Around 41 jobs are to be created at Belfast’s first working distillery in nearly 90 years when it opens its doors in the Titanic Quarter at the end of this month.
Titanic Distillers, the company behind the project, said it has invested some £8 million in converting the Titanic Pumphouse into a new distillery and visitor centre which will produce its own spirits. It has installed three new stills situated on the mezzanine floor overlooking the original pumping engines, used to pump water out of the neighbouring Thompson Dry Dock. The dock first opened in 1944 to service and accommodate White Star liners Olympic and Titanic.
Behind Titanic Distillers are three local entrepreneurs, Peter Lavery, Stephen Symington and Richard Irwin.
