Pearse Lyons Distillery to take whiskey buffs back to school

As the whiskey tourism competition heats up around Dublin’s Liberties, the Pearse Lyons Distillery is plotting a new whiskey and gin school venture.

The Dublin 8 distillery and visitor centre was opened by Deirdre Lyons and her late Irish-born husband, the entrepreneur Dr Pearse Lyons. The duo founded the multibillion-dollar animal nutrition firm Alltech in 1980.

Ahead of their distillery’s launch in 2017, the Lyons family invested heavily in the conversion of the ...