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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1943.6/5.03.58/5.0Special6.8%96.8Dimpled 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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 drowland (1433), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Oct 20, 2009  
Tried a sample at Brewfest Tallahassee. Nice roastiness and a hint of coffee but still American hops present.


 jgb9348 (2515), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 16, 2009  
Deep rusty brown copper coloured body with a tan head and a ruby-tinted hue - nice. Aroma of potent alcohol, oak, vanilla and pit fruits at first, seemingly like a barley wine. Also some piney hops come out in the nose and perhaps a bit of yeast. Medium to Full-bodied; Mild malty flavour up front with a plentiful amount of oak and vanilla tucked in with figs and raisins along for the ride with some noticeable hops too. Aftertaste shows a bit of bitter malt, some hops and a dose of alcohol and sweetness (pit fruits) on the palate - nice! Overall, I wouldn’t really classify this as a brown, but if so, this is my favourite brown ale to date. However, as an american pale, it ranks above a lot of others due to the flavour complexity, the pit fruits and caramel sweetness and a good glow to the beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Norm’s in Vienna, Virginia on 02-October-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 16-October-2009.


 zvikar (436), Tel-Aviv, Israel
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/103/513/20
Oct 15, 2009  
@Freaktoberfest, pours amazing orange to red with a nice head, orange and grapefruit aroma with some marmalade sweetness, flavor leans towards the toffee and caramel with with a bitter hoppy grapefruit finish, medium body, nice.


 MoDog (927), Griffith, Indiana, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Oct 14, 2009  
12oz bottle served in a dimpled mug. Clear, light brown pour with a thick, spongey head of tan foam that slowly settled. Good lace. The aroma included chocolate, toasted nuts, pine, citrus, and also some rich caramel notes. Malty and hoppy. The flavor was a fight between the rich maltiness and the piney hops. I found the chocolate/nuttiness clashed with the pine/orange. Moderately bitter. The mouthfeel was slightly watery. Light carbonation. Not bad, but not really my thing.


 fluffy (229), Florida, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/53/102/55/20
Sep 30, 2009  
categorizing this as a brown ale is a mistake, as this is much more IPA than a brown. a nice hybrid of the styles, but seeing as im not a hophead this style is not my thing. id rather stick with a traditional brown ale. but if you are into the hoppy styles, give this a try.


 Svesse (2683), Hässelby, Sweden
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Sep 29, 2009  
(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Wallingatan, Stockholm) Reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty nose with notes of toffee, chocolate and toasty grain. Malty, fruity taste with toffee, chocolate and generous doses of citrussy hops in a bitter finish. More than medium body, balanced sweetness. Tasty citrussy hop character backed up by a solid caramel/chocolate malt body gives this beer a brilliant balance. Lovely beer!


 Ibrew2or3 (2840), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 28, 2009  
12oz bottle pours clear garnet with a teased up lasting light tan head. The aroma is full of that citrusy spicy near earthy cascade hoppiness to go along with some roasted malts and a touch of cherry fruit like esters. The taste stings first with orange peel and tangelo citrus hop bitterness rounded out with a tingle of spice and then sweeter with malts, a touch of toffee and hints of late addition to the boil hop flavor. Toward the finish the hops become more bitter along with the roast becoming a bit astringent creating a somewhat dry and refreshing finish. The citrus hop and spice hop bitterness linger for a while. Nice tasting brew. Listed here as a Brown. It is far from a brown.


 troopie (909), USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Sep 28, 2009  
Draught. Delicious but it’s hard to tell how to categorise this. Hoppy aroma like an IPA. Colour like a pub brown, say Newcastle Brown, flavour lekker, but like nothing else. Much roast, ’n bietjie hop. With a very hoppy lingering finish



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