What the Ale: American Solera's I Can See My House From Here is the beer of the week

American Solera's I Can See My House From Here

American Solera, 1702 E. Sixth St., has this week's beer of the week. I Can See My House From Here is a coolship hefeweizen that comes in at 4.6% ABV.

A coolship is an open style of brewing, and American Solera has the only built-in coolship in the state. Coolship beers typically brew during the colder months to cool the wort down faster.

"We’ve decided the coolship we have in our brewery, while it's useful in the colder months, we really wanted to get some more beers turned through it. Using it in the spring when the weather's still a little cool out allows us to create an open-fermented beer using the tank. So when we’re producing wheat beer, we’re producing it like anyone else would, but instead of knocking it out and fermenting it in one of our big fermenters, we just put it inside of the coolship and allow it to ferment open," Chase Healey, co-founder of American Solera, says.

Chase Healey holds his new beer, American Solera's I Can See My House From Here.

This brewing method takes the pressure off the beer and allows the yeast to ferment in an open environment.

"More than anything, it's just geeky and kind of fun for us as brewers," he says, adding that it's an easy drinker and perfect for summer. It's ready in six-packs at the brewery. "This is one we’re hoping to keep around and brew as long as people are loving it. It's really just a lot of fun to produce it, to watch the fermentation, to watch it be just foamy."

Matt Denham fills the coolship with what will become American Solera's I Can See My House From Here.

Ameican Solera's coolship is in a sealed room with oak staves from the same location as where its fermenting barrels came from in Missouri.

"It creates a unique experience for people when they’re in the taproom and drinking and get to see live active yeast fermenting. It's typically hidden away inside one of the stainless tanks. And using that room allows people to see the beer," Healey says.

The beer's name came from a childhood memory of Healey — looking at the foam reminded him of clouds and being up high above the clouds. He remembers, as a kid, being in a skyscraper and being able to see his home. Hence the name I Can See My House From Here.

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