American Solera

 

Love this place. I have been here twice now over the last two years. We have held corporate events in their brew space and they are always very accommodating. We had a group of about 25 people and this was the perfect area for walking around and socializing. The beers are always solid and the staff is really nice as well. Highly recommended.

Bigger room, with white being the prominent color of the peaked ceiling with steel girders, painted brick walls, and bar and table tops. Light grey concrete floor. Brewing equipment sits in open view to one side of the room. Seating at the bar, community tables, tables with four chairs, and lounge areas with sofas and cushioned chairs. Outside covered patio. Event rooms at the back. Sixteen taps offer a good range of styles. Coolers with to go cans and merchandise are to one side of the bar. Friendly staff. Lots of room to roam around. Cavernous type room mixes the crowd noise well.

 

I visited American Solera a few weeks ago while exploring Tulsa. The brewery has a big, airy, spacious taproom; it’s clean and a bit industrial, but still quite welcoming. There are big foeders everywhere, which lends a lot to the atmosphere. I sat up at the bar and service was great.

There were 13 beers on tap when I was there: a golden pilsner, Vienna lager, wine barrel aged sour, farmhouse beer with raspberries, oak aged farmhouse beer aged on cherry skins, fruited gose, 5 different IPAs of various description, and a couple of heavy duty stouts. I had a couple of the fruited farmhosue beers and they were outstanding. If I ever get back to Tulsa, American Solera will be my first stop!

Large industrial building to theceast of downtown in an area undergoing some urban renewal. Open and airy taproom with long straight bar against the entrance wall on the left seats about 18. Lots a seating options about the place. Brewhouse is visible opposite the bar partitioned off from the taproom. 13 beers on tap, I enjoyed the 2 I tried very much. Friendly bartender. Food truck in the courtyard parking lot.

 

Must visit spot if in Tulsa...cool large room with lots of high vaulted ceilings and LOTS of glass...they have a cool ship for funky fermentation activities....Super chill spot, staff, crowd, beers...sours, brett beers, hazies, 15 taps, loads of cans and bottles to go in cooler units, clean, well lit place, snacks and smashburgers...mighty fine spot and mighty fine beers, friendly staff and ample parking in lots just outside....just go

Day 1 speed round wind down, and the ride in from greater OKC, survived. Wait, did I imagine an 80 MPH zone, or what? Drove out to Tulsa late to hit a brewery player, which seems to share a parking lot with another brewery I won’t be able to look in on. Would if I could, but having overplayed my OKC hand, I’m staring down the dimming of the day…

It’s a large vaulted hangeresque building. Cinder block walls with lots of panel window play & roll up door action, chalky green concrete floors, & a curvy corrugated ceiling to a glow lit point atop. Drop hairdryer lamps tracing the bar, sunken spots on the overhang, & pan lamps and ducts out over the floor. Bottle & can cooler on the end and merch zone, too. Flats on the upright I-beam pillars showing game, and a very large American flag hung correctly. Foeders fronting the brewery tanks to the rear, and barrels racked back there. Barrels for the stand around off the bar and seating beyond there; tables in 2 rows of 4, and another 6 about the room, + the corner couch/cushy set ups and another dozen + on I-beam bar counter space over there (me, pointing).

Along the front wall, a white marble topped ‘L’ shaped bar, black hexagon base, and no foot bar but there’s no seating so no need for all that, I suppose. The barback holds alt height wood shelving with all sorts of glassware, books, growls, taster paddles, pics, plants, pieces, & stuff. Vertical slat tap boards on the ends show beer, style, ABV, serving size, & cost. 2 barbell towers with 8 logo handles each along the bar.

16 taps, a mix of good and evil; figure out where that line is for yourself (Boat Wave, Ginger Lemon Hefeweizen, 4.8%; All the Sports, Grapefruit Lime Salted Lager, 5%; Loral Roberts, Kolsch DH with Loral, 5%; DH Western Vibes, DH Lager aged in Oak, 5.2%; Dama De Tigre, Farmhouse Ale aged in Oak with Raspberries, 6%; 9 to 5 Pale Ale, Pale Ale DH with Cascade, 5.5%; These Hops are Wet, Wet Hopped Cascade IPA, 6%; Terpy Wet Hop, Wet Hopped Chinook DIPA, 8%; Year 5 DIPA, DIPA with Incognito, Citra, Lupomax, & Citra Cryo, 8%; Two and a Half Hops, DIPA DH with Strata & Nelson Sauvin, 8.2%; Mango Boom Boom, Imperial Gose with a lot of shit in it, 8%; Cara Cara Boom Boom, Imperial Gose with not as much shit in it, 8%; Ice Cream Social Distant Ice Cream, J. Wakefield collab, Imperial Stout with Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, & Banana, 13%; BA Dad’s Making Breakfast, Imperial Stout aged single Malt & Whiskey barrels, with Maple & Coffee, 13%; Year 5 Blend, Imperial Stout aged in Blanton’s Barrels, 13%; Caleb’s Killer Hard Lemonade, Hard Seltzer with Lemons, 5%).

DH Western Vibes Lager was really fucking good. Oh, Oak, how I do love thee; Dama De Tiger, Farmhouse Ale was lovely; 9 to 5 Pale Ale was excellent; These Hops are Wet, Wet Hop Cascade IPA did not suck; and Terpy Wet Hop DIPA was also solid. I did 5 shortys and they were all very, very good but I’m going with 9 to 5 PA & Dama De Tiger for the wins.

Event space to the rear where something’s going on just now. Give me your food! Bring it here to me so that I may eat of it! And the outdoor space on the artificial turf between buildings is theirs, too. Oh, that’s where everyone is. A row of 8 picnics under awning there + a too cool for you roped off area.

I’m sitting indoors by myself. No, I have no special stink, it’s just that I’m judging you for drinking an adjunct Stout when you could be drinking the Oak aged Lager or Farmhouse, and I feel like I may something to you about it if you're close enough. The beers that I had were all very good, and in the style range I generally play in. I kind of wish I had more time to skirt the edges of my beer comfort zone with the other end of the list I generally don’t visit. Good house, chill crowd. Glad I got to see the place.

 

 

 

 

If you are into sours this is a must visit. The beers ranged from fruited sours to a NE style pale ale. The beers were nice and the fruit really came through. They also have a nice selection of bottles to take away at reasonable prices. Most were in the $10-$15 dollar range. Overall, I am definitely going to go again when I am back in this part of the country.

Edit: Pretty sure my review was for the other place that is no more. Better location, adjacent to other tap rooms. Nice big wide open layout

Nice communal feel, pretty relaxed, they do have some simple snacks

Beers are for the most part pretty good to good

Sevice was friendly & timely

Heavy emphasis on Wilds & Sours, some other styles as well. Growlers & take-away bottles supplement your choices.

Bring you wallet, pretty pricey beer, but well worth a visit, Food truck outside when I was there. You get a nice tour of the Oil Refineries in Tulsa on the way in. A must visit if in Tulsa, just make sure they are open