Clix Malt Liquor Explained

Clix Malt Liquor
Brewery:	Grand Valley Brewing Company
Style:	Malt Liquor
Year:	1939

Clix is a brand of malt liquor first made by the Grand Valley Brewing Company in Ionia, Michigan in 1937. It is often credited as the first malt liquor brewed in the United States.^[1] At Gluek Brewing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Alvin Gluek had a similar idea in 1942. The style is light in body, thin and sweetish in taste, and high in alcohol.^[2]

Brewery owner 'Click' Koerber was the creator of the process and owner of the patent^[3] that details the production of Clix malt liquor.

External links

• Link to US Patent
• A thorough history of Malt Liquor

Notes and References

1. http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/maltliquor.html A Story without Heroes: The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor
2. Web site: Beer Styles. Accessed November 21, 2007 . November 23, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061203094619/http://home.earthlink.net/~ggsurplus/beerstyles.html . December 3, 2006 . dead .
3. Web site: US Patent Office, #2442806 June 1948 . 21 November 2007 . 17 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200917191636/https://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=02442806&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPALL%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D2,442,806.PN.%2526OS%3DPN%2F2,442,806%2526RS%3DPN%2F2,442,806&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=NONE&Input=View+first+page . dead .