Bewitched
Hampshire Brewery Ltd

Tried this beer by a pint at Wetherspoon's pub, Penderel's Oak nr. Holborn tube station in central London. It's one of the "festival beers" during the chain's Autumn Beerfestival. In this season of Holloween and Guy Fawkes' Bon Fire Night, quite a many seasonal beers are all after silly names relating to witches, goasts, monsters, gunpowder, etc. and this one is no exception, apart from being more tasty and different actually~~

A: pours a dark amber hue, with slight haze, served at ideal temperature; the head is white and thin, with very fine froth on the top, leaving extremely subtle and tight lace around the glass~~
S: deeply honeyish and fruity, preserved figs or fig jam, treacle, sweetish bubble-gum, hints of palm-sugar and coconut cream, and even strawberry syrup(?!)... perhaps my imagination goes too wild--though the fruity and malty aroma is overall quite complex, it gears towards the sweet side, thus quite overpowering.
T: most distinctive taste for an English bitter or whatever style it is... toffee, rock-sugar, coconut cream, lime leaves, all mixed together, bringing up a strange, date-candy like exotic sweetness balancing the most unusual blend of hoppyness which is slightly cascade-like but coming with an incredible, overwhelming bitterness more like the aftertaste of a cup of Chinese root-herb medicine-soup... extremely lingering and satisfyingly bitter in the end. Later I learned that this beer is brewed with Cascade and formidible Challenger hops, hence the intense bitterness I think.
M: "ultra-smooth" is the word for the texture, as oats are used in the "witches' cauldron", according to the brewery's website.
D: pretty unusual and interestingbeer this is--with the incredible bitterness running deep and the exotic and complex taste at the front, it makes a pleasant drink even to play with~~