Titanic Distillers Signature Tour – Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 22 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/188

On the 22nd of July 2024, Belfast Whiskey Week welcomed guests through the doors of one of the city's most storied addresses — the Pumphouse at Thompson Dock, home to Titanic Distillers. The Signature Tour (TT22A) offered something that only Belfast, with its layered industrial duchas, can truly provide: world-class uisce beatha in a setting that carries the weight and wonder of history in every stone.

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 are distillery tours, and then there are experiences that root you to a place. The TT22A Signature Tour sat firmly in the latter category. Guests arrived at Queens Road in the Titanic Quarter to find the Pumphouse doing what it has always done — quietly commanding attention. Opened as a working distillery in 2023, Titanic Distillers is Belfast's first whiskey-making operation in almost ninety years, and that fact alone gave the afternoon a particular charge. You weren't simply visiting a visitor attraction; you were witnessing the revival of a craft that had gone quiet in this city for nearly a century.

The tour itself moved at a generous pace, allowing guests proper time to take in the distillery's workings — the copper, the grain, the slow alchemy of the still — before guides turned conversation toward the wider seanchas of Belfast's whiskey tradition. The Titanic Quarter lends an extraordinary backdrop; beyond the windows, the dry dock where the great ship was fitted out sits in silence, and it's hard not to feel the particular tír of this corner of Belfast — a place built on craft, ambition, and the hands of working people. Titanic Distillers wears that inheritance with care rather than spectacle.

At £25 per head, the Signature Tour represented genuine value for a ninety-minute immersion into both the production process and the brand's story. Tasting notes were delivered with the kind of confident warmth that invites questions rather than closing them down — no small achievement when you're speaking to a mixed room of whiskey enthusiasts and curious first-timers alike. The expressions poured carried real character: approachable enough to delight a newcomer, considered enough to hold the attention of someone who spends their weekends nosing single casks. If you're exploring Belfast's growing whiskey landscape, the Belfast Whiskey Map is a fine place to plot your bearings before or after a visit like this.

It's worth noting that Titanic Distillers is a cornerstone of Belfast Whiskey Week in the broadest sense — running multiple Signature Tour slots across the festival, hosting the Labyrinth Charity Ball, and appearing prominently at the Whiskey Expo. The TT22A slot complemented other Titanic events across the week, including the atmospheric Distillery Evening and the ever-popular Taste of the Shipyard, building a programme that rewarded those who returned more than once. For those who wanted to compare Belfast's distilling renaissance across multiple sites, pairing this tour with a McConnell's Signature Distillery Tour offered a compelling double-bill of the city's uisce beatha revival.

Sláinte to everyone who joined us at the Pumphouse on the 22nd. The Titanic Quarter has no shortage of things to see and do, but standing inside a working still house with a dram in hand, looking out over Thompson Dock, is a particular kind of Belfast afternoon — one that doesn't ask to be rushed, and doesn't need to be. We hope it was everything the city's whiskey story deserves.