PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of Warped Wing Brewing Company
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"Nick (Bowman, vice president of marketing) and I were charged with naming the business. We spent eight months working on it, and we wanted to be able to trademark the name. If it wasn't already taken in the beer industry, we'd take it to the trademark office, research further, and consult our trademark attorney. At the end of the day, we didn’t like what we came up with, out of frustration, we started talking about beer names instead. We looked at Dayton’s history, we came back to this figure and this wing. The Wright Brothers studied a Scottish naturalist whose pictures inspired their technology for wing warping, and we turned it around, and thought that 'warped wing' would make a great name." -Joe Waizmann, Warped Wing president. Photo by: Vivienne Machi