Whiskey Nomads x Stereo Tasting | Belfast Whiskey Week 2024

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

Filed: 20 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/148

On a warm July evening in 2024, the Whiskey Nomads — Belfast's beloved monthly tasting collective — crossed the sheugh into East Belfast and took up residence at Stereo, one of the Eastside's most talked-about dining destinations. The result was one of Belfast Whiskey Week's most eagerly anticipated sessions: an intimate evening of single cask uisce beatha paired with inventive small plates, hosted by the irrepressible Peder and Annie.

About This Event

Belfast-based Whiskey Nomads are taking their tastings to Stereo in East Belfast for a bespoke evening of fine dining small plates and Single Cask Whisky. The Eastside eatery has gained high levels of praise for their food and will be an excellent fit for Peder and Annie as they show off some exciting drams. The Whiskey Nomads have gained significant prominence as a respected and well-attended monthly tasting event in the city. Their no-nonsense approach and great selection of whiskies paired with Stereo’s unique menu make this event a no-brainer!

Looking Back

There are events at Belfast Whiskey Week that fill a room through reputation alone, and the Whiskey Nomads have earned that standing the hard way — dram by dram, month by month, with the kind of no-nonsense hospitality that keeps people coming back. When the pairing of Nomads and Stereo was announced, tickets moved quickly. Sixty quid plus doesn't frighten whiskey folk when the calibre is right, and at £75 a head, this one felt like fair exchange before anyone had lifted a glass.

Stereo itself is the sort of place that earns its praise quietly. Nestled in East Belfast, it brings a genuine culinary ambition to a neighbourhood with growing confidence in its food and drink culture — a tír that's been finding its feet as a proper destination in its own right. The small plates format proved a natural companion to the tasting structure: each course arriving as a considered counterpoint to whichever single cask expression Peder and Annie had chosen to pour alongside it. The kitchen and the hosts appeared to have thought carefully about the architecture of the evening, and it showed.

What the Whiskey Nomads have always understood — and what made this collaboration sing — is that whiskey tasting is seanchas as much as it is sensory exercise. The stories behind the casks, the distilleries, the decisions that shaped each dram: these are the threads that bind an audience together over two or three hours. Peder and Annie carry that duchas with them naturally, and in Stereo's intimate surrounds, with good food on the table, the conversation flowed as freely as the whiskey. If you want to explore more of what Belfast Whiskey Week has offered in that spirit of deep, contextual tasting, sessions like the Bushmills History MasterClass and the Bushmills Causeway Collection MasterClass offer a sense of just how rich that tradition runs through the festival.

The single cask focus was the right call for this kind of evening. Single casks reward attention — they ask you to slow down, compare notes with the person beside you, argue gently about whether that's dried apricot or candied orange peel on the finish. Paired with food that was clearly designed to complement rather than compete, the experience felt genuinely considered rather than assembled for novelty. This wasn't whiskey as spectacle; it was whiskey as conversation. Sláinte to that.

Session 1 of the Whiskey Nomads x Stereo pairing was, by all accounts, a reminder of what Belfast Whiskey Week does at its best: bring the right people together in the right room and let the whiskey do its work. For those who missed out, it's well worth keeping an eye on the event page for any future iterations — because when something lands this well, it tends to come back.