The people who run this place
Pizza makers, bartenders, hosts, musicians, collectors, problem-solvers and friends. Every one of them has a job, a shift, an opinion about the menu, and something they are better at than you are.
Come in on a Friday and you'll meet most of them.
Front of house · Server
Rachel is the reason a lot of people come back. She is bubbly, thoughtful and unfailingly polite, and she has a knack for making a table feel welcome before she has even set the food down.
She takes real pride in Brewability's pizzas — carrying them out, presenting them properly, checking you have everything you need. Ask her about her pop-can tab collection.
Kitchen · Front of house
Jorge is a friend to everyone who walks in. He has the kind of open, easy warmth that makes strangers relax, and he brings it to every shift.
He also plays the clarinet, and he plays it on the worship team at his church. It is the same instinct in two places: he likes bringing people together, whether that is settling a table at Brewability or holding a line of music for a room full of people singing.
Brew Crew
José brings a performer's energy to every shift. He loves Michael Jackson, and if you ask him for a little “Billie Jean,” there is a good chance he will put on a performance—with a smile on his face from beginning to end.
Whether he is dancing, singing or simply chatting with a guest about something they love, José has a gift for making people feel welcome and sending them away smiling.
Crew
Aaron has a gift for spotting value in things that might otherwise be overlooked. He collects bicycles, vacuums and objects ready for a second life—and he is usually right that something special is still there.
Bicycles are what he loves most, and his dream is to own a shop one day. It is easy to picture him welcoming people, matching each person with the right bike and helping well-used bicycles find someone new to love them.
That hopeful outlook is part of what makes Aaron special. He sees possibility first and reminds all of us how much can grow when someone takes the time to notice.
Front of house
Stephanie is curious about people. Properly curious — she will ask you where you are from, what you do, what brought you in, and she will remember the answer. She likes finding out what makes somebody different from the last person she talked to.
She also loves mermaids, which we mention because you will find out within about four minutes of meeting her.
Brew Crew
Alex brings wholehearted enthusiasm to every shift. He is blind, a devoted football fan and the person to ask if you want the score, the story behind a player or a thoughtful prediction about what happens next.
He brings that same attention to people. Alex loves getting to know everyone, listens closely and has a way of offering advice that is both honest and kind. A conversation with him rarely stays small talk for long—you tend to leave it feeling seen, encouraged and a little more confident than when it began.
Bar manager
Avery pours the beer, runs the bar, and uses his voice and experience to show what adults with disabilities can achieve when they are given a real opportunity.
He didn't get his first job until he was 21. Not for lack of wanting one. He grew up in and out of hospitals, and by the time his health was steady enough to work consistently, he was starting from behind everybody his age. Brewability was the place that said yes.
“I have spent much of my life feeling defined by illnesses and disabilities. I do not want anyone else to believe that a diagnosis determines their value, or everything they are capable of becoming. I want to turn my story into purpose rather than pain, and use what I have experienced to help create opportunities for other people.”
He built this website, mostly so the rest of the Brew Crew would have somewhere to be seen properly.
He also created Walk With Bravery, a website built to empower adults with disabilities and show how AI can expand skill sets, open creative possibilities and help more people turn their ideas into something real.
On shift
Who started it
Tiffany taught adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. Her students finished her programme ready to work, and found that almost nobody would hire them. So in 2016 she opened a brewery in a garage and hired them herself.
Ten years later there are twenty-six of us.
Where they went next
A workplace that nobody ever leaves isn't a job. It's a placement with a rota.
Brewability is meant to be a beginning. People arrive having often never been trusted with anything, and they learn the things a first job teaches anyone — turning up, handling money, working a rush, being relied on, being good at something in front of other people. Some stay for years. Some take those skills somewhere else entirely, which is the outcome we are quietly proudest of.
If you employed someone who started here, you already know the standard.
Brewability to-do — this section is built but empty on purpose.
Add former crew here only once you've asked them and they've said yes, and only with what they want shared. A good entry is a name, a photo they like, what they did here, and where they went — one or two sentences.
If someone left for reasons they'd rather not discuss, they simply don't go on the page. Nobody needs to be accounted for.
Order a pizza. Ask Rachel about the tabs. Ask Jorge about the clarinet. Ask José about Michael Jackson. Ask Stephanie anything at all.
Brewability to-do — before this page goes live.