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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1873.6/5.03.57/5.0Special6.8%96.7Dimpled mug
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Flashback Anniversary Ale is an India Brown Ale with 6.8% ABV. This is the first beer we’ve made here that uses one single hop variety (Cascade) in the recipe in five separate additions. The fresh Cascade hop aroma and flavor is perfectly balanced with the dark roasted grains, making Flashback a very unique beer. We’re calling it an India Brown Ale to help illustrate its flavor to the consumer. It’s hoppy like an IPA but dark and roasty like a Brown Ale. Put them together and voila! Flashback at its finest!

We at Boulder Beer Company are SO excited to announce the release of our 30th Anniversary commemorative beer...Flashback Anniversary Ale! Flashback will be available in 4/6/12oz cases, 15.5 gallon kegs and 5.16 gallon kegs. It will be available to ship beginning Monday, May 4th and will be available through September.

Paying homage to our roots and celebrating our milestone 30th Anniversary, we give you Flashback Anniversary Ale, an India Brown Ale single-hopped with five additions of Cascade hops. Citrusy with a prominent hop aroma, Flashback finishes clean, crisp and dry, with dark roasted flavors from the biscuit and chocolate malts perfectly complimenting the bountiful Cascades.

Flash back to 1979 and you’ll find two professors at the University of Colorado in Boulder longing for the full-flavored tastes of the British ales they had grown to love while traveling overseas. Testing the entrepreneurial waters with a little project called a microbrewery, they began brewing and selling a few of their own. There begins the tale of Boulder Beer Company, Colorado’s First Microbrewery. From the original Bitter, Porter and Stout recipes that founded our brewery to our exciting new releases, Boulder Beer continues to uphold our tradition of innovation in brewing.

Flashback Anniversary Ale is the 9th Release in our Looking Glass Series of specialty beers. Discover all of our award-winning beers at BoulderBeer.com.
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 malrubius (995), Valley Stream, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/515/20
Jul 9, 2009  
12 ounce bottle in tulip. Brown with lasting dense head and lace. Caramel hop brown sugar maple syrup and dark fruit aroma. Mild caramel chocolate with nuts mild dark fruit mild fresh hop and clean finish. Incredible mouthfeel for an American craft brew. A pleasant surprise.


 hopscotch (5483), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
Jul 9, 2009  
Bottle… Pours a dark, clear crimson with a mid-sized, fluffy, off-white head. Great retention. Chocolaty nose with plenty of Cascade hop goodness thrown in. Full-bodied with a silky mouthfeel and soft carbonation. The flavor offers very little residual sugar, even when warmed to room temperature, but charcoal bitterness abounds – along with other carbonic, tannic, and unsweetened chocolate essences. The finish is lengthy, bitter and fairly dry.


 17thfloor (1482), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jul 9, 2009  
#5 of 5 in my Brown Ale tasting. 12oz bottle. Pours a darker root-beer brown with a slight glowing red hue and a medium frothy off-white head. Aroma is quite hoppy, resin and pine overtop sweeter malt. I actually like the flavor much better than when it first hit shelfs about a month or two ago, mellowed a bit while the hops are still quite fresh. Flavor is generous bitter piney hops with some citrus over light chocolate and brown sugar malty base. Nicely balanced bitterness and sweetness. The hops were fairly perfumy and floral when totally fresh and that was quite distracting, that seems to have died away as the hops faded and the malt settled. Nice hoppy chocolately bitter aftertaste. Medium bodied with lots of softer fluffy sudsy carbonation, not sticky or syrupy. With a score of 3.5 this is the winner... not that there was really any competition from the other beers.


 riversideAK (2731), Shoreline, Washington, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jul 8, 2009  
Aroma is of earthy roasted notes, light chocolate sweetness, nuts, and floral/citrus hop bitterness. Pours brown with a thin head and some nice lace. Flavors of toasted and roasted malts, chocolate, toffee, and a good dose of floral and earthy hops in the finish. Light citrus. Good dryness.


 roder60 (1023), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/516/20
Jul 8, 2009  
Pours a clear medium purple brown color with nice froathy layer of offwhite head. Aroma is toffee, brown sugar, a bit of rumminess, and nice citrus hop presence. Flavor nice sweet, heavier mouthfeel, almost chocolate-caramel, with perfect amount of resiney dry hop finish. Very good beer.


 TomDecapolis (3173), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 7, 2009  
Tap at CAH. Pours a deep brown with amber notes and a creamy/foamy off white almost tan that left great lacing. Aroma of floral and citrus notes, toasted malt, light chocolate, toffee and nuts. Flavor of the same. Nice Cascade hoppy brown!


 jcwattsrugger (5342), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/514/20
Jul 5, 2009  
12oz bottle–pours a foamy rich tan head that laces and dark copper color. Aroma is medium malt-toffee/chocolate, nutty, earthy, seocndry pine/spice/citrus hops. Taste is medium/dark malt-chocolate, earthy then the herbal hops bite come through. An English character. Medium body. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for sharing.


 stchloe (492), Portland, Oregon, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/56/104/516/20
Jul 4, 2009  
I like brown ales, and this is a great combination of IPA styles. The cascade hops are well down and the focus is worth it. The dark malt makes a nice full body. Filling.



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