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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1923.6/5.03.58/5.0Special6.8%96.8Dimpled mug
Commercial Description:
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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 afireinside96 (839), Mountville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/58/104/515/20
Nov 22, 2009  
12oz bottle served in a stem glass. Pours murky brown with a thin khaki head. The nose is loaded with the signature aroma of cascade hops: grapefruit. There is also a decent amount of caramel aroma and an ever so slight hint of roastedness. The flavor is somewhere between a well hoppped pale ale, an IPA, and a robust porter. Grapefruit is immediately apparent then the caramel sweetness washes in. Bitterness comes and clears out the sweetness leaving a slightly bitter roasted coffee finish. This is quite an interesting beer. I hope it makes it into their regular rotation.


 TheCaptain (559), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 20, 2009  
Bottle - Flashback poured an off brown with foam off white head, some lacing. It gets a little bread, earthy, and yeasty. The texture is odd, light hops with a dry finish.


 DJMonarch (6878), Northwich, Cheshire, England
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 19, 2009  
On Tap at the Boulder Beer Company, Boulder 23/09/2009 Carbonation. White head. Malt and hop aromas. Golden coloured hoppy and malty with a little dryness in a crisp and bitter finish.


 agillespie81 (203), Denver, Colorado, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/518/20
Nov 17, 2009  
Aroma - very floral, citrus, touch of malt; Appearance - brown, thick creamy head, great lacing; Taste - malty front, hop flavor blends nicely in the back, long bitter finish; Palate - smooth mouthfeel, excellent body; Overall - extremely well built, balanced, great anniversary brew!


 obguthr (1057), Poquoson, Virginia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 7, 2009  
Smells of oak and marigold Clear brown, thin white head, good lacing. Awfully yeasty flavor of dirt and twigs, with an oaky fig finish. Even a bit musty, but it doesn’t really work that well for me. This is a dirty beer, in a good sense, but not as well executed as it could be. Not quite on par with Terrapin or DFH’s take on the style.


 kp (8500), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/510/20
Nov 7, 2009  

Name: Flashback IBA
Date: September 21, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Horse Brass, Portland
Appearance: hazy dark amber, creamy beige head, layers of drippy lace.
Aroma: sweet caramel and citrus aroma with light chocolate
Flavor: sweet caramel and chocolate flavor, nice balancing citrus, touch of butterscotch, light bitterness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4


 JK (2961), Richfield, Minnesota, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Nov 6, 2009  
Very well hopped for a brown ale, this is clearly an apa. Hop aorma with dry flavor of hops and malt. Brown color. Dry finish. Good.


beercamel (84), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/104/511/20
Nov 6, 2009  
Pours amber out of 12 oz. bottle. The smell is sweet and the flavor is malty not much hops. Thought there would be a huge cascade flavor. An okay brew not one to remember for the ages though.



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