Grand Valley Brewing Company

{{Short description|Brewing company}}

{{Infobox Beer

| name = Clix Malt Liquor

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| caption = Clix Stout

| brewery = Grand Valley Brewing Company

| style = Malt liquor

| year = 1939

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The Grand Valley Brewing Company was founded in 1937 in Ionia, Michigan. It created the first malt liquor brewed in the United States.[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.

Brewery owner 'Click' Koerber was the creator of the process and owner of the patent{{Cite web |url=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 |title=US Patent Office, #2442806 June 1948 |access-date=23 November 2007 |archive-date=17 September 2020 |archive-url=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 |url-status=dead }} that details the production of Clix malt liquor.

In addition to Clix Malt Liquor, the Grand Valley Brewing Company created a stout beer using the same process.