Standard amber colour. Pours clean, with moderate carbonation. A fair degree of mustiness and cardboard - it fades away, but what remains is a rusty and stale cake flavour. Mouthfeel is dry and tannic (bitter like tree bark). Drinkable, with some pleasant soft toffee notes, but unremarkable. I bought mine as part of a job lot of Royal Wedding beers, but I have seen this either for sale or wanted, for between £10 and £30 - I think that's due to Godson's being a small brewery at the time of the Royal Wedding. Most of the Royal Wedding beers were by the big breweries like Fullers and Watneys - however, Godson's were, as Martyn Cornell puts it, "the first of London’s new generation micro-breweries".
Godson's were founded in 1977 in Clapton, London. They moved to the Black Horse Brewery, Old Ford, Bow in 1978 - ceasing brewing in 1982 just after they made the Bridal Ale. The company merged with Chudley in 1984 before being taken over by Gibbs Mew in 1986, and ceasing brewing completely in 1987.
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