His great-grandson Kane McKenzie Haig, who lived in the Kennetpans area, married Margaret Stein of the Stein family in 1751 and founded the company known as John Haig & Co. Their daughter, also named Margaret, married a local lawyer John Jameson from Alloa in 1788.

On marriage, John and Margaret Jameson moved to Dublin to run a new Stein family distillery in Bow Street which had been opened in 1780.

The Stein, Haig, and Jameson families were significant figures in the whisky market from that time forward.

[5][6] In 1830, it became the first distillery to produce grain whisky using the column still method invented by Robert Stein in 1826 (before the later better-known refinement developed by Aeneas Coffey).

DCL combined with John Walker & Son and Buchanan-Dewar in 1925 and was then acquired by Guinness in 1986,[7] which put it into its United Distillers subsidiary in 1987.