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Lightning Ionizer Lager

Lightning Ionizer Lager

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A Malt Liquor brewed by
Lightning Brewery

Poway, California USA

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243.26/5.03.23/5.0Summer8.3%98.6Lager glass, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
As you might expect from a Lightning Beer, we made an American Lager that is unlike others. It is big, has a slight corn taste associated with the style, hefty hopping and a true laggered overall taste. For hops, we used American varieties and a selected strain of American Lager yeast for fermentation. This is a big beer: around 8.3% A.B.V., with a slight aroma of hops, a moderate amount of bittering hops to balance the maltiness of the beer, and a clean fermentation from the yeast and temperatures we use through the process.

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 pepsican (765), the beer wastelands of, Iowa, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20

May 7, 2008  
Thanks to kingG for this bottle. Thanks Joey! hazy gold pour with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet malt and heavy grain. Lots of sweetness in the flavor, some bread, corn, and a bit of alcohol. Grainy finish, good amount of carbonation.

 Hophead22 (258), Redlands, California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Sep 4, 2008  
22oz. bottle. Poured a medium yellow, with a nice white lasting head. Smells slightly lemony, and a little bready. Pretty easy going down, a little bitterness in there as well, not too shabby.


 biz82 (1325), austin, Texas, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 23, 2008  
Lightly hazy thick golden pour. Sweet and malty aroma with some mellow floral hops. Sweet and alcoholic with flowery hop flavor. Has some bread and yeast notes. Too sweet and alcoholic for my tastes. There was a reason I gave up malt liquor.


 beerguy101 (3488), Newark, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/514/20
Aug 22, 2008  
This strong lager/malt liquor pours a medium orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head, quickly dissipating with some decent lacing. The aroma is grainy and grassy, kind of sweet with some orange. A medium bodied post-prohibition style lager. The malts are fruity and sweet, with a lot of grass and grain. The hops are earthy and spicy. The 8.3 % alcohol is kind of noticeable. Nice balance. Good carbonation. Not a lot of the typical high gravity beer characteristics, except maybe for the sweetness. It’s a little too sweet for my taste. Mouthfeel is very full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet.


 bb (2168), Martinez, California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Aug 19, 2008  
Light golden-amber beer with a whitish head. Grassy, earthy, light malt aroma. Grassy, malt, light earth flavor. Medium bodied. Lingering sweet malt and grass.


 BrotherGrendel (186), San Diego (La Jolla), California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Aug 12, 2008  
On draft at O’Brien’s. Appearance is a clear light orange hue, thin layer of dissipating bubbles, minimal lacing. Smell is sweet bread malts, corn, a touch of darker fruits, grassy hops. Taste is sweet grainy malt with a underlying dark fruit presence, slight bitter grassy hops and lager yeast, finishes dry w/slight alcohol warming. Palate is full-bodied, creamy thick and chewy texture, moderate carbonation. Overall, a moderate, thickly sweet lager that almost feels Belgian-ish, even at 8%abv there is good balance and flavor going on here, very unique style of beer, I was pleasantly surprised!



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