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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1903.6/5.03.58/5.0Special6.8%96.9Dimpled 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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 WVHouseofBeer (389), Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Sep 21, 2009    Updated: Sep 22, 2009
This Boulder Anniversary Ale was made for a special occasion...luckily you don’t have to wait for one to drink it. A strong yet wonderfully delicate Cascade hop punch balances the even better malt additions that make this is a true IBA.


 thehurt01 (205), Denver, Colorado, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/513/20
Sep 19, 2009  
12 oz bottle. the beer poured a clear brown body with a foam cream head. The smell is hops and candie sweetness. Taste is of a more bitter flavor and lingering taste. good carbonation. 6pk


 thornecb (1798), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 18, 2009  
Pours deep mahogany into a shaker. Fluffy brown head with good retention leaves sheet lacing as it slowly recedes. Dark caramel and grapefruit aromas. Crisp with upfront chocolate and a lasting grapefruit and resin finish.


jtheye (12), Roeland Park, Kansas, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20
Sep 18, 2009  
Nice cross between a porter (I guess they say brown) and an IPA. Will buy again ... I hope it becomes a permanent addition to their line.


 brewski519 (422), Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 17, 2009  
12 oz bottle - pours brown with a thin tan head and decent lacing. Aroma of hops, caramel, citrus, chocolate - wow, lots going on! And this is confirmed with the first sip. At first this comes across as a brown ale with the malt, chocolate and nuts - then all of a sudden it tastes like an IPA with the hops and citrus. This is a great hybrid and will thoroughly enjoy each one of the 6 in my fridge.


 dionysus (119), Arizona, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 15, 2009  
Bottle pours dark amber in color with a khaki colored head. Aroma is chocolate, grapefruit, brown sugar and nuts. Flavor shows the same but also has a bready quality to it. Starts sweet up front but follows through with an earthy bitter finish. Not as aggressive as you’d expect for an anniversary, but i’ll definately drink another.


tennessejed420 (94), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Sep 12, 2009  
12 oz. bottle. Toffee roasted floral hop aroma. Pours deep amber / brown with good tan head. Tastes like caramel malts with hop afterbite. One of my favorite beer styles, this one does it justice.


 JPDIPSO (4926), Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Sep 9, 2009  
Umber color with a stable moderate really old paper colored head. A toasted grapefruit aroma; meaning a half grapefruit, covered with sugar and then toasted to leave a caramelized sugar coating. A bit earthy but I’m starting to understand my lack of love for ambers and browns. I just am not a big fan of the earthy and roasted scents typically emanating from it. Big flavors. Toasted and roasted malts form the base for a standard brown ale. This is followed by a big dose of grapefruit, both rudy red and bitter white. The flavors don’t always work for me. I start to enjoy it more in the finish and linger, as the bitterness subsides and the roasted and toasted malt come back a bit clean than earlier. IBA seems to work.



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