Pollyanna Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Lemont, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2014

Contact
431 Talcott Ave, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
Description
Our beer is and will always be clean and consistent with a strong focus on balance. We feel our four flagship offerings best represent Pollyanna and take pride in their year-round availability (we package everything in cans and bottles). We're constantly experimenting with local fruits and spices, seasonal lagers, barrel-aging, wild yeast, and bacteria. In our intimate and truly unique taprooms, we offer tasting flights, draft pours, and to-go 64oz growlers, 32oz howlers, or 32oz crowler cans. Our Lemont location offers a scenic look at the brewery, our Roselle location offers a wide array of wood barrels, Italian Foudres, and a smaller brewhouse for unique one-off offerings, and our St Charles location offers our largest taproom and a beautiful view of the Fox River. Keep an eye out for a constant rotation of special firkins and taproom only offerings at each location.

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught @ Kitty?s, Helsinki. Pours yellowish orange with a smooth head. Aroma of citrus, lemon, grapefruit, stuffy fruitiness and hints of hops. Taste is stuffy, sweetish and lemon juicy with some citrus and pine. Finish is stuffy, sweetish and fruity with some lemon and citrusy notes. Decent, but a bit sweet and not very fresh.

Tried on 16 Dec 2015 at 10:27


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught @ Tommyknocker, Helsinki. Pours pitch black with a smooth bubbly head. Aroma of roasty malts, some burnt rubber, hints of leather, wood and ash. Taste is sweet, stuffy and rubbery with some leather, roastiness, berries and syrup. Finish is stuffy, sweetish and slightly roasty with some leathery rubbery notes. A bit unbalanced.

Tried on 11 Dec 2015 at 09:34


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap@ Tommyknocker. Pours pitch black with a creamy brown head. Dry, roasty, chocolaty aroma, wet wood. Flavor has wood, salty notes, slight tartness, roasted malt. Lacks something.

Tried from Draft on 09 Dec 2015 at 10:10


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

(Keg at Kitty’s, 20151204) The beer poured black. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had burnt malts, ash and coffee. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were burnt malts, ash, creamy coffee, dark chocolate and bitterness. Aftertaste was burnt and bitter. A rather burnt brew lacking mostly everything else.

Tried on 04 Dec 2015 at 07:21


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

Can. Pours a clear orange gold with an off white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma is full of earthy citrus and grapefruit with a bit of grass and onion as well as a sweet grain backbone. Flavor is full of citrus, grass and earthy pine with a hint of onion and a sweet grain backbone.

Tried from Can on 07 Sep 2015 at 20:14


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear reddish amber with a tan head that lasts throughout the beer. Aroma has bread and grain note with a slight biscuit note. Flavor has a good amount of straw and bread with a slight dark grain supporting.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2015 at 17:59


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours black with a creamy dark brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a lots of creamy dark grains with a good amount of roasted malts and a slight bitterness. Flavor has musty dark grains and a light roasted malt note.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2015 at 17:53


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear pale gold with with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a bitter earthy citrus with light grain and a touch of grass. Flavor has a crisp grass and earthy citrus note with a grain backbone.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2015 at 17:44


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a clear light gold with a white head that starts and remains at the edges. Aroma has a decent amount of funk with light sour fruits and a decent amount of flora. Flavor has a nice combination of tart fruits and flora with light grain backing.

Tried from Draft on 06 Sep 2015 at 17:21


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home celebrating the closure of a stressful work project, this stuff is tasting just fantastic! Appearance is a cloudy gold, with a thin white head. Aroma is fantastic, great hop mixture with grass, lemon, resin. Taste goes down with a nice bitterness, not too bitter, nice kick in the back end, overall very enjoyable stuff. Would have again!

Tried from Bottle on 31 Aug 2015 at 19:07