The distillery was built in 1821 by Peter Brown with two stills, and started production in 1825 with a capacity of 4,500 litres per year.

[2] In 1902 Innes Cameron joined the Linkwood-Glenlivet company and became managing director of the Linkwood distillery until his death in 1932.

In 1962, Scottish Malt Distillers decided the distillery needed to be completely refurbished.

With the build of Linkwood B the two distilleries reached their current combined capacity of 2.5 million litres per year.

[5] In 2008, Diageo resumed full production with three different official bottlings of Linkwood released.