{"id":705676,"date":"2026-06-15T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705676\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:25:07","slug":"how-the-ph1-barrel-became-a-legend-in-americas-craft-beer-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705676\/","title":{"rendered":"How the PH1 barrel became a legend in America&#8217;s craft beer scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JUGH5F4KSZFF7CVWON4BERUJBM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">CHICAGO \u2014 John Laffler is nervous about making his mark on American brewing history.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QFXCTVZYKFHDLC5D6LNADXRYE4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">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-sized logo: off color brewing in lowercase script around Mischief, the establishment\u2019s grain mouse mascot. Some of the marks are so dark that the scorched lettering bleeds together; others so light as to be almost invisible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 John Laffler is nervous about making his mark on American brewing history. On a Thursday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-705676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}