What MGP/Green Giant are doing is just fine. I've no objection to that. The issue is the "craft distillers" passing off MGP's stuff as their own, claiming it's done with their own proprietary yeast blends and family recipes and whatnot.

Look, for example, at http://templetonrye.com/wp-content/themes/Templeton-Rye/docs... which is linked in the article.

> At Templeton Rye, we’re proud to say we use our own proprietary yeast culture propagated in-house and developed exclusively for whiskey production.

That's entirely deceptive. It's as if Whole Foods resold Green Giant products saying "grown with our family's heirloom seeds!"