Wayfinder Spirits were conceived by the team at the Treehouse Beaconsfield, with the aim of creating a spirit made for the experimental cocktail industry. After some experimentation, an official distillery license was granted and they began to distill spirits on a larger scale, for bars other than their own.
In 2014 the team took over The Treehouse bar in Beaconsfield to create a pub and distillery tap room called The Wayfinder's Retreat.