Construction started in 1957 on the site of a meal-mill and was completed in 1960, initially with three stills with the intention of triple distillation.

[3] The output of the distillery was originally used in blends such as Chivas Regal, Passport and 100 Pipers but Chivas Brothers also used it as a laboratory for experiments with innovations in production and processing, for example developing their own strains of yeast.

[2] In the 1990s the distillery released an official bottling under the name Glen Keith 1983.

Extensive reconstruction work began in 2012 and the distillery was reopened in June 2013.

[3] At the time of the distillery's reopening, Chivas Brothers intended that its annual production would be six million litres of spirit, almost all of which would be used in blended whiskies destined for export.