Templeton Rye

Inspiration Begins at Home When back in Wall Lake, Iowa, for holidays or family gatherings, Scott Bush, would often stop in for visits with his grandparents and his Uncle Gus. Typically these impromptu family gatherings would include a cocktail and an inevitable turn of the conversation from college, politics and farming to old family stories dating back to the Prohibition era. It took little more than these tales to prompt Grandpa or Uncle Gus to rummage around for a bottle of “The Good Stuff” — the secretive rye whiskey made by their father, Frank Schroeder, out at the family farm near Odebolt, Iowa. Drawn to his family’s history with Templeton Rye and intrigued by the quality of the product, Scott saw an opportunity for an enterprise that could combine his education in business, his passion for history and his love for his home state of Iowa.