Titanic Distillers Signature Tour – Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 23 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/636

There are few places in Belfast where history and the uisce beatha come together quite so powerfully as the Pumphouse at Thompson Dock. On 23rd July 2024, Belfast Whiskey Week's Signature Tour of Titanic Distillers brought festival-goers into one of the city's most storied industrial spaces — not as a museum piece, but as a living, working distillery making its mark on Irish whiskey once again.

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

Titanic Distillers sits where the dock workers once sweated and the great ships took shape — and that sense of duchas, of belonging to a place and its story, runs through everything the distillery does. Opened in 2023, it holds the remarkable distinction of being Belfast's first working whiskey distillery in almost ninety years, and the Signature Tour gave BWW2024 visitors a genuine feel for what that means. This wasn't a polished brand experience lifted wholesale from somewhere else. It was rooted in the Titanic Quarter's particular tír — the cranes on the skyline, the water at the dock's edge, the weight of what was built here.

The tour itself moved at a generous pace, with guides who clearly relished the seanchas — the storytelling — as much as the whiskey knowledge. Guests were walked through the production process from grain to glass, learning how Titanic Distillers is building its character from the ground up in a city that once exported its craft to the world. The Pumphouse as a venue is extraordinary: all Victorian ironwork and brick, with the stills sitting within it like something between industry and alchemy. For many on the tour, just being inside the building was worth the price of admission.

At £25, the Signature Tour represented one of the more accessible entry points into the Titanic Distillers experience during the festival — and it ran across multiple slots throughout the week, reflecting the demand the distillery consistently attracts. Those who wanted to go deeper had options: the Titanic Distillers Distillery Evening offered a more immersive after-hours atmosphere, while the Taste of the Shipyard leaned into food and flavour pairing with the whiskey at its heart. The Signature Tour, by contrast, was the ideal starting point — thorough, unpretentious, and genuinely illuminating.

The tasting element rounded things off with the confidence of a distillery that knows what it's doing. Guests worked through the current expressions, with notes on provenance, maturation, and the thinking behind each dram. There was no rush, no hard sell — just honest engagement with the whiskey and the place it comes from. Slàinte was raised more than once. It felt earned.

Titanic Distillers is a flagship presence throughout Belfast Whiskey Week, and events like this Signature Tour show exactly why. The distillery doesn't just produce excellent Irish whiskey — it gives Belfast something to be proud of again in a tradition the city once helped shape. If you haven't made the trip to Queens Road yet, there's no good reason to wait.