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Lightning Ionizer Lager

Lightning Ionizer Lager - Malt Liquor

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Brewed by Lightning Brewery
Style: Malt Liquor

Poway, California USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
373.09/5.03.04/5.0Summer8.3%97Lager glass, Paper Bag, Shaker
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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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 daknole (2795), Plantation, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 8, 2009  
Orange/gold pour. White head. Aroma is a malt bom. Corn, light honey and caramel. Flavor is sweet and full of corn and grain. Ok.


 BMan1113VR (2752), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/514/20
Jul 27, 2009  
Bottle. Pours with a small white head over a hazy golden body with good lace. Aroma of corn, grass and spicy grain. Taste is alcohol, bready with sweetness, grassy notes and some crispness. Light bubbles and quite refreshing for the high ABV. Couldn’t really bring my self to drink a lot of this, had a nasty flavor when it warmed and the alcohol clashed.


 Papsoe (14613), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/57/103/514/20
Jul 25, 2009  
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of DrBill. Slightly hazy golden with a small, rough white head. Sweet and malty nose. Medium body, very solid and sweet malt base while I don’t really pick up any corn. Hardly any bitternes. Perfect if you love malts! 070709


 yespr (11613), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Jul 23, 2009  
22 fl oz bottle at the Stone Bistro, courtesy of Dr Bill. Pours and golden orange with a fully gone head. Vague metallic and cornish aroma. Sweet caramel malt flavoured. Light fruity touch. Very clean and malty flavoured into the far finish.


 Naven (862), Poway, California, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/512/20
Jul 12, 2009  
This stuff is hooch, plain and simple. Way way boozy. The flavor is actually pretty nice, but it’s just too damn big to be appreciated as an American lager. It’s a craft brewed malt liquor, plain and simple.


 theisti (1637), Leawood, Kansas, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/102/59/20
Jul 6, 2009  
22 oz bottle purchased at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, California. Pour is very slight haze golden yellow with a one inch white head that falls immediately. A bunch of carbonation bubbles. Aroma of sweet cherry, slight metallic and some light straw. Taste is sweet cherry vanilla, edgy dirty grassiness, turns really chemically in the middle. Palate is medium, cloying sweetness - really strange almost plastic thing going on. Big fusels. This was more like a malt liquor then other craft malt liquors I have had. Not a great thing.


 beerbill (1916), Laurel, New York, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/103/58/20
Jun 2, 2009  
22 oz. bottle. Pours a very hazy yellow gold with a white head. Unfortunately, that is this beer’s best quality. The aroma is overripe, bordering on rotting apples. The flavor is unfortunately perhaps a touch worse than the aroma with rotting apples and oranges with a metallic twang. Medium bitterness at the finish. Avoid.


 thewombat (112), Brooklyn, New York, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/102/511/20
May 31, 2009  
Smells sour and of fruit, pours hazy yellow. Tastes sour with a funky hop aftertaste. Its boozy with an alcohol burn. Its pretty weird, probably a bad bottle.



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