Watch: Belfast Whiskey Week 2022 launch at the Angel & Two Bibles

The Angel & Two Bibles, the upstairs bar above the Deer's Head, has hosted multiple Belfast Whiskey Week events across the years — including launches, club nights and tastings. By 2022, the venue had become one of the festival's most loyal partners, and the choice to host the launch event there reflected the festival's preference for keeping its key moments inside the venues that had supported it from the early days.

The 2022 launch came at an important moment in the festival's evolution. After two years of online-only festivals during the pandemic — 2020 and 2021 — the 2022 edition marked Belfast Whiskey Week's return to its in-person physical form. The launch event at the Angel & Two Bibles was effectively the moment the festival came back into the city.

The 2022 launch also featured one of the festival's signature pairings — Chocolate Manor's milk and dark chocolates with Copeland whiskey, alongside Method and Madness's Mulberry Cask Irish Whiskey. This kind of cross-collaboration between local artisan producers and partner distilleries is one of the festival's most distinctive programming features.

Marty McAuley and Justin Macartney of Irish Whiskey Review recorded a podcast episode from the launch, which captures the conversations and energy of the night in audio form — a useful complement to the video.

For followers of Belfast Whiskey Week's history, the 2022 launch footage is one of the clearest visual records of the festival's transition back into its physical form after the pandemic. It's also a snapshot of one of the venues that has shaped the festival's identity from its earliest years.

Watch the full video: Belfast Whiskey Week Launch — Angel & Two Bibles above the Deer's Head