Cosmic Dancer
The Dandy Brewing Company

473ml can - a session IPA, made with the Mosaic, Azacca, and Enigma hop varietals. Why do I have Elton John percolating in the dark recesses of my mind?

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and slightly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly and surely subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a strong hard water flintiness, some indistinct stone fruit, and understated leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, a faint tropical fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more earthy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes trending dry, the hops chairing the lingering after-party.

Overall - this comes across as a well-rendered version of the style, nice and hoppy, with a low attendant bitterness. Crisp, easy to put back, and worthy of its celestial moniker, for lack of a better send-off.