor Commission to Templeton on Sept 9th and our friends from Wirtz Beverage on Sept 11th. (See the pictures and video below.) Please come visit us sometime. Our upcoming tour dates can be found here.
Finally, I wanted to recognize and congratulate two of our peers and fellow pioneers in the craft distillery movement, North Shore Distillery in Chicago and High West Distillery in Park City, Utah. North Shore recently celebrated their 5th anniversary and High West has refurbished the old Beggs & Buckley Livery in Park City to create the world's only ski-in distillery. I met Sonja and Derek from North Shore and David
from High West way back at the 1st American Distilling Institute conference in Kentucky and I know we have all enjoyed watching one another progress over the years. Great job friends, and keep up the good work.
All the best from your friends at Templeton Rye,
Scott Bush, President
P.S.: The Templeton Rye family has welcomed a new addition since our last newsletter. Jessica and I are pleased to introduce our daughter, Mary Helen Bush, born on Aug 18th.
Templeton Rye archive project
We started the Templeton Rye archive project as a way to capture all of the great TR stories from the past and preserve them forever. Over the past year we've been added dozens of videos to the project on our YouTube channel, which you can view here. If you have any Templeton Rye stories, pictures or artifacts of your own, please reach out to us - we'd love to share them with all the other TR fans out there!
Here's Centenarian Art Rix talking about his trip to Omaha during the prohibition era and how he and his wife ended up at a speakeasy that served Templeton Rye:
Iowa Liquor Commission visits Templeton
On Sept 9th we welcomed the Iowa Liquor Commission to the distillery for the second of four Native Distillery Forums. It was a great meeting and we appreciate everyone's time and interest in developing the craft distilling industry in Iowa.
Our primary goal is to have the ability to sell product at the distillery while continuing to operate in the three-tiered distribution system in Iowa. This will create a wonderful new industry in our state and will continue to develop Iowa as the leading agritourism state in the US.
Thank you all for the visit and we look forward to seeing you at Cedar Ridge on Oct 22nd.
Iowa Liquor Commissioner Rick Hunsaker with TR bottlers Virginia Knobbe and Anna Mae Irlmeier.
Iowa Liquor Commissioners Mary Hunter and Jim Clayton along with TR bottler Myra Wittrock.
Liquor Commission meeting with Templeton Rye barrels as the backdrop.
TR Founder Scott Bush explains the intricacies of the distilling process to Iowa Liquor Administrator Lynn Walding.
Templeton Rye welcomes Wirtz Beverage
We recently hosted some of our friends from Wirtz Beverage in Templeton. They were treated to a uniquely Iowa experience complete with golf carts, apple pie and bowling. You can see some highlights of the visit here:
Bartender Testimonial: The Beer Bistro
Bob McDermott, owner of The Beer Bistro in the heart of the West Loop in Chicago talks about why he likes Templeton Rye and how he serves at his bar:
Templeton Rye stories: Iowans helping Iowans
Jeremy Freerks of Iowa City sent us this great story and we wanted to share it with the rest of you:
Hey guys, hope business is good. I got a little Templeton Story for you. Last year when the tornadoes hit Parkesburg, Iowa, a number of my family's homes were totally destroyed. My family got together and we helped all our relatives dig out from this mess so they could rebuild again. At the family reunion this year, one of my cousins (who lost his brand new house) showed up with a couple of cases of Templeton Rye for those who gave up their weekend to pitch in. I told my
cousin that his thanks were all I needed and not to mention again. Glad he didn't listen. This is all about Iowans helping Iowans and enjoying Iowa's "good stuff."
Long sleeve Templeton Rye label tees available at the online store
Winter is on the way, so it's time to stock up on warmer clothes. Click here to check out our long sleeve label tees and get yours today.
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