Central Waters Kosmyk Charlies Y2K Catastrophe Ale
Aged one year in our cellars, this delightfully fruity treat is smooth enough to help you slide over the worst Y2K glitch. As you enter the 2nd millenium, take the time to enjoy Kosmyc Charlie's. Seasonal November - February.
3.8
260 reviews
Amherst, United States
Community reviews
A great barley wine. Aromas and flavors mimic each other. Bread, caramel, grains, dried fruit, a nice long lasting hoppy finish. This is really delicious.
Bottle. Pour is dark orange/brown with a small off-white head. Aroma and flavor of burnt caramel, wood, darker fruits, sweet malt, dried fruit, and booze. Finish is sweet and boozy with a slight hop kick.
> Imperial red ale type of hoppy, minty barleywine
[ Bottle ][ 12oz ][ motorheadtodd ][ Trade ][ Hotel Room Garbage Glass ][ 8.16.14 ]
>> Clear red pour, large rocky tan foam. Nose is cherry, minty, orange potpourri. Taste is chocolate and quite kettle hoppy, imperial red ale type. Very bitter...a piney East Coast DIPA turned barleywine. Nice enough.
Pour is a hazy dark chestnut with a very tight tan head. Nose is heavy caramel malt and pungent crystal malt with a fair bit of cardboard like oxidation. Taste follows suit, heavy dry caramel, very sticky, a bit of crystal malt and a good bit of cardboard oxidation in back with a hint of green apple skin. Full bodied and chewy, prickly feel and well carbonated.
Bottle vintage 2013 on the side recently delivered to my beer store. Pour has a brown color and a thin coating of tan head. Aroma has sweet malt, aged hops, resins, and caramel. Mouth feel is medium and the carbonation a bit low. Flavor again has substantial malt, caramel sweetness, aged hops, light bitterness, and a touch of pine. This is good as far as aged barley wine goes but why age it at the brewery for a year before releasing it?
Reviewed from notes. Rcvd in trade.
This was poured into a chalice.
The appearance was a nice looking dark brown to black color with half finger-ed off white foamy head that dissipated within less than a minute. There was some nice light lacing sticking finely to the glass.
The smell had a nice blend of sweet and roasty caramels, toffee, chocolates, light breadiness, and coffee beans combining wonderfully.
The taste took those flavors and combined them extremely well.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium to heavy on the body (of course when I had this, it was only two months old). Yup, sure was a sipper -no doubt about that.
Overall, this was an extremely wonderful Barleywine well worth my time in having on a cold Alaskan night.
12oz 2012 bottle in a tulip. Pours deep brown with a beige head. Aroma of caramel and toffee and light nuttiness, some light bitter notes, and dough and grains. Flavor the same. Smoother texture. A decent barley wine, but not as good as the BA version.
Medium brown in color, very light brown head. Lots of caramel, some dates, hints of brown sugar and honey. This is pretty decent overall.
Tried a glass of the Y2K and a glass of the BBBW at the brewery. Both are great. I think I prefer the BBBW version more, but the regular Y2K is much easier to drink and you notice the sweetness more. Very sweet bread like aroma. Taste is very smooth, lots of sweetness, some caramel notes, some fruit. Overall, a great beer.
For being 10%, this one is smooth and sneaky. Nice amber color on this, malty and roasty. Caramel, light fruit, and a hint of fig come through on this one.
Drank with Thijs at easter evening. Looks and smells really good. Nice golden brown beer with yellow foam. Carbonation is not so present in the taste, which starts nice and sweet, rich, but ends with an unpleasant, slightly weird bitterness.
Dark amber pour with a tan head. Aroma is sweet malt, caramel, light fruit. Taste is light fruit, alcohol, caramel, little creamy. I listed to Grateful Dead’s Cosmic Charlie as I drank this- no influence on the rating just 2 enjoyable pleasures shared.
12oz bottle pours like an Irish Red with a medium off white head. Aromas of toffee, fruit, and malt. Flavor is malt heavy with alcohol notes. Not bad.
Bottle, thanks Jimmy! Clear chestnut, small beige head, nice lacing. Aroma is dark sugars, toffee, pine. Flavor is medium sweet, fairly bitter, some vanilla. Medium body, fairly harsh finish, some astringence.
Sampled at the Rapids Liquor Tasting. Pours dark brown with a quickly fading head - great for the style. Aroma is dark fruits. Taste is juicy dark fruits, and tart which balances the typically heavy malts. Very nice.
A- Pours a deep brown hue with a nice, light brown head that fades fairly quickly.
S- Lots of dark fruits, raisin, fig, brown sugar. Very similar to the BA version.
T- Same raisin, fig and huge brown sugar notes as the nose. Finish is a little hot with some hop bite. Well balanced.
M- Thick with medium carbonation.
D- This is definitely a solid, drinkable barleywine. The BA version takes it to another level but I loved this one as well.
Bomber pours deep amber with a off white head. Aroma of caramel malts, toffee, dried fruit and alcohol. Taste is malts, toffee, and a hint of alcohol.
At a bottle sharing. Pours a cloudy reddish brown with a small tan head. Aroma of malt, fruit, and caramel. Taste is sweet malt, dark fruit, caramel, spice, and alcohol. Nice.
Pours a deep garnet color with a dense, light tan/cream head that fades down to a thin film pretty quickly. Aroma has a pleasant fruity (plum, raisin, light apple, hint of orange) with a strong caramel malt sweetness and light toasted malt notes at the finish. Flavor has some light raisin up front with a touch of anise and light grassy bitterness which transitions to a complimenting sweetness of caramel malt and a touch of toasted malt. Body is perfect with a slightly oily feeling, very low carbonation and a hefty amount of residual sugars to hold aloft the pronounced flavors of this brew. Overall a very good offering by Central Waters. A very well done example of the barley wine style.
Aroma is strong caramel, toffee, fruit, malts and a hint of alcohol. The flavor is caramel, malts, toffee, fruit, mild/medium nuttiness, a very thick body and a dry and bitter/slightly sour finish.
2013 vintage. Pours a nice ruby dark amber. Small wispy tan head, fairly lasting with lace. Bold malty, hoppy aroma. Sweet. Fruity. Dried/overripe fruit, caramel, toffee, sorta candied, resiny hops. Full body. Creamy. Hoppy, resin finish. Enough sweetness to balance. No alcohol to speak of until some light booze towards the end.. Wish the flavor matched complexity and overall character of the aroma. Good but doesn’t completely come together.
Aroma is sweet and sugary, sort of like rock candy or something of that sort. Dried fruit, kind of like a date, caramel, malty and hoppy.
Taste is more dark fruit, sweet/sugar, malty.
12 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark cloudy mahogany / amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out caramel, dark fruits, and candied sugar. Flavour is intensely sweet and boozy, with loads of rich caramel, lots of candied sugar, and all of the 10% (and then some) showing. Lots of residual sweetness and loads of alcohol heat. Not refined or elegant in any way - I have no idea how this has such high ratings. Drinkable in very small portions, but way too sweet for me, and too boozy.
bread, caramel, hay, cereal, toast, grass, dough, barnyard, earthy, alcohol, woody, amber, red, hazy, cloudy, frothy. solid barleywine, big malt flavor and sweetness, touch of alcohol adding to the sweetness. Excellent food beer for those big hardy dishes, really nice.
12oz (2012) bottle thanks to demmbonz
Pours slightly hazy dark amber with a medium sized beige head and some lacing. Aroma is malty, caramel, woody and some hot alcohols. Taste is toasted malts, caramel, dusty, woody with bitter pine finish and hot alcohols, dry
A decent barleywine
Bottle 12fl.oz.
Unclear medium orange amber colour with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dried fruit, wood, caramel, moderate hoppy. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, BW alike, alcohol, hop bitter, sweet fruit, wood - oak, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20131111]
Hazy dark orange with a small offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, wood, dark fruits, light alcohol. Flavor is rich malty, caramel, wood, dark fruits, brown sugar. light booze. Full body, soft carbonation, light warming alcoholic finish. 111113
Clear reddish amber with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, heavy caramel, dried fruit and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. 111113
Bottle. Hazy dark amber with small tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, oak, dark fruits and toffee. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, medium sweet, oak, wood, dark fruits, little toffee, hop, little bitter with notes of alcohol.
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are sweet fruits, burnt caramel, warming alcohol, malt and hops. Sweet finish.