A single oak barrel has spent 30 years traveling America’s craft beer scene

CHICAGO — John Laffler is nervous about making his mark on American brewing history. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-May, Laffler holds an electric branding iron over an upright barrel in a backroom of his Lincoln Park brewery. The barrelhead is acned with 55 expressions of the same half-dollar-size...

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