A veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as a flight test engineer, Jake Jackson first began his own homebrew in 2012. After retiring from the Air Force in 2018 in Maryland, he and his wife resolved to do two things: move to the mountains, and start a brewery.
Round three or four of the brewery young guns slam fest got seriously toned down this year. From previous years’ mash-ups, with heavy doses of bathroom humor, this beer maven summit transformed itself into an historical, sociological, political, aesthetic feast of rare talent gathered on one platform. Of course, it took the legendary Dave Alexander,