Two Stacks Showcase | Belfast Whiskey Week 2021

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

Filed: 25 Jul 2021
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Format: Online Tasting
Ref: BWW/21/612

On the evening of 25 July 2021, Belfast Whiskey Week's Session 59 brought a spotlight to one of Irish whiskey's more quietly ambitious newcomers — Two Stacks. A Showcase format built around six generous 50ml samples, this was an event that rewarded curiosity and confirmed that the uisce beatha revival on this island is far from slowing down.

About This Event

This tasting includes 6 x 50ml Samples and will take place on the 25th @ 21:00.

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

By the summer of 2021, Belfast Whiskey Week had long since shed any notion that it was a purely local affair. That year's festival reached whiskey lovers across North America, Australia, Sweden, and throughout Europe — and Session 59 was a fine example of how the festival had learned to carry the spirit of the north across time zones and sheughs alike. Sample packs were despatched to localised depots around the world, so that whether you were cracking into your drams in Belfast or Brisbane, the experience of gathering around Two Stacks felt genuinely shared.

Two Stacks is a brand that wears its ambitions on its sleeve — and earns them. Founded with a clear-eyed philosophy around the craft of blending and maturation, the distillery draws on the deep duchas of Irish whiskey tradition while pressing forward into new cask territory. Their name alone carries weight: the two stills that historically defined Irish pot still production, the twin pillars of a craft that stretches back centuries. Attending this showcase felt less like a product launch and more like an introduction to a serious conversation about what Irish whiskey can be.

The six-sample format gave the evening real substance. Rather than a fleeting encounter with one or two expressions, attendees were taken on a considered journey through the Two Stacks range — a seanchas told in glass rather than words. Each pour built on the last, and the format allowed for reflection, comparison, and the kind of unhurried appreciation that whiskey genuinely deserves. At £70 for six 50ml samples plus a guided experience, it represented solid value for the depth of the tasting on offer.

For those who came to BWW 2021 with an appetite for Irish whiskey in its many forms, Session 59 sat comfortably alongside some of the festival's other landmark events. The Session 22 Sexton Deconstruction offered another angle on contemporary Irish blending philosophy, while those drawn deeper into the northern tradition could follow the thread through to the Bushmills Causeway Collection MasterClass — one of the festival's most acclaimed sessions that year. Together, these events sketched a vivid map of where Irish whiskey stands today and where it is confidently heading.

Session 59 was, in the end, an evening of genuine discovery. Two Stacks carried themselves with the quiet confidence of a brand that knows its craft, and the Showcase format gave attendees the room to meet them properly. Sláinte to those who raised a glass that July night — wherever in the world they happened to be sitting. If you're curious to explore more from Belfast Whiskey Week's past and present, take a wander through our Whiskey Map or browse the full BWW collection.