The motto of JAKs Brewing Company is meant to bring a smile to your face, but it has a far deeper meaning. Just as our name refers to our founders (Jeff, Antonio, and Ken), our logo’s red star and the unit emblems and photos on our walls all point to the rich heritage, culture, and sense of belonging that so characterizes the Air Force family.

 So, while JAKs makes “Aggressive Beer for Aggressive Beer Drinkers,” we are unapologetically family-focused, community-oriented, and proud of our roots.

It’s how we were raised.

At JAKs, we draw our traditions from two great Air Force legacies, those of the 26th Space Aggressor Squadron (26 SAS) and the 310thBombardment Group (today, the 310th Space Wing) in which our founders proudly served. The 26 SAS prepares U.S. and Allied warfighters for combat by replicating adversary space threats in major training exercises (such as RED FLAG). The red star, the symbol of the fallen Soviet Union is, today, the unifying emblem of the Air Force Aggressor program…and of JAKs Brewing. Long before she was an Aggressor squadron, though, she served in WWI as the 26th Pursuit Squadron and in WWII as the 26th Bombardment Squadron. She was nearly destroyed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941, and the 26th spent the rest of the war driving the Japanese back to their home islands.