From a small St Leonards warehouse to one of Australia’s best distilleries

Key points

• Kyle Ford left a career in the Air Force to start Finders, a craft distillery, after a two-year trip overseas with his wife Georgia. The couple opened the business in a modest warehouse at Herbert Street, St Leonards, in March 2020, just before Australia's first COVID-19 lockdown.
• Finders now makes several gins, a vodka, limoncello and an agave spirit.
• Its flagship Australian Dry Gin won a gold medal at the 2026 Sydney Royal Distilled Spirits Show, and its vodka earned gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.