Two Stacks x Charlie's Pizza Whiskey Pairing | 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: 3 min
Ref: BWW/25/124

On a warm Monday afternoon in July, the Ormeau Road became the unlikely but entirely convincing home of one of Belfast Whiskey Week 2025's most talked-about experiences. Two Stacks Whiskey and Charlie's Pizza joined forces for an elevated pairing session that asked a simple but delicious question: what happens when cask-strength Irish whiskey meets a seriously good slice? The answer, as those lucky enough to secure a ticket discovered, was something well worth raising a glass to.

About This Event

Join Two Stacks Whiskey and Charlie's Pizza Belfast for an elevated whiskey and pizza pairing experience like no other!

Taking place on Monday 21st July 2025 from 3-6pm at Charlie's Pizza - Ormeau Road, this exclusive Belfast Whiskey Week event promises to delight your palate with expertly curated pairings.

You'll savour a carefully designed tasting journey, featuring premium Two Stacks expressions — from cask strength blends to innovative finishes — matched perfectly with Charlie's fresh, flavour-packed pizza slices. Each pairing is crafted to balance and enhance the other, offering an unforgettable, elevated dining and sipping experience – with a bonus 'creamy' desert.

Whether you're a whiskey lover, a pizza enthusiast, or simply curious to discover something new, this afternoon promises to be a highlight of Belfast Whiskey Week.

Spaces are limited — book your ticket today and raise a glass to Belfast's finest!

*Additional soft drinks, beers and wines available to purchase at venue

* Belfast Whiskey Week 2025 Festival – Dram in a Can 100ml – available to purchase at event!

Looking Back

From three o'clock, Charlie's filled with the kind of anticipatory hum that only comes when people suspect they're about to eat and drink very well. The venue — a Belfast favourite with a well-earned reputation for its whiskey collection and its cocktails — wore the afternoon comfortably, its bar shelves doing quiet duty as a backdrop while the real action unfolded at the tables. This was a proper sit-down, slow-down experience: the sort the Irish might call a duchas moment, rooted in place and pleasure.

Two Stacks is a brand that wears its ambition openly. Known for expressions that push at the edges of what Irish whiskey can be — cask-strength blends, innovative cask finishes, bold and layered flavour profiles — they brought several of their premium bottlings to the table, quite literally. Each pour was matched with one of Charlie's fresh, flavour-packed pizza slices in pairings that had clearly been thought through rather than thrown together. Sweetness met char; spice found its anchor in dough; a long, oaky finish was coaxed into new life beside something rich and savoury. It was the kind of pairing logic that makes you wonder why it took this long for someone to try it.

The tasting journey moved at a pace that allowed for genuine conversation — between guests, between guests and the Two Stacks team, and between palate and glass. There was no rush. Soft drinks, beers and wines were available for those who needed a palate reset, and the festival's own Dram in a Can 100ml expression was on hand for purchase, a neat souvenir of the week. If you attended other food and drink crossover events during the festival — like the Belfast Boiler Makers pairing session or the creative cocktail work happening at Titanic Whiskey x Angel & 2 Bibles — you'd have recognised the same underlying spirit: whiskey as something to live with, not merely to admire.

The afternoon closed, as promised, with a bonus 'creamy' dessert — details of which we'll leave to those who were there, though reports suggest it landed well. The uisce beatha had done its work by then, loosening the afternoon into something genuinely convivial. Belfast Whiskey Week has always believed that the best way to understand a whiskey is in context — with people, with food, with a place that means something. Charlie's Pizza on the Ormeau Road, on a July afternoon in 2025, made that case rather beautifully.

For those who missed it and are looking to explore the wider world of whiskey pairing and cocktail craft that ran through BWW2025, the Belfast Whiskey Map remains a fine place to start your own journey across the city's distilleries, bars and bottle shops. Sláinte mhaith.