Bishop's Tipple (Cask)
Wadworth and Company Ltd.

Transcribed from Notes of 30/10/2006, this was the 12th beer tasted at the Capitol, a JDW pub in Forest Hill, SE London, during the chain’s Full Moon Beer Festival. BTW, the abv. of the cask version is tuned at 5.5%, weaker than its 6.5%abv. bottled sister.

A: pale golden in colour, a lovely tight frothy head lasts for a good while, on top of low carbonation.
S: an assertive aroma of mildly floral yet also citric Styrian Goldings is underlined by a buttery note of diacetyl that at times smells a bit heavy, while an alcoholic edge constantly remains aside.
T: a rich taste of bitter-sweet biscuity pale maltiness upfront is backed by a flow of alcohol, almost dirty-cloth like yeasty touch, and floral+vegetation aroma of hops... Golding's citric edge develops alongside an intensifying and ever-lasting bitterness and dryish mouthfeel, where Styrian Golding's spicy edge provides slightly more complexity in the end than the foretaste manages to achieve.
M&D: med-plus bodied pale ale, with a suitable, soft carbonation to pair with the good body of hoppyness, although as a whole the flavour falls a bit simplistic. Somehow the bottled version is better than the cask one, to my best recollection?!