Two Stacks Cocktail Masterclass | 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/25/236

On a bright Friday afternoon in the heart of Belfast's Titanic Quarter, the doors of Angel & 2 Bibles swung open for one of the most hands-on sessions of Belfast Whiskey Week 2025 — a cocktail masterclass built entirely around the bold, characterful range from Two Stacks Whiskey. For £25, attendees didn't just taste the uisce beatha; they made something with it. And that, as it turned out, made all the difference.

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 3 Whiskies from the TwoStacks range.

Looking Back

There's a particular kind of duchas to Angel & 2 Bibles — a venue where the walls seem to hold their own seanchas, layered with the kind of nostalgic warmth that makes you feel both welcomed and slightly wonderfully displaced in time. It has been a natural home for Belfast Whiskey Week events over four years now, and by the time this Friday afternoon session rolled around, the relationship between the festival and the venue had the easy confidence of old friends who know exactly what they're doing together. The space was set up just so: cocktail stations dressed and ready, spirits measured out, and the kind of ambient buzz in the room that told you the crowd had come ready to learn.

Two Stacks Whiskey brings a distinctly contemporary Ulster voice to Irish whiskey. The brand is built around accessibility without sacrificing complexity — blends and single malts crafted with a confidence that rewards both the newcomer and the seasoned sipper. For a cocktail masterclass format, that versatility matters enormously, and the three expressions chosen for this session gave the festival's mixologists real scope to play. The class moved through three bespoke cocktails, each designed specifically for Belfast Whiskey Week 2025, with the Two Stacks range as the foundation. Guests weren't just handed a finished glass — they were walked through every step, from the reasoning behind the build to the technique behind the pour.

The mixologists at Angel & 2 Bibles are quietly exceptional. They carry their expertise lightly, which is exactly the right register for this kind of event. The step-by-step guidance never felt like a lecture; it felt more like being let in on a secret. Each of the three cocktails offered a different lens on the Two Stacks character — one leaning into the whiskey's sweetness, another drawing out its weight with bitter and herbal counterpoints, and a third that, by accounts from the room, surprised everyone present in the best possible way. By the final glass, there was the kind of easy sláinte-raising that happens when a room of strangers has shared something genuinely enjoyable together.

This event sat within a rich programme of cocktail experiences across the festival week. Those who caught the Titanic Whiskey cocktail session earlier in the week will have noticed the contrast in approach — where Titanic leaned into heritage and provenance, Two Stacks pushed forward with something a little more playful and modern. And for those interested in the broader landscape of what our local distilleries are doing beyond the still, the Cocktails & Perception Masterclass offered a genuinely fascinating companion experience, exploring how colour and context shape what we taste. The Hinch Distillery cocktail session rounded out the week with its own distinct character — taken together, these events made a compelling argument that Irish whiskey belongs in the cocktail glass every bit as much as it does in the tumbler.

At £25 for three handcrafted cocktails, guided instruction, and an afternoon inside one of Belfast's most characterful venues, this session offered generous value — but more than that, it offered genuine connection. To the craft of the drink, to the Two Stacks range, and to the tír we make it in. That's Belfast Whiskey Week at its best: not just celebrating uisce beatha, but bringing people into the story of it.