All the Young Dudes
The Dandy Brewing Company

473ml can - a dry hopped sour ale, made with the Galaxy and Amarillo varietals. The name here makes me think of Blink-182, and that hilarious music video (remember those?) where they mocked boy bands.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy eggshell white head, which leaves some seriously random splattered lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, overripe pineapple and kiwi flesh, freshly spoiled (yeah, an oxymoron, but just think about it) milk, a mild earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some muddled tropical fruitiness, further acrid orange and red grapefruit citrus peel, a lessened sour lactose character, and more herbal, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is pretty tame in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of tart otherness taking things down a notch or so at this point in the game. It finishes trending dry, the hops and yeast nudging us in that general direction.

Overall - this is indeed a pleasant enough meeting of the IPA and kettle sour worlds, nice and balanced in its assault on my flavour nodes. Worth checking out, even though I no longer count myself amongst the titular population, as if that wasn't painfully clear by now.