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Brewery Steward at ManyFriends



We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams...




This isn't a normal brewing job


ManyFriends Brewing Company -- Saratoga's #1 craft brewery -- is looking for a Brewery Steward.


No experience necessary, we will train. Food handling experience helpful, but not required.




This probably isn't what you're looking for if...

  • Your main reason for wanting to work here is to brew beer. Brewing is part of the job, but brewing will come much later.
  • You're looking primarily for a bartending job. Serving and bussing are part of the work, but this isn't a conventional bar.
  • You aren't interested in cleaning. There is a lot of it. A lot.
  • You want a narrowly defined job where you do only your assigned tasks. This is a small operation, and everyone does pretty-much everything.
  • You're looking for a conventional corporate career path or a chance to climb the ladder at a major beer brand. We're a tiny “Mom & Pop” place.

What the place is like

ManyFriends is a somewhat magical place. While it is a brewery and tasting room, the focus is really on the friends and the atmosphere -- the “vibe”.

It's a living, growing space that requires a lot of care and nurturing to maintain as a special place for all to enjoy. Our job, behind the scenes, is to make the magic happen.


What the job looks like

The day-to-day work is mostly cleaning; lots and lots of cleaning. There are other duties, of course, but if you're not down for a whole lot of cleaning, you probably don't want this job.

So that's the gig: start off with a lot of cleaning and other “grunt work” and, over time, learn and grow into the entire operation.

No single aspect of the work is particularly difficult. It's difficult because there are a lot of things, and each needs to be done correctly and consistently.

For the right person, there's a lot of room to grow. We hope to find someone who can eventually help run the operation and lead and mentor a small team.

  • Hours: Part time; a few hours to start. Expected to grow as we grow. In the beginning, this will likely be your “other job” to earn some additional money. As we both grow, things may expand.
  • Flexibility: We're willing to work with you to help set you up for success.
  • The pay: We're fair and reasonable. Tell us what that means to you.
  • The perks: We're developing a nice package as we grow that may include paid vacation, profit sharing, bonuses, and more. As an early team member, you'll help guide this.
  • The environment: We take the work seriously, especially cleanliness and sanitation. Other than that, it's a pretty chill place to work.
  • Age requirement: You must be 21 years old on your start date.

Some unique benefits to this gig

  • Personalized, on-the-job training. You won't be left hanging. Over time, you'll learn the operation, its many facets, and its nuances.
  • The work can be extremely rewarding if you're the kind of person who enjoys that sort of thing.
  • You'll learn and grow. You'll develop useful skills at a quick pace, with plenty of opportunities to learn new things.
  • No pigeonholing. This isn't a “you do the dishes while other people do the important work” kind of place. Everybody pitches in and, over time, you'll learn more and more of the operation.
  • A BS-free workplace. We'll be upfront with you, and we expect you and the rest of the team to do likewise. “All of the BS here is of our own making, and we alter procedures and processes to eliminate it!”
  • Good people. We're creating a safe, enjoyable, playful space where people can enjoy each other. Customer interactions are generally civil, friendly, and pretty wonderful.
  • A healthy kind of activity. There are few genuinely strenuous tasks, but the work involves regular light physical activity and plenty of opportunities to notice things, solve small problems, and improve how things work.

A few more things to think about

  • We're tiny. The upside is that you'll learn a lot, work closely with a small team, and have a chance to help shape how the place develops. The downside is that this isn't a path to becoming a vice president of worldwide sales at a major brand. Part of the planned growth path is helping take the operation to the next level; that comes later.
  • We don't accept tips. If you were hoping to cash in on your winning smile and stunning personality, this may not be the place. Those things are useful here, but they don't determine your take-home pay. We aim to pay fairly without asking customers to make up the difference.
  • Taking care of a place takes attention. It may look like fun -- and it can be, if you're that kind of person -- but it's an “always on” thing. If that's not for you, maybe enjoy the space we're creating from the other side of the counter.

The first step

Demonstrate your self-sufficiency by finding us and stopping in to chat. (Or send an email or DM if you have questions.) Bonus points if you learn a bit about the company mission -- and are on board -- before you get here.

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.


With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down.


We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself in our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.


A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming
Unearthly, impossible seeming—The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one,
Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.


They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising;
They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which they are going:
But on one man's soul it hath broken, A light that doth not depart;
And his look, or a word he hath spoken, Wrought flame in another man's heart.


And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling;
And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith that their fathers resisted,
And, scorning the dream of to-morrow, Are bringing to pass, as they may,
In the world, for its joy or its sorrow, The dream that was scorned yesterday.


But we, with our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we!
The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing: O men! it must ever be
That we dwell, in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye.


For we are afar with the dawning And the suns that are not yet high,
And out of the infinite morning Intrepid you hear us cry—
How, spite of your human scorning, Once more God's future draws nigh,
And already goes forth the warning That ye of the past must die.


Great hail! we cry to the comers From the dazzling unknown shore;
Bring us hither your sun and your summers; And renew our world as of yore;
You shall teach us your song's new numbers, And things that we dreamed not before:
Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers, And a singer who sings no more.