The distillery was founded in 1824 and in 1830 became the first distillery to produce grain whiskey using the column still method invented by Robert Stein. In 1877 John Haig & Co merged with five other whiskey companies to form the Distillers Company, with John Haig & Co coming under DCL's full ownership in 1919. Cameron Bridge produced both grain and malt whiskey using a combination of pot stills and column stills until 1929 , when it shifted exclusively to grain whiskey production.