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MGP Ingredients, Inc. is an American distilled spirits and food ingredients producer with headquarters in Atchison, Kansas.
MGP Ingredients' distilled spirits are sold under about 50 different brand names by various bottling company, in addition to products sold under their own labels, including Till Vodka, George Remus Bourbon, and Rossville Union Straight Rye Whiskey.
In April 2021, MGP Ingredients completed its acquisition of Luxco, adding that company's portfolio of branded spirits.
On April 19, 2006, Pernod Ricard announced plans to close the distillery, but instead sold it in 2007 to CL Financial, a holding company based in Trinidad and Tobago, which renamed it "Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana" (LDI). CL Financial later collapsed and required government intervention, although the facility continued to operate through the crisis.
In October 2011, MGP Ingredients announced that it had reached an agreement with CL Financial to purchase the distillery. In 2012 Diageo was the distillery's biggest customer. The Ross & Squibb name was restored to the distillery in 2021.
In April 2013, MGP announced the introduction of six additional mash bills for rye, malt, wheat and bourbon whiskey to expand the range of product offerings for the Indiana facility.
Altogether, MGP is the source of beverage spirits sold under about 50 different brand names, although these are often sold misleadingly by their bottlers as distinctive products with minimal disclosure of the actual source of the spirits. Some industry experts have commented negatively about the practice, such as the whiskey writer Charles Cowdery who has decried such bottlers as "Potemkin village distilleries". As one example, in a class action settlement announced in 2015 about the marketing of the Templeton Rye brand which was actually produced using MGP spirits, Templeton was required to add the words "distilled in Indiana" to its label and remove claims of using a "Prohibition Era Recipe" and "small batch" production. The settlement also offered refunds to customers who had bought Templeton Rye since 2006.
Some brands modify the facility's products somewhat before bottling and selling them. George Dickel Rye, introduced in 2012, is mashing, distilled and aged in Indiana at MGP, and then trucked to the Diageo bottling plant in Plainfield, Illinois, for filtering and bottling. Angel's Envy finishes its spirits in old port wine casks before bottling.
MGP also produces plant-based protein. In 2021, MGP was ranked 31st on FoodTalks's Global Top Plant Protein Companies list.
Bourbon whiskey: Daviess County, Ezra Brooks, George Remus, Old Ezra 101, Penelope, Rebel (wheated), Yellowstone
Rye whiskey: Rossville Union, Minor Case
Gin: Bowling & Burch, Green Hat
Irish whiskey: The Quiet Man
Irish cream: Saint Brendan
Tequila: Dos Primos, El Mayor, Exotico
Vodka: Pearl
Brands
MGP Ingredients beverage brands include:
External links
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