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{{Short description|American brand of malt liquor}}
{{Infobox Beer
|name    = Clix  Malt Liquor
|image   = [[Image:Clix.jpg]]
|caption = Clix Malt Liquor
|brewery = [[Grand Valley Brewing Company]]
|style   = [[Malt Liquor]]
|year    = 1939
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Clix is a brand of [[malt liquor]] made by the [[Grand Valley Brewing Company]] in 1937. It is often credited as the first malt liquor brewed in the United States.<ref>[http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/maltliquor.html A Story without Heroes: The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203100052/http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/maltliquor.html |date=2006-12-03 }}  A History of Malt Liquor.  April 30, 2005.  Accessed on November 20, 2007.</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~ggsurplus/beerstyles.html |title=Beer Styles. Accessed November 21, 2007 |access-date=November 23, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203094619/http://home.earthlink.net/~ggsurplus/beerstyles.html |archive-date=December 3, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Brewery owner 'Click' Koerber is the creator of the process and owner of the patent<ref>[http://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 US Patent Office, #2442806 June 1948]</ref> that details the production of Clix malt liquor.

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==External links==
*[http://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 Link to US Patent]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061203100052/http://home.earthlink.net/~ggghostie/maltliquor.html A thorough history of Malt Liquor]

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