Titanic Distillers Signature Tour – Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 25 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/836

On the 25th of July 2024, Belfast Whiskey Week brought a morning of uisce beatha and living history to the Titanic Quarter, as guests gathered at the Thompson Dock Pumphouse for the Titanic Distillers Signature Tour. For £25, visitors stepped inside one of Belfast's most storied industrial landmarks and found something entirely new waiting within its walls — a working distillery with deep roots and a confident eye on the future.

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 places in Belfast that carry their history like a second skin, and the Pumphouse at Thompson Dock is one of them. The dock that once held the RMS Titanic during her fitting-out sits quiet now outside, but inside, the air has taken on a new character — warm with the sweet, cereal-edged breath of new make spirit. Titanic Distillers, Belfast's first working whiskey distillery in almost ninety years, sits right at the heart of this extraordinary site, and the Signature Tour gave guests a chance to meet it properly, not as a tourist attraction to be passed through, but as a craft operation with genuine duchas — a real sense of belonging to this place and this city.

Guests on the TT25A tour moved through the distillery at a pace that allowed the story to breathe. From the copper pot stills to the warehouse bond, guides carried the seanchas of the site with evident pride — the history of the dock, the near-century gap in Belfast's distilling tradition, and what it means to be making Irish whiskey here again. The tasting element was handled with the same care: expressions chosen to show range and character, poured generously, and discussed without condescension. Whether you came in as a seasoned malt enthusiast or a curious first-timer, there was room for you here.

What set this particular tour apart from a standard distillery visit was the surroundings themselves. No amount of interior design can replicate standing inside a Victorian hydraulic pumphouse with the Titanic slipways visible beyond the glass. Titanic Distillers understands this and leans into the heritage without allowing it to overshadow the whiskey — a balance that, frankly, not every heritage-site distillery manages. If you're curious how the Signature Tour experience differed across the week, it's worth looking back at the earlier TT19A Signature Tour and the TT19B session, both of which drew equally committed crowds.

Titanic Distillers is a BWW flagship brand, and its presence across the 2024 festival reflected that status — from Distillery Days and pub takeovers at Bittles and Maddens, to cocktail sessions and its prominent role at the Whiskey Expo. The Signature Tours were the quieter, more intimate counterpart to all of that noise: a chance to sit with the spirit and the story without the crowd. For those who wanted something different again, McConnell's Signature Distillery Tour offered a compelling parallel narrative just across the city, exploring another strand of Belfast's returning distilling identity.

The Titanic Distillers Signature Tour on the 25th of July was, in short, a morning well spent. Sláinte to everyone who pulled on a coat and made their way down Queen's Road that Thursday — you saw something worth seeing, and tasted something worth remembering.