Hy-Vee Wine & Spirits

Before I left on my annual Iowa vacation, my boss asked me to pick up another bottle of Templeton Rye Whiskey for her friend. Last year’s search was relatively easy and this HyVee Liquor Store had 2 bottles for immediate purchase.
This year has been an entirely different story and so much so that their booth at the State Fair had cards titled — Where is the Templeton Rye? I darn near stopped at every liquor store between Ames and Spirit Lake and the best I could do was a couple of wait lists. One store told me that their wait list was 20 people long and that they were on an allotment of 6 bottles every 6 weeks. However, the new batch comes out of the charred oak barrels in December, so I expect the «Call of the Rye» to come soon enough.
So although I came up empty handed at this HyVee Liquors this year, there is still plenty of other beer, wine, and spirits selection to choose from. In fact, only Cyclone Liquors on the other side of town compares. Nice people too.