Anyone up to speed on Dayton’s game-changing innovators knows about Maurice F. Krug’s Space Food. Wright Patterson Air Force Base credits Krug, a Dayton native, with its groundbreaking invention in 1956.

What is Space Food? Well, it started as a slimy goop.

According Huffington Post contributor Christine Buckley, who writes in her blog about a trip she took to NASA’s Space Center in Houston, “Space Food was invented by Maurice Krug and initially consisted of soft mushy applesauce squeezed out of a tube directly into the astronauts’ mouths in order to prevent blobs of food from floating all over the spaceship.”

Curt Dalton, a Dayton Historian and author of "Dayton Inventions: Fact and Fiction," published by Dalton and Montgomery County Historical Society in 2003, writes, “Maurice F. Krug, founder of Krug International, has been linked with inventing space food. In actuality, the Life Science Division of Krug in Houston, Texas, merely prepared the food for the space program.”

Although Krug’s connection to Space Food is a little ambiguous, Warped Wing’s not stopping the party. But what’s its connection to beer?

“If astronauts could drink beer in space, this is what they’d drink," says Nick Bowan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Warped Wing.

The Space Food American IPA is a golden yellow in color, with a citrus and fruity aroma and flavors from Citra, Vic Secret and Mosaic hops. It is light, nutty and finishes very bitter. For the beer connoisseurs, it’s 7% ABV and clocks in at 96 IBU.