Today we’d like to introduce you to Todd Waufle.
Hi Todd, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I have always loved beer and especially craft beer. My wife found some home brewing equipment at an estate sale for a good price. She had no clue to what she was buying but said “you love beer so maybe you can try brewing sometime.” It sat in my basement for two years collecting dust. One day I decided to try a brew. It did not go well. Then I brewed another batch. The first year I brewed four batches and started reading, watching and learning as much as I could.
The next five years I became a moth to a flame brewing nearly 300 batches and brewing at least one batch nearly every week. I took beer to every barbeque, party and function our family attended. With such an obsession it just made sense to open up a brewpub. I was having fun and had become a serial homebrewer. I admittedly had a brewing problem.
We felt it was important to have food as well so we started experimenting in our home kitchen with breads, bacons, sausages etc. The bread recipe we fell in love with was my Grandma Waufle’s secret recipe which was over 100 years old and developed in the Midwest.
We wanted a place of special connection at the brewpub so we spent hundreds of hours crafting an old world look and custom making nearly all of the bar and furniture. Virtually every piece of furniture has a special story. It has taken an entire village to put our place together. We started with just a little over 3,000 sq feet and now we have expanded to 9,000 sq feet not including a beautiful patio with gorgeous flowers on a tree line and bike path of the Highline canal.
Fun has always been a part of our family culture so we decided to name it Satire to represent fun and humor. The world can be so serious and we want people to come in relax, smirk at the juvenile humor in the menu and have some fun. People love reading the menu and it makes for some entertaining conversations.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Imagine the worst road you have ever driven on with potholes, perhaps some of the roads in rural Eastern Colorado and you will be able to visualize the path to start a brewery, especially without knowing anything about the field. There were dozens of challenges so where do we start? Getting licensed, finding a space, getting code changed once we found a possible space, equipment breakdowns, co2 issues with beer, learning curve dialing in recipes to a bigger size (one of our first brews was a pumpkin beer and it turned into over a 21 hour brew day), investor stepping out after we signed our lease,
covid shut down and regulations eighteen months after opening, all costs of doing business increasing substantially, etc
However, with all of these challenges and many more, we just stayed positive and knew we could overcome them all. When we kept our hands to the plow and kept working, things always worked out. We have always felt the hand of divine providence pulling us through every challenge.
We’ve been impressed with I have owned a financial services business and have been a financial advisor for over 30 years and now we also own the brewpub Satire Brewing Company, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
With Satire Brewing, we represent fun and connection. People are choosing us for their most special family and company events. It is humbling to think of all the important occasions that have been celebrated here from first dates to 50th anniversary parties, retirements, birthdays etc.
We are more than just a brewery with a beautiful interior and warm feel, 34 beer taps which we make all of the beers ourselves on site, full bar with cocktails, made from scratch food, event space and televisions for sports watchers, and an authentic beer garden and patio. If we say anymore people will think we are lying.
Our focus is to always be creative and innovative with everything we do from food, beer, cocktails, decor, humor etc..
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
The people who just meet me at the brewpub may not know I am a financial advisor and own a financial business. I had short hair, wore nice button downs, golf shirts and slacks for years. Now I have let my hair grow out, only shave on occasion, wear t shirts and shorts, and even with the t shirts I cut the sleeves out for working in the brewing room in the summer. When I go out in the tasting room it is fun because customers don’t think I am an owner so they treat me different, which is great. I get some good feedback that way too.
Pricing:
- We are a great value place and you will get what you pay for. Great service at your table, lots of drink choices, food that is filling and a tasting room that doesn’t look like a warehouse. All of our pricing is on our website.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.satirebrewingcompany.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/satirebrewingco/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SatireBrewingCompany
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/satire-brewing/about/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@satirebrewingcompany7490
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/satire-brewing-company-thornton?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
