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MGP Ingredients
US-listed specialty ingredients and spirits company; largest installed vital wheat gluten capacity in the United States via its Ingredient Solutions division. Also a major producer of American whiskey distillates.
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MGP Ingredients Atchison Plant →
USAtchison, Kansas · wet_mill
Largest installed vital wheat gluten capacity in the US; also distills American whiskey. Ingredient Solutions division HQ.
MGP Ingredients Pekin Plant →
USPekin, Illinois · wet_mill
Secondary VWG production facility; also produces industrial starch and alcohol.
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Distillery Products (Bulk Whiskey)
55%Ingredient Solutions (Wheat Protein)
30%Branded Spirits
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Did you know2023
MGP Ingredients (MGPI), the largest US vital wheat gluten producer, is simultaneously one of the largest American whiskey distillate producers — supplying bulk bourbon and rye to dozens of branded spirits companies. MGP's wheat processing operation makes gluten as a co-product of starch/alcohol production, meaning a boom in whiskey demand can divert wheat from gluten production and vice versa.
MGP Ingredients, Inc. ↗Origin2023
MGP Ingredients (formerly Midwest Grain Products of Kansas) was founded in 1941 in Atchison, Kansas — a Missouri River city with a long grain milling history. The original business was wheat processing: separating starch and protein from wheat flour. Wheat gluten (the protein network in wheat dough) was a food ingredient byproduct of wheat starch processing. The whiskey distilling business grew from the grain processing infrastructure: fermentation and distillation of wheat-derived grain alcohol was a natural extension of a company already processing wheat and operating fermentation capacity. MGP became a major bulk whiskey producer during the 1990s-2000s craft spirits boom — supplying white-label whiskey to dozens of startup "craft" brands that sourced aged distillate from MGP while claiming artisanal production. The brand strategy (acquiring Penelope bourbon in 2021) represented MGP transitioning from pure ingredient/distillate supplier to consumer spirits brand owner.
MGP Ingredients, Inc. ↗