Des Moines Register: Templeton Rye’s new $35 million Iowa distillery signals a homecoming for the company, which traces its roots to Carroll County’s bootleg era, when making rye whiskey in the tiny farming community of Templeton was an open secret. “This completes us,” co-founder Keith Kerkhoff said Monday during a tour of the facility. “We’re all home now.” For years, Templeton Rye purchased its whiskey from an Indiana distillery and bottled it in Templeton.