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: 22 Jul 2024
By: Belfast Whiskey Week
Read: 3 min
Ref: BWW/24/796

When the Whiskey Nomads pitched up at Stereo on Belfast's Eastside on the 22nd of July 2024, they brought with them everything that has made their monthly tastings a fixture in the city's cultural calendar — honest knowledge, exceptional single cask selections, and a genuine sense of occasion. Paired with Stereo's quietly celebrated kitchen, this was always going to be one of the standout evenings of Belfast Whiskey Week 2024.

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's a particular kind of duchas — a sense of belonging — that the best whiskey events manage to conjure, and the Whiskey Nomads have always understood that instinctively. Peder and Annie have built their monthly tastings not on spectacle, but on substance: careful cask selection, unpretentious presentation, and the kind of seanchas around each dram that makes a room lean in. Taking that formula into Stereo's intimate Eastside space for Session 2 of the week felt entirely natural — two operations that have earned their reputations quietly, through quality rather than noise.

Stereo is one of those East Belfast spots that local food lovers speak about with quiet pride. The menu leans into small plates done with genuine creativity, and the kitchen's approach — bold flavour combinations, local sourcing where it matters — proved an excellent foil for the single cask whiskies Peder and Annie had assembled. Each pairing felt considered rather than contrived, the food drawing out facets of the spirit that a neat pour alone might have left half-hidden. A sherried cask softened and deepened alongside something richly savoury; a lighter, coastal-leaning dram found its counterpart in something brighter from the kitchen.

At £75 a head, this was an evening that asked guests to invest — and repaid that investment generously. The single cask format is an unforgiving one in the best possible way: there's nowhere to hide behind a blended house style, and each whisky had to stand on its own character. That the selections held their ground so convincingly was a testament to the Nomads' eye for a cask. Conversations around the room drifted easily between the food, the whisky, and the stories behind each — the kind of evening that stretches late without anyone quite noticing the time passing.

For those who want to explore the wider world of whiskey education that Belfast Whiskey Week has built over the years, it's worth noting the depth of the programme elsewhere in the festival. Sessions like the Bushmills History MasterClass and the Bushmills Causeway Collection MasterClass offer a different register entirely — deep dives into provenance and production — and together with evenings like this Nomads collaboration, they illustrate just how broad the uisce beatha conversation in Belfast has become.

The Whiskey Nomads x Stereo pairing was, in the end, a reminder of something this festival has always known: that whisky tastes better when the room around it has been chosen with care. Sláinte to Peder, Annie, and the Stereo team for an evening that did the Eastside proud.