Tullamore DEW Core Showcase – Belfast Whiskey Week 2021

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

Filed: 26 Jul 2021
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Format: Online Tasting
Ref: BWW/21/988

There's something quietly confident about Tullamore DEW — a distillery that has never needed to shout to be heard. When Session 79 of Belfast Whiskey Week 2021 brought its core range into focus on the afternoon of the 26th of July, it offered attendees a chance to sit with that confidence, dram by dram, and understand exactly what makes this Offaly-born uisce beatha such a beloved fixture on Irish whiskey's shelf.

About This Event

This tasting includes 6 x 50ml Samples and will take place on the 26th @ 15:30.

For those in the USA, Australia, Sweden, Europe, the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, you will be able to save on delivery costs by having your package to sent to a localised depot for collection. You will be charged a small fee upon collection, but the cost will be much cheaper than having packs delivered to individual addresses. If you would like to avail of this option, please make a note in the Special Instructions box, and we will contact you at a later date to arrange this and refund your delivery charges.

Looking Back

The format was a Showcase — six 50ml samples, each one a window into Tullamore DEW's characteristic house style. For £35, participants received a curated journey through the brand's core expressions, the kind of unhurried, guided tasting that rewards attention and patience in equal measure. It was a session that felt well-suited to both the whiskey novice finding their feet on the Irish whiskey map and the seasoned sipper revisiting a familiar range with fresh eyes.

Tullamore DEW is a brand that carries its duchas — its heritage, its sense of belonging to the land — lightly but meaningfully. Founded in the early nineteenth century in County Offaly and now distilled at a purpose-built home outside the town itself, it represents the triple-distilled, triple-blended philosophy that defines Irish whiskey at its most approachable. The core range showcases that philosophy with clarity: smooth, fruit-forward, and gently spiced, the whiskeys invite rather than demand. There's nothing austere here, nothing designed to intimidate. That accessibility, far from being a weakness, is its own kind of craft.

What made the 2021 Showcase format particularly well-suited to a brand like Tullamore DEW was the space it gave participants to move through the range sequentially, noticing how the distillery's blending signatures shift across expressions without ever abandoning their shared character. Attendees could trace those threads themselves — an exercise in seanchas of a different kind, reading the story of a distillery through the liquid in the glass rather than the words on a page. The event drew participants from across these islands and well beyond, with the localised collection depot option meaning that whiskey lovers in the USA, Australia, Sweden, and mainland Europe could join in without prohibitive delivery costs.

BWW 2021 was a festival that leaned into the breadth of Irish whiskey's landscape, and sessions like this one sat comfortably alongside deeper dives into other celebrated distilleries. Those who had their curiosity sparked by the Irish blending tradition might equally have found themselves drawn to Session 22's Sexton Deconstruction Showcase, which examined a single malt from a very different angle, or to Session 83's Bushmills History MasterClass, where the ancient seanchas of Ireland's oldest licensed distillery was laid out in full. For those who wanted to go further with Bushmills specifically, Session 50's Causeway Collection MasterClass offered some of the most coveted expressions the north coast has produced.

Session 79 was, in the best possible sense, a reliable pleasure — a sláinte raised to a distillery that has earned its place at countless tables across the world. Tullamore DEW doesn't need a festival to validate it, but a festival is all the better for having it. The afternoon light of the 26th of July, six small measures, and a little time to pay attention: that's the thing about good whiskey — it gives back whatever care you bring to it.