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Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale

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1953.61/5.03.58/5.0Special6.8%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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 Magjayran (1379), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20

Jun 5, 2009  
Brown and clear with a nice sized head. Odd combo of citrusy hops and roasted malts in the aroma. Bitter and hoppy with loads of caramel and chocolate at the finish.

 jake65 (1760), Williston, North Dakota, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Jan 6, 2010  
Bottle: Beautiful amber pour with a finger of creamy tan head. Rich aroma is ripe with citrus hops, caramel, toffee, and candied sugar. Kind of vinous; it has that aged barleywine feel. First sip is a huge mouthful of citrus and floral hops, yet not any lingering bitterness. More caramel, toffee, and sugary aged vinous notes. A little later in the glass I notice a chocolate presence and even some earthy notes. Still, the lingering taste is sweet aged citrus hops. Delightful!


 lithy (1860), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Dec 29, 2009  
Copper red, beige head. Aroma is spicy, woody, malty, nutty, sweet. Taste is sweet ,nutty, spicy, piney, woody hops.


ders0 (21), , Minnesota, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/102/517/20
Dec 27, 2009  
Poured pretty dark. Nice hoppy nose and nice bitter taste. Finishes nicely as well. Pretty impressed with this beer. Probably the best beer I got in the sampler 12 pack.


 arminjewell (229), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/512/20
Dec 23, 2009  
I am a big IBA fan, and this one is a decent one. Prominent hop nose and chocolate malt aroma gives rise to a nice chocolate/bready malt taste that is surprisingly lacking in hoppiness, with little to no bitterness. Has the makings of a really good brew, but lacks in certain areas.


 bretupdegraff (183), 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 (413), 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 (1600), 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 (668), 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.



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