lyon distilling company

Husband & wife team who are very enthusiastic and passionate about their business. They offer a free tasting of their products and also offer tours of the distillery. Extremely friendly and welcoming place to visit.

Great start up business. The Lyon Distillery makes light and dark rum and corn whisky. It is a small operation but they are living the American dream and the rum is great.

So the good folks at Lyon, Ben and Jamie, make some amazing rum! The distillery is also a really cool place to visit and they make you feel like a member of the extended family when you visit. Both are proud to be the only rum distillery in Maryland, and their location in historic St. Michael's makes a visit to their establishment one of the many fun things to do there, with good food and several choices walking distance nearby. It's a sleepy town with lots of heart and history!

My husband and I have been to Saint Michaels 3 times in the last 6 months and every time we make sure we stop into Lyon Distilling to stock up on rum. Every visit has been great and the liquor is absolutely fantastic!! Lyon Distilling is definitely a hidden gem off of main street and a must see if you are in town.

The distillery is a basic pot still distillery with 3 small stills making small batches of product. They were distilling rum when we visited. This place is an interesting place to visit to get a basic understanding of the distilling and aging process.

We found this place off the beaten path - it's behind other buildings and signs are a tad bit vague. The owner - Ben, gives a great 10 - 15 minute tour and then there's a free tasting. I really liked the dark rum - so I bought some. The bottles are nice also. As of October, they'd only been in business for 10 months but they seemed to be gettting good crowds and people were buying.

We had the best time at Lyon's. For one, the owner, Jamie and her sister who runs the front desk are very personable! They gave us great information about their rums and we were able to taste them. All delicious...especially the dark rum. The tour was great as well. Definitely stop by!

We day tripped to St. Michaels from DC after reading about the new rum distillery in the Washington Post, and were pleasantly surprised to find the drive fairly short (just under 2 hours) and very relaxing. The distillery is situated in what everyone refers to as the "booze trifecta" (positioned behind a small winery & brewery) in an old flour mill. We were able to try 3 types of rum: white, dark and aged, as well as a 100 proof corn whiskey (moonshine, but better...and legal). We also got to take an informal tour of the production area where everything goes down. The stills were running, and we learned that these are the first (legal) stills to operate in Maryland in over 40 years. They also answered the questions we had about how distilleries work and what "craft" means in light of recent articles about the validity of "craft" spirits. It was great to meet the actual distiller (Ben Lyon, hence Lyon Distilling) and look behind the scenes to know that they really do everything they say they do, from start to finish, or "grain to glass" as the saying goes. Plus, the spirits are really phenomenal. I recommend buying an extra bottle, as we are already planning a trip back because it's our new favorite and you can't buy it anywhere else. Looking forward to their rye whiskey (aging in barrels at the moment) and really anything else they end up producing - the passion, knowledge and excitement from these guys was simply great.

Hipsters and just cool people who appreciate craft beers or small batch rums and liquor rejoice on your weekend getaway. This is your kinda place. We samples several things and bought a few things to take home -- which were gone instantly. Glad we stopped in during our last visit!

The distillery is a bit out of the way and signage is lacking. The distillery is behind the winery in a separate building. It is easy to miss...which is unfortunate because the area is really neat. There is not much to see when you go in (unless you show up during the weekend, in which case they have tours)...but the rum (both the white and dark) is really good!

This is fun and informative. Our first visit was in March, and recently returned last week (7/22). They are growing and have so much to offer. Very fun and informative. A must see.

As a rum enthusiast I was excited to discover that St. Michaels had a distillery, and was excited to stop by during their open hours on Saturday afternoons. We took advantage of the rum tasting (their whisky is not quite ready yet) and LOVED it. The white (cocktail) rum is great, but their dark rum is one of the best I've ever enjoyed (seriously good.) Well worth a stop (and a purchase!) if you are visiting the area!!

We recently took a day trip to St.Michael's and enjoyed sampling the rum from Lyon distillery. We were welcomed in and offered samples right away, the clear rum and the dark rum. I really enjoyed the dark rum. Very friendly staff, we chatted for awhile and he made some recommendations of some other things to do in town. I think it will always be a stop on future visits to St.Michaels!

We stopped in to try the rum and it was quite good. The staff was knowledgeable and very friendly. We left with a bottle and a flask. We didn't do the tour but may next time we are in town. A great stop while in town.

Visited Lyon on Thursday and found a sign on the door stating batch #035 will be ready on Friday 12:30pm. Friday came and my wife and I were waiting outside. Jamie opened the door at about 12:15 or so and asked us if we would like to come in and sample a previous batch. We sampled what turned out to be awesome rum. Jamie then told us Ben was in the back getting ready to start bottling the new batch. She is very passionate about what her and Ben are doing and we very much enjoyed the sampling and education of how the process works. We purchased two bottles of the dark rum from batch #035 which was still warm at the time. How cool is that! Keep up the good work and we will be back for more in the future...