Watch: Belfast Whiskey Week pub crawl 2025

"Belfast Whiskey Day out / Pub Crawl, Belfast, Northern Ireland — Belfast Whiskey Week / Paul."

The video visits some of Belfast Whiskey Week's anchor venues, starting at the Morning Star — a heritage pub off High Street with one of the most respected whiskey selections in Belfast. Throughout the festival, the Morning Star hosts curated tastings, including the Morning Star X BWW Whiskey Lunch and a number of partner brand events.

What makes a video like this useful for prospective Belfast Whiskey Week visitors is that it captures the actual texture of festival week — what it looks like to move between venues, what the bars feel like inside, what the city is doing while the festival is happening. Programme listings and event descriptions can only convey so much. A walking video tour shows people something different: the atmosphere.

Belfast's whiskey pub culture is one of the festival's quiet superpowers. The city has more pubs with serious whiskey credentials per square mile than almost anywhere comparable — the Duke of York, the Friend at Hand, the Morning Star, Maddens, the Deer's Head, the John Hewitt, the Garrick, Bittles. Each one has its own character, its own collection, its own staff who know what they're talking about. The festival doesn't have to manufacture an atmosphere; it just opens the city up and lets the pubs do what they already do well.

For someone planning their first Belfast Whiskey Week, watching footage from a real pub crawl during the festival is one of the best ways to understand what they're getting into. It's also a useful reminder that the festival is fundamentally about the city — about Belfast's bars, Belfast's heritage, and Belfast's whiskey culture as it exists year-round, intensified into a single week each summer.

Watch the full video: Belfast Whiskey Day out / Pub Crawl, Belfast, Northern Ireland