Titanic Distillers Signature Tour – Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 20 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/844

On the 20th of July 2024, Belfast Whiskey Week brought guests through the doors of one of the city's most storied addresses — the Thompson Dock Pumphouse in the Titanic Quarter — for the Titanic Distillers Signature Tour. It was the kind of event that felt inevitable in the best possible way: a working distillery, a building that carries the weight of Belfast's industrial duchas, and a dram waiting at the end of it all. For £25, it was one of the festival's most grounded and genuine offerings.

About This Event

Book in for a Signature Tour in one of Belfast's Historic buildings. Take time to Visit Titanic Distillers at the Pumphouse in the Titanic Quarter; minutes from the City Centre. Having opened in 2023, Titanic has welcomed thousands of guests to experience a fantastic distillery and truly wonderful visitor and tourist attraction.

Looking Back

There is something quietly remarkable about standing in the Pumphouse and being told that whiskey is being made here again. Titanic Distillers is Belfast's first working whiskey distillery in almost ninety years, and the weight of that fact settles on you differently when you're actually on site — surrounded by the brick and iron of a building that watched ships leave for New York, Southampton, and beyond. The seanchas of this place runs deep, and the distillery wears it with confidence rather than sentiment.

The Signature Tour took guests through the full story — from the revival of whiskey-making in the city to the craft and patience that goes into producing uisce beatha of genuine quality. Guides were knowledgeable and unhurried, giving space for questions and for the building itself to do some of the talking. The tasting that rounded off the tour was purposeful rather than perfunctory: a chance to understand what Titanic is making and why the choices behind each expression matter.

As a flagship brand of Belfast Whiskey Week, Titanic Distillers had a significant presence across the 2024 festival — from cocktail-making sessions and pub takeovers to the Labyrinth Charity Ball and the Whiskey Expo. The Signature Tour sat at the heart of their programme, running across multiple dates to meet demand. If you attended the TT19A Signature Tour on the 19th as well, you'll know that each session carried its own rhythm depending on the group — a testament to guides who were engaged rather than on autopilot.

For those who wanted to go further into the distillery experience, the Taste of the Shipyard event from BWW 2023 offers a sense of how Titanic has been building its visitor programme year on year — deepening the offer and refining what a distillery day out in Belfast can actually mean. The trajectory has been consistent: this is a brand that takes hospitality seriously, and it shows.

The Titanic Quarter is only minutes from Belfast city centre, but arriving at the Pumphouse feels like a genuine departure from the everyday. That contrast — the tír of the old dock, the smell of new spirit, the Lough in the background — is what distillery visits should feel like. Sláinte to everyone who made it along on the 20th of July. You picked well.