The Clydeside distillery was founded in 2017, becoming the second modern day distillery to be constructed in Glasgow after the Glasgow Distillery, which opened a couple of years earlier. Built on Stobcross Road in the Queen’s Dock area by the SECC on the north bank of the river, Clydeside was the brainchild of Stanley Walker (Tim) Morrison, who had overseen the sale of his family’s Morrison Bowmore Distillers business to Suntory in the 1990s while in the same period reacquiring the rights to the historic Glasgow whisky broking and bottling business A.D. Rattray which had been founded by his ancestor Andrew Dewar Rattray in 1868.

After reviving the historic Stronachie single malt name for A.D. Rattray using stock sourced from Benrinnes , the Morrison family founded Morrison Glasgow Distillers to create the Clydeside distillery, which has a capacity of over 600,000 litres per year and is managed today by Tim Morrison’s son Andrew Morrison. Clydeside released their first Lowland single malt whisky, named Stobcross after the old dock, in 2021, and the ongoing Stobcross core range bottling matured in bourbon and sherry casks was joined by Napier, a sherry-matured 6-year old, in 2024.