Titanic Whiskey Cocktail Making at Belfast Whiskey Week 2025

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

Filed: 15 Jul 2025
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 4 min
Ref: BWW/25/548

There are few better ways to spend a July afternoon in Belfast than with a glass in hand and a story worth telling — and that's exactly what the cocktail masterclass at Angel & 2 Bibles delivered during Belfast Whiskey Week 2025. Partnering with Titanic Distillers, Ireland's most dramatically located distillery, the session turned a 3pm Friday slot into something genuinely memorable. Two whiskies and a vodka from the Titanic range, three bespoke cocktails, and one room full of people discovering that making something beautiful from good spirits is easier — and more satisfying — than they'd imagined.

About This Event

Everyday during the Festival, we have partnered with one of Belfast’s finest Cocktail lounges: Angel & 2 Bibles. We have built up a great relationship with this quirky and nostalgic venue of the past 4 years, and hosted multiple parties, tastings, fine-dining experiences, as well as the best cocktail experiences in Belfast.

This year we are challenging the staff, the venue, and you to deliver a unique cocktail master class everyday during the festival.

Each session will have three unique drinks, using Whiskies and possibly some other spirits from our local distilleries such as Poitín or Gin or Vodka or even Rum.

You’ll get to make the cocktails, after our well versed and experienced mixologists walk you through the step by step process of making bespoke Cocktails designed for the festival.

This Session will use 2 Whiskies and 1 Vodka from the Titanic Distillers range.

Looking Back

Angel & 2 Bibles has long been one of Belfast's most characterful drinking dens — a place that wears its nostalgia lightly, with enough quirk in its bones to feel like it belongs to the city rather than to any particular era. It was the ideal stage for an event like this. Belfast Whiskey Week has called it home for four years now, hosting everything from late-night parties to fine-dining evenings within its walls, and the relationship shows. The staff know the rhythms of a festival crowd, and they pitched this masterclass at exactly the right level — knowledgeable without being preachy, relaxed without being loose.

The session was structured around three cocktails built from the Titanic Distillers portfolio: two whiskies and a vodka, each chosen to show off a different facet of what the distillery is producing down on Queen's Road. Titanic Distillers sits at Thompson Dock in the Titanic Quarter — Belfast's first working whiskey distillery in almost ninety years — and everything about its output carries a sense of place. The spirits aren't just made in Belfast; they feel like Belfast: forthright, well-made, and not inclined to apologise for themselves. The cocktails built around them carried that same confidence.

The mixologists who led each session were the kind of people who make this sort of thing look effortless, which is both impressive and slightly humbling when you're standing there with a jigger in your hand. They walked attendees through the step-by-step process with real patience — explaining not just the how but the why, the balance between sweetness and bitterness, the way a good whiskey base changes the entire architecture of a drink. By the end, participants weren't just holding something they'd made; they understood what they'd made, which is a different thing entirely.

This session was one of seven daily masterclasses running across the festival week, each using a different selection of spirits drawn from Belfast's local distilleries — poitín, gin, rum, and vodka all found their way into the mix alongside whiskey at various points. That breadth is part of what makes the BWW cocktail programme so valuable: it treats the local spirits scene as the ecosystem it is, rather than siloing whiskey away from the rest. For those who wanted to go deeper into the Titanic Distillers story, Taste of the Shipyard and the Titanic Distillers Signature Tour offered different angles on the same remarkable distillery — each one worth your time.

At £25 a head for a hands-on masterclass with three original cocktails and the guidance of some of the best bar professionals in the city, this was the kind of value that Belfast Whiskey Week does quietly and consistently well. Sláinte to everyone who joined us at Angel & 2 Bibles — and to the uisce beatha that made it all worth shaking.