The 19th Hole: Late Night BBQ & Rare Drams | Belfast Whiskey Week 2025

Name: Belfast Whiskey Week 2026
Start: 2026-07-24
End: 2026-08-01
Location: Belfast

Filed: 15 Jul 2025
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 4 min
Ref: BWW/25/300

When the last putt dropped on the 18th green at Royal Portrush and the roar of the crowd at the 153rd Open finally settled into the summer dusk, Belfast Whiskey Week had one more flag to plant. The 19th Hole — held on the evening of Saturday 19th July 2025 at The Harrison — was a specialist tasting that matched the grandeur of the occasion: rare and exclusive Irish whiskeys, bespoke cocktails, and a terrace BBQ built on the finest Northern Irish grass-fed beef. Golf's greatest week in Ulster deserved a worthy afterparty, and this was exactly that.

About This Event

The Open is here and we all want something to do when the last ball drops down on the 18th Green.

With the 153rd Open at Royal Port Rush taking place this weekend, we thought we’d have a little bit of fun with some of our Whiskey Tastings. Keep an eye out for these very special tastings that bring you championship style whiskey experiences.

Belfast Whiskey Week in Collaboration with the Harrison will give you the chance to explore the 19th Hole; a perfect way to round-off the Open Friday through to Sunday. Savour a late night BBQ , with Cocktails and sip on the Finest, Rare & Exclusive Whiskies from Ireland.

You’ll have a bespoke whiskey tasting in the distinct and charming bar and lounge, curated and delivered by a whiskey expert, with cocktails served on arrival, developed specially for the 19th Hole in conjunction with Belfast’s Award-winning Mixologist Duo; Liquid Minds. Your ticket will also include our - on the terrace BBQ, where you’ll get to taste great Northern Irish grass-fed Beef and other superb local produce.

Finer things do exist, but they don’t look, taste and make you feel like this. Let’s celebrate the golf and explore the Whiskey Festival in Belfast’s most Unique Bohemian Bolthole Hotel.

Looking Back

There is something deeply fitting about the Irish concept of the 19th hole — the unwritten rule that the real conversation starts once the clubs are put away. The Harrison, Belfast's most distinctly bohemian bolthole hotel, understood that assignment entirely. Its bar and lounge offered the kind of warm, unhurried atmosphere that invites you to linger: all rich textures, a touch of the theatrical, and staff who carry their knowledge lightly. For three nights running — Friday through Sunday — this was where Open weekend found its most pleasurable punctuation mark.

Attendees arrived to cocktails developed especially for the occasion by Liquid Minds, Belfast's award-winning mixologist duo, whose work has long set the bar for creativity in the city. The welcome drinks weren't mere formality — they were crafted expressions in their own right, designed to bridge the world of fine whiskey and contemporary mixology. It was the kind of opening gesture that signals straight away: this evening has been thought about, properly. From there, a whiskey expert led guests through a curated flight of rare and exclusive Irish drams, chosen to reward both the initiated and the curious. The full event detail hinted at the calibre of what was on offer, and the room didn't disappoint.

Out on the terrace, the BBQ brought the duchas — that deep-rooted sense of belonging to a place and its produce — firmly into the evening. Northern Irish grass-fed beef, cooked properly, served alongside local accompaniments that reminded everyone present just how good this corner of Ireland's larder really is. The combination of smoke, salt air, rare whiskey, and good company felt less like a ticketed event and more like the kind of gathering that gets talked about long after the embers cool. There was a generosity of spirit here — a festival slainte made manifest in food and fire.

In many ways, The 19th Hole captured something essential about what Belfast Whiskey Week does at its best: it takes a moment in the city's cultural calendar — in this case, one of the greatest sporting events ever hosted on Irish soil — and asks what uisce beatha can add to it. The answer, it turns out, is quite a lot. The whiskeys poured were a reminder that Irish distilling is in a period of genuine creative energy, and that the rare and exclusive bottlings now emerging from across the island deserve exactly this kind of focused attention. Explore the full range of producers who shaped this year's programme on the Belfast Whiskey Week Whiskey Map.

For those who were there, The 19th Hole will sit in the memory somewhere between the perfect drive and the celebratory dram — effortless in execution, quietly exceptional in quality. And for those looking for one final chapter in the Belfast Whiskey Week 2025 story, the closing event The Remnants: Thank You Belfast — Good Night carried that same spirit of honest celebration right to the end.