The Cameronbridge distillery was built in 1824 near the Fife town of Windygates along with the establsihment of John Haig & Co, a legendary blending company with links to both the Haig and Stein distilling dynasties. John Haig always had his finger firmly on the pulse of modernisation, and was one of the first distillers to use patent stills. When Alfred Barnard visited in the 1880s, the distillery operating two Stein patent stills (invented by his cousin, Robert), two coffey stills and pot still for producing Irish style grain. 

Cameronbridge was one of the original founders of the famous Distillers Company Limited grain whisky cartel and despite being run independently from it until 1919, it is today the only fully Diageo-owned grain distillery in Scotland. 

Although provision of their blends has always been its key purpose (as well as grain neutral spirit for Smirnoff and Gordon's, as of 1998), the distillery has two single grain brands, the historic Cameron Brig, and the recently devised Haig Club single grain whisky endorsed by David Beckham. Aside from Haig Club official bottlings of Cameronbridge’s grain whisky are rare, though in recent years some excellent indie bottlings have appeared.