Boulder Beer Flashback Anniversary Ale
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.
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.
3.5
463 reviews
Boulder, United States
Community reviews
Bottle poured a clear brown hue w/ a medium creamy head and sticky lacing. Mild hop aroma. Initial flavor is mild sweet w/ a bold bitter finish. Tastes are grass, toast, and lime. Medium bodied, creamy mouthfeel, and average carbonation.
Clear amber brown in color... Aroma of citrus hops, brown malts... Hop aroma fairly prevalent... Flavor is really nice, light and crisp body with citrus hops highlighted as the malts are fairly mild, mouthfeel is creamy from the nitro I had it on... Finish is perfect, just a hint of bitterness... Great beer
From memory, brown pour, somewhat sweet, hoppy robust brown ale, medium body, some pine and nuts, unique idea
Bottle. Pours clear brown with red/ orange hues, off white head. Smells very malty and caramel. Has a very nice sweet maltiness to it, lots of caramel, sweet backbone with a nice hop profile up-front. Really enjoyable.
Carmel and toasty aroma. Taste is rich and cocoa flavor but unusually hoppy for a brown ale. Good beer. Had this on draft at boulder beer in Denver airport.
A deep reddish brown hued body poured out of the bottle. Topped with a sticky long lasting yellowish khaki head. A sweet caramel candy smell is dominant with bits of citrus and pine resin. There is also some biscuit dough. This tastes like burnt biscuits topped off with pine resin. The finish is like licking an ashtray. Way too over the top with the piney hops that have little to balance.
On tap at the "taphouse" at dia. Hoppy and piney at first, some nutty malt character but more like an ipa than a brown ale. Not bad, but not a lot going on.
Gravity cask at GBBF 2013, Session 1 - London. Pours clear, golden-brown with a light, white film for a head. The nose has toasty bread and light citrus. Medium sweet flavour with simple bread, faint tang and dried orange. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, more bread, faint bitter earth. OK.
Bottle pours translucent dark ruby brown with a nice tan head. Aroma of chocolate and roast with hoppy citrus. Solid bitterness to back the roast malt flavours. Finish stays bitter.
Very tasty beer. Light brown colour, with a thick head which clears a bit too soon. A little fizz.
Bottle. Reddish brown with cream colored head. Aroma is roasted malt and nuttiness. Taste is caramel and coffee and reappeared malt, nuttiness and mineral finish. Tasty.
Bottle into glass..clear brown pour with white head... hoppy brown...pretty good ..starting to like this brewery
12 oz bottle from Evergreen Discount Liquors. Brownish amber and clear with a tan head. Aroma and flavor of caramel, chocolate, light roast, bittersweet, light citrus hops. Medium body with little carbonation and a dry finish. It tasted a little dated, I remember liking it more last time I had it.
Bottle from Total beverage Westminster. Pours brown with a thin brown head. Leaves some lacing in the glass. Has a bit of nuttiness on the nose. A bit of toffee on the tongue. Fishes clean. Solid.
From 12 oz bottle into St Bernardus chalice.
Amber brown color with small head and lace.
Aroma of dark roasted malts and straw hops.
Moderate carbonation and mouthfeel.
Flavors of burnt malts, dark roasted malts, carob, grapefruit hops, chalk. Overall rich and bold with some bitter root like notes.
Cask gravity at GBBF 2013. It pours clear brown with a small white head. The nose is wood, earth, light sweetness, leather and caramel. The taste is caramel, wood, leather, light bitterness, twig, earth, residual sweetness, touch of resin, biscuit and light alcohol. Medium body and fine carbonation. OK hoppy brown ale.
October 2010. Sampled at the brewery. Redbrown to copper color with a white head. Very hoppy for a brown ale, which is a plus in my book. Goes well with the caramel, malt and nutty aromas.
Cask at gbbf 2013. Nose is tobacco and twigs. Slight hazed chestnut brown no head to speak of. Flavour is malt farwors nutty caramel. Slight warming rum. Wood. Good stuff. Cheers Leighton.
Pours a dark copper with very little head. Really nice grassy grapefruit aroma. Some malty sweetness is balanced by the hops in the middle but a soft roasted quality exists in the finish. Just enough resin lays on the tongue at the end.
Brown lightly transparent appearance with a big white head. Light malted scents. IT has a thin body a malted mellow balance that fades quick. This was on nitro tap so it added a nice creaminess to the texture.
In short: A sweet brown ale. Meh.
How: Nitro-tap at Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Burlington VT.
The look: Clear copped body by a medium beige head.
In long: The very discreet nose only offers mild toasted cereals notes with distant nuttiness. In mouth the beer offers a standard mouthfeel with medium body and medium carbonation. Taste has a solid malt backbone, strong toastiness, peanut shells, baguette crust, caramel. Shy leafy hops. This beer is described as a hoppy brown ale but to me this was pretty much the opposite, this is a brown ale on the sweet side of the style. This was pretty much the exact opposite of what I was hoping it would be, like when I thought my wife wrote me a long love letter and after reading the first paragraph I googled the meaning of “irreconcilable differences” and realized it really wasn’t a long love letter.
Draft: Poured a brown color with an off white head. Aroma is toasted malts and nuts. Taste is nice hops mixed with nutty roasted malts.
Had a taste of this on tap from Alexandrias in Findlay on nitro. Tasty, if a little lightweight from the nitro.
Pours a clear, dark brown with a medium mocha head. It has a mostly roast aroma with a hint of citrus. The taste is medium on both bitter and sweet. It has a medium to full body with a light, thin texture. This is a very enjoyable beer and it wouldn’t mind grabbing one should I find it available at a bar.
Pours a nice clear cinnamon brown with a thick and rather persistent fluffy wheat head. Malty aroma has hints of cloves and caramel and a snip of yeast. Malty flavor has firm notes of hay, cloves, caramel and resin, plus nutty and earthy hints. Texture is smooth and a little thin but fairly fizzy, leaving a rather hoppy finish. May this give you pleasant flashbacks.
Nitro draft at the Khyber. Dark orange brown with a huge off-white head. Nice lacing. Spicy brown ale. Chai tea. Big Cascade hop flavors. Tobacco. Dry leaves. Medium-full body.
Draft at Old Chicago. Pours a medium brown color with a thick creamy that fades very slowly. Looks like a nitro beer but I was told it’s not. Aroma is creamy with some light caramel malt and floral hops. Taste is very creamy, I can’t believe this is not a nitro beer. Very light roast, light caramel and light flowers. The creaminess kinda take over this beer. Thick body too.
On tap in a lager glass. Pours light brown with a lacy, off white head. Aroma of light caramel malts with a nice floral and lightly citrus hops. Flavor the same. Average texture. A good beer for the style with a nice, hoppy finish.
Brown IPA… its amber and it has a minimal off-white head so I guess you could call this a brown IPA, but why? At this point there are 2 types of brown ales: traditional and experimental. The first can fall into a good or boring category the experimental can be gross or good. This is experimental, or just creative labeling, and boring, or depending on semantics a hoppy brown. It is not a bad beer just lacking the exuberance the label foretold.
A - Clear copper amber color. 1 finger off-white head that forma a thick collar. Strips of doily patterned lacing at the top of the glass.
S - Caramel malt, fruity citrus hops, toffee, bready.
T - Lightly roasted grain, chalky bitterness, orange peel, cherries, caramel, toffee, rye bread. The bitterness is spicy and carries through the finish. Hints of tea-like tannins.
M - Light carbonation, full bodied.
The color seems a little light for an American Black Ale. I guess this style name has changed from Black IPA. A good tasting beer though. Lots of toffee, a very malt forward beer.
Serving type: bottle
01-18-2011