About Pollyanna

Crafted Optimism

OUR STORY

Pollyanna Brewing and Distilling provides our customers with an intimate experience that goes beyond what's in their glass. By sharing our knowledge and advancing the culture of craft beer and craft spirits, our brand focuses on creating a relationship between our customers and the brewery, brewer, distiller, and local community. As an integral part of the communities we do business in, we strive to work in cooperation with local organizations to benefit the community as a whole.

Pollyanna Drinks

Since opening our Lemont location in September of 2014, we have always focussed on keeping our beer and spirits clean and consistent with a strong focus on balance. We feel our five flagship offerings best represent Pollyanna and take pride in their year-round availability (we package everything in cans!). 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 16oz cans, 64oz growlers, 32oz howlers, or 32oz crowlers. Our Lemont location offers a scenic look at our production 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 our distilling operations as well as the Fox River. Keep an eye out for a constant rotation of special firkins, cocktails, and taproom only offerings at each location.

Pollyanna Drinks
Pollyanna Drinks

Crafted Optimism

Our Lemont brewhouse consists of a steam-heated, over-sized, 15-barrel mash/lauter tun and boil kettle/whirlpool. We brew into one of eleven (11) 30-barrel fermenters, which gives us the capacity to produce nearly 6,000 barrels (about 186,000 gallons / 1,500,000 pints) of beer per year. Our dual-stage heat exchanger and massive glycol chiller give us the ability to brew clean, balanced lagers at any time during the year. Our creative, German-trained brewmaster brews some of the most consistent, well-maintained flagship beers around and introduces experimental and one-off offerings to DIE for.

OUR TEAM

This is us. This is us at our most awkward. Enjoy awkward us.

Brian

BRIAN PAWOLA

Head Brewer / Distiller / Co-Founder

Ryan

RYAN WEIDNER

President / CEO / Co-Founder

Ed

ED MALNAR

Retired! / Co-Founder

Randy

Nick Miller

St Charles & Pollyanna Social General Manager

Nick

Kara Cascio

Lemont & Roselle General Manager

Terese

Vince Hansen

Lead Brewer

Kara

Matt Levy

Operations Manager

Vince

Randy Douglas

Lead Keyholder Lemont
Head Coffee Roaster

Jon
Matt

Abby Ray

Social Media

Adam

Marc vloedman

Brewing

Marc

IVAN CHAPA

Brewing, Packaging, Logistics

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Matt Marrera

Lead Keyholder Roselle

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Patricia Maka

Social Media - Pollyanna Social

Outside Pollyanna Roselle Location
St Charles Distilling Pollyanna Location
Outside Lemont Pollyanna Location

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