Belt’s Beer Garden: History in the Making

Chicago’s far western suburbs have been seeing a huge explosion of new breweries over the past few years. The tri-city area of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles went from just one brewery in 2017 (Penrose) to now having EIGHT breweries within six miles of each other.

While Pollyanna and Alter opened up secondary locations in the area, a few new breweries have also popped up...including one that opened up last year, right in the middle of the pandemic - Art History Brewing.

Art History opened early in 2020 after owner Tom Rau graduated with a diploma in International Brewing Technology from the Siebel Institute of Technology and the World Brewing Academy in Munich, Germany. So, with that…