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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1913.6/5.03.58/5.0Special6.8%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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 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.

 bretupdegraff (181), Fishers, Indiana, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Dec 22, 2009  
I don’t like Brown Ales- but a India Brown Ale- this is pretty good. ARoma is strong roasty and spice / licorice but not too much. The flavor is smokey, roasty, licorice, hoppy, nutty but not too much, palate is perfect carbonation and oily- very nice.


 Toxygen (270), Sanford, Florida, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Dec 19, 2009  
(br-btl yw/pu-lbl)

lct-cpr, ribg-wh-hd, med-full-body, med-co2.
sweet-crml-malt, citrus-hops.
lots of flavor hops but bittering-hops are well balanced out, so it’s very hoppy but not overly bitter.


 esjaygee (1578), Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Dec 19, 2009  
Clear mahogany with a large beige head that leaves web lacing. Aroma of molasses, brown sugar, citrus, and caramel. Taste of citrus, pine, molasses with a moderate bitter finish. Mild nuttiness comes through but this is mostly an IPA with the addition of the evil dark sugars you can find in my pantry. I enjoyed this one, have to try and hunt down more.


 darn1207 (588), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Dec 9, 2009  
12oz bottle from ABC Liquor in Tallahassee. Amber brown pour with a finger off-white head and a ring of lacing. Big sweet toasted caramel malt and honey aroma with a heavy helping of floral hops. Nutty caramel taste with a roasted cocoa vibe - backed up again with the floral and pine bitterness that knocks down the typical sweet brown tastes fairly quickly. It’s a strange mashup for sure - but I don’t like the overly sweet brown sugars typical in the style - and I’m a big bitter ipa fan... so it works for me.


 BroSpud (612), , Massachusetts, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 3, 2009  
12oz bottle. Pours a no too dark brown. Seems to be closer to an IPA than a traditional brown not that there is anything wrong with that. Hops are the predominant feature here, again, not that there is anything wrong with that. Overall it’s a pretty good beer though not a spectacular one.


 smcolw (366), Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 29, 2009  
Light brown color; very light haze. Thick bubbled head that settles to a single layer of fine fizz. Leaves good spider web lace. Smell: Low level molasses and brown sugar without being overly sweet. Aroma of freshly baked bread. Low hop. Much drier and more bitter than the smell would suggest. Great hop finish. Smooth body with a lower than expected carbonation. Darker crystal malt flavor--toasted without any burnt tastes. The alcohol is present...mildly. A brown IPA--makes me want to have a second.


 demitriustown (702), Shelby Township, Michigan, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Nov 27, 2009  
12 oz bottle: Aroma is mostly the nice citrus of cascade hops, pine needles, and maybe some decernable malt backing, but it is really drowned out but the hop aroma. Appearance is a clear light brown with a rocky off white head that lingers around for quite a while. Taste is citrus and hop forward then some light carmel and malt characteristic creep up in the backend. Palate is quite carbonated on the tongue, and a lingering tanginess and malt texture in the aftertaste. Overall, More IPA than Brown Ale but a nice combination. CHeers!


 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.



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