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.
Can, from Trader Joe's Chicago. Pours hazy dark yellow-amber with a small foamy light beige head, citrus peel aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter orange peel taste with pineapple flavor, thin smooth body, long citrus peel finish. Well balanced, smooth and easy to drink.
Small draft. Expected hazy yellow. Light spicy hefe nose. Taste goes straight down the standard for this style. Toasty malt with a bit of clove. Don't catch the banana some hefes get, which is fine by me. Catching a slight bit of bubblegum, not excessive. And a tickle of German hop as a go with.
Big, cheesy, awkward old school first gen American sour style sour. Brett and funky tones are there, big sweet tart. Mess of a beer overall, more.just an experiment, lacks direction.
Listed as a Vienna on the menu. Deep pretzel amber malt example of the style. Relatively full bodied for the moderate ABV. Rich caramel/Munich malt tone. Solid.
Can, from a Jewel Osco in Chicago. Pours cloudy rich lemon yellow with a foamy off-white small head, faint citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter sharp citrus peel taste with pineapple, thin body, long citrusy finish. Decent NEIPA dominated by citrus peel taste.
16 oz can from Beerhead, canned 6/20/22. Friendly, malty beer smell under the tab. Bright yellow pour with some unfiltered floaties, and a puffy white head. Taste is market and even a little lemony. Not as dry as a lager, of course. But a rather substation mouthfeel that it's bright color does not hint at. Very good for a kölsch, which one should always keep on hand for light beer loving friends.
Can, from Foxtrot, Chicago. Pours faintly cloudy amber with a large foamy beige head, caramel malt aroma, high carbonation, medium bitter caramel malt taste, smooth thin body, long caramel finish, smooth and tasty.
Can, from Trader Joe's, Chicago. Pours clear dark amber-copper with a large foamy beige head, caramel-coffee aroma, high carbonation, medium bitter caramel malt-coffee taste, smooth thin body, long coffee caramel finish. A nice amber ale.