Pearse Lyons Whiskey Distillery

This guide follows Dr. Pearse Lyons, a Dublin-born biochemist who made his fortune in Kentucky on the science of yeast, as he buys a derelict eight-hundred-year-old church in the Liberties in 2013 to house a whiskey brand carrying his own name. You'll hear about the years spent rebuilding its roof from the original Welsh quarry, the glass spire nicknamed the Liberties Lantern, and the two Kentucky copper stills now working inside it. Along the way the guide turns to what Lyons only learned after buying the building, about the churchyard beneath it and his own family's connection to this street.