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The previous price was NZ$12 and current price is NZ$10 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 8m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Step into the gritty heart of Lexington’s industrial past along Manchester Street. This immersive walking tour explores how rail spurs, limestone waters, and nineteenth-century whisky factories survived catastrophic fires, ruin, and decades of abandonment to emerge as an energetic cultural corridor. Walk alongside urban planner Tom and local friend Amelia as they uncover hidden creeks, worker break rooms, freight depots, and working copper stills. It is a sensory journey through fermentation, architecture, and the raw grit of genuine adaptive reuse.

    • A 3.2 km self-guided tour with 8 stops over 128 min
    • Ideal for travellers interested in Urbanism, Infrastructure & Innovation and Foodways & Culinary Identity
    • Immersively told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Matching audio content, AI guide and navigation through the app

Activity location

  • Wise Bird Cider
    • 1170 Manchester St, Suite 140
    • 40508-6701, Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Wise Bird Cider Co.
    • 1170 Manchester Street
    • 40508, Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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Podcast Tour: Mash to Mosaic - Lexington's Distillery District in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 8 minutes2h 8m
    2h 8m
  • Opening hours: Mon 12:00 am-11:30 pm
  • English
Price details
NZ$11.87
NZ$9.50 x 1 AdultNZ$9.50
Total
The previous price was NZ$11.87 and current price is NZ$9.50
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Verified facts woven into an engaging storey
  • Inclusions
    Interactive in-app guide for questions about the storey and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Precise navigation between the stops
  • Inclusions
    Immersive podcast-style audio featuring experts and locals

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Wise Bird Cider

  • 10m
Repurposed historic Pepper barrel warehouse connecting urban industrial reuse with regional Appalachian heritage apple orchards.

941 Manchester St

  • 10m
A modern boutique hotel honouring the industrial vernacular of 19th-century bourbon rickhouses at the eastern gateway of the district.

Manchester Street & Thompson Road

  • 10m
The historic subterranean limestone creek that powered early industry, now partially daylighted as a greenway trail.

1178 Manchester St

  • 10m
A preserved 1920s distillery workers’ washroom and break shack transformed into an intimate creekside bar.

The Burl

  • 10m
A 1920s rail freight dock and Texaco distribution hub repurposed into an iconic independent roots and live music venue.

Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream (Manchester)

  • 10m
Artisanal ice cream shop housed in the Pepper administrative building, highlighting immigrant entrepreneurship and local flavours.

Ethereal Brewing

  • 10m
Craft brewery in the Pepper complex’s historic fermentation hall, continuing the biological tradition of grain mashing and yeast cultivation. The tour also explores the nearby James E. Pepper Distillery and iconic 105-foot brick smokestack, the monumental anchor of the district.

Location

Activity location

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    Wise Bird Cider
    • 1170 Manchester St, Suite 140
    • 40508-6701, Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Wise Bird Cider Co.
    • 1170 Manchester Street
    • 40508, Lexington, Kentucky, United States

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