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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1883.6/5.03.57/5.0Special6.8%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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 joeymacaroni (187), West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Aug 24, 2009  
pours brown with an off-white head. nice nose of caramel, coffee, and dark fruit notes mixed with a spicy hoppiness. Cascade hops come through nicely in the taste, ansd is well-complemented with the dark fruit, caramel/brown sugar maltiness, and the doughy, biscuity flavors.


 manuchampions (113), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 20, 2009  
12 oz Bottle. I do really appreciate when brewers try to paint outside the stlyle lines and this one is certainly a hybrid of both an IPA and a brown ale. The nose is toffee and caramel. The first taste is roasted malt followed by a lingering hop finish that is floral but not overly biting. Exquisite blend of styles.


 TeamTrappist (398), jericho, New York, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Aug 20, 2009  
Tap at Blind Tiger. This poured a dark copper with a thin white head. Interesting nose, first lots of malts, then a nice light floral hop note.Flavor had lots of roasted malts with a nice hop backbone, kind of the opposite of an IPA as the hops seem to balance the malt. Well balanced and refreshing.


 markwise (1187), 15 Minutes from Kuhnhenn in, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/513/20
Aug 19, 2009  
Thanks kiefdog for the share. Pours dark brown with a soapy off-white head. Nose is caramel, spice, pine hops, and some floral hops. Flavor is caramel, some earthy smokiness, malt, and some pine hops. Light to medium bodied, with a slightly bitter finish. Interesting brown.


 italianjohn (373), Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 19, 2009  
Nice brown pour off white head lacing floral aroma slight pine, roasted malts .... caramel and coffee with a nice floral hop finish enjoyable and a good mix dry bitter finish medium body a solid balanced brew


 phaleslu (535), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 18, 2009  
Draft pint from Fries Cafe in Cincinnati. I enjoyed the first few sips of this one but it lost its charm relatively quickly. Pours dark brown with frothy head that thins quickly but laces the glass. Aroma was relatively weak, and I picked up on malt, hops, some floral notes, and not much else. The flavor was primarily of bitter hops, with malt and alcohol. Fair amount of carbonation and medium body. The bitterness drowned out any other tasting notes for me, and that’s how it finished.


 slang (402), Columbia, South Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/103/516/20
Aug 18, 2009  
bottled. Amber brown ale w/ a slight nose of hops but mostly malts. Smooth mouthfeel, malty w/ astringent alcohol & some hops. It’s good but if you like this IBA then you have to try Terrapin’s.


 kiefdog (1624), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Aug 18, 2009  
12oz bottle from Total Wine (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally hazy dark brown with one finger creamy head that settles slowly. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, floral hoppiness, honey, light citrus, honey, wheat. Flavor is sweet and malty with notes of caramel, honey, wheat, nuts, light floral hoppiness and spice. Generally medium body with a malty and slightly bitter finish.



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