The Lochside distillery was founded in 1957 by the controversial Joseph Hobbs (also the owner of the Ben Nevis distillery, to which Lochside owed its operating model) and closed in 1992. It was mainly used to produce the blended whisky Sandy Macnab’‘s. Producing both grain and malt whisky on site, it was also one of very few distilleries in Scotland to produce single blended whiskies.

A very old grain whisky produced at the Lochside distillery in 1964 and bottled in 2015 by The Vintage Malt Co. Ltd for the Cooper's Choice range after almost half a century's ageing in a sherry cask (#6799). Lochside stopped producing grain whisky in 1973. A limited edition of 540 bottles.