Titanic Distillers Signature Tour – Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 26 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/284

There are few places in Belfast where history sits quite so heavily in the stones beneath your feet, and on the 26th of July 2024, guests who joined the Titanic Distillers Signature Tour as part of Belfast Whiskey Week got to feel every ounce of it. Tucked into the Pumphouse at Thompson Dock in the Titanic Quarter, this was uisce beatha served with a side of genuine duchas — a sense of place and belonging that only a distillery rooted so deeply in its own tír can offer. For £25, it was one of the festival's most tangible reminders that Belfast's whiskey story is very much being written 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 in a building that has watched more history pass than most of us can readily imagine. The Thompson Dock Pumphouse, a Grade B+ listed structure on Queens Road, once kept the great ships of the Harland & Wolff yard in dry dock — and now, in its reimagined life, it keeps the flame of Belfast distilling alive. Having opened in 2023 as Belfast's first working whiskey distillery in almost 90 years, the welcome that awaited guests on the July tour was one befitting both a proud homecoming and a confident new chapter in the city's seanchas.

The Signature Tour format gave attendees an unhurried, intimate window into how the distillery operates — from the gleaming copper stills through to the maturing spirit that will one day carry the Titanic name on a fully aged Irish whiskey. Knowledgeable guides walked the group through the production process with the kind of warmth and ease that made even the most technically curious questions feel welcome. The Pumphouse setting did much of the heavy lifting, of course — the architecture alone tells a story — but it was the genuine passion of the people behind the brand that made this more than a tourist tick-box. Sláinte to that.

Part of what makes the Titanic Distillers experience so well-suited to Belfast Whiskey Week is precisely this layering of old and new. The distillery isn't trading on nostalgia alone; it is actively building something. Those who had joined earlier festival tours — like the TT19A Signature Tour earlier in the week — often spoke of returning, drawn back by a sense that there was always more to discover. For visitors newer to the distillery's story, the tour offered a grounding in why this place matters, both to the city and to Irish whiskey as a broader tradition.

Titanic Distillers is a BWW flagship brand in the truest sense, present throughout the festival's programme across distillery days, cocktail sessions, pub takeovers at Bittles and Maddens, and of course the Whiskey Expo floor. But there's something particular about seeing the spirit made in context — standing in the dock where ships were built, learning how grain becomes whiskey in a building that has survived everything Belfast has thrown at it. If the Taste of the Shipyard evening from a previous festival year gave a sense of the brand's ambition, then the 2024 Signature Tours showed that ambition settling into quiet confidence.

For anyone who hasn't yet made the short journey from the city centre to the Titanic Quarter to visit in person, the Titanic Distillers collection is a fine place to start the conversation. But the tour itself — the smell of the still house, the weight of the building's past, the first proper taste of a dram in those surroundings — that's something worth booking ahead for next time Belfast Whiskey Week comes around.