Fleadh Tasting: Irish Beer and Irish Cheese

What to Expect

Indie Fude’s Ormeau Road food hall hosts a guided beer and cheese tasting timed to coincide with Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann week in Belfast, when the city is host to the national Irish traditional music festival and thousands of visitors are in town for the competitions and street sessions. The two-hour session pairs beers from north coast producer Heaney Brewery with artisan cheeses from Dart Mountain Cheese, a County Derry maker whose cheeses have picked up multiple awards, with staff talking guests through each pairing and the story behind how the beer and cheese were made. It is a relaxed, educational format rather than a formal dinner, run in Indie Fude’s Ormeau shop and event space, and gives visitors in Belfast for Fleadh a chance to sit down and taste two of the north of Ireland’s better-known small producers side by side rather than just sampling in passing at a festival stall. Indie Fude runs food and drink tasting nights of this kind regularly through the year, usually built around a particular producer, region or theme, so this Fleadh-timed session is one of a rolling programme rather than a one-off, and gives a good sense of the kind of producer-led evenings the shop runs across the rest of the year.

Good to Know

• Saturday 8 August 2026, 7pm to 9pm
• Indie Fude, 232 Ormeau Road, Belfast
• Guided tasting of Heaney Brewery beers paired with Dart Mountain cheeses
• Price and booking via Eventbrite; no refunds once booked
• Part of Indie Fude’s regular producer-led tasting programme, held at both its Ormeau and Comber shops

Getting There

Indie Fude’s Ormeau Road shop is a short walk from the Ormeau Embankment and well served by Metro buses running along the Ormeau Road corridor into Belfast city centre. On-street parking is available nearby, and Botanic rail station is roughly a fifteen-minute walk away for anyone arriving by train, making it an easy add-on to a day spent at the Fleadh’s city-centre stages and street sessions.