Brothers Frank & Hugh Baird establish the Great Canal Brewery. Their vision is to provide consistent high quality beer to the growing Glasgow population.

Malting business setup to supply other brewers. Hugh’s vision to bring consistent high quality malt supply to brewers across the Glasgow region.

Hugh retires and hands over the mantle to sons Hugh(Jnr) & Montague. They follow their father’s vision via the 2 malting sites Port Dundas & Springbank in Glasgow.

An additional floor maltings at Greenwich, London, becomes the 3rd production site, and the first outside of Glasgow.

Up to 20 further floor malting sites across the UK are added to the business as demand for a quality malt product grows.

Witham floor maltings are demolished to make way for the new Wanderhaufen mechanised malting plant.

Bairds purchases a greenfield site in Pencaitland, Edinburgh, to build a pneumatic plant. The land is purchased from the King family who continue to supply quality barley to Bairds to this day.

Moray Firth Malting open a new site at Arbroath.

Moray Firth Maltings completes the purchase of our Grantham maltings. Once a traditional malting area, our Grantham maltings is now the last remaining maltings in the town.

Hugh Bairds merges with Moray Firth Maltings to establish the business with 5 UK malting locations as it remains today. The business mirrors Hugh & Montague’s vision on supplying consistent high quality malt across UK.

A new state of the art 57,000-tonne capacity malting plant is added at our existing Arbroath maltings.

The 1823 Heritage collection is introduced, adding 6 new malts to the Bairds collection.

Scottish Ale Malt is launched – the first malt to be sown, grown and malted in Scotland.

For the second time in a decade, we’re building a new state of the art malting plant to support demand for UK malt.

Completed the refurbishment of our Clova malting plant increasing production capacity by 22,000 tonnes per annum.