Unusually laced with wheat malt, which gives it a thicker mouthfeel and a notably earthy, grainy aspect, this hits you with a triple whammy of big, sweet, juicy caramelised malts; then unsweetened grapefruit, pepper and lemon notes; and finally a lingering bitterness that rolls on and on.
Do not disturb it too much or it will go grainy.
Sir Wilson Whineray is best remembered by rugby union followers in Britain for a try that was replayed in grainy monochrome on many a winter's afternoon on Grandstand.
Thoroughly pureed chestnuts add a subtle sweet flavour and a grainy texture, similar to ground almonds.
Things develop differently here," he says, surrounded by grainy colour photographs of the victims of the camp; a museum, part funded by the local assembly, will open at the port next month.
In spring 2016 things look much the same: another coalition government has been installed; the spending cuts first outlined at the beginning of the decade have begun again; and somewhere on the continent a newspaper is publishing grainy close-ups of Kate Middleton's elbow.
Recently, I watched a decades-old grainy video of Winona Ryder discussing the biggest sexually transmitted problem of all, Aids.
Present-day interviews in which Mr Larson and his colleagues convey the thrill of that original discovery are intermingled with grainy camcorder footage of the excavations themselves, in which the fossil-hunters laugh and joke excitedly, looking oddly amateur as they pick away at rocks in their jeans and polo shirts.
It is all to easy to see films showing the Nazi concentration camps, while even still pictures of the Gulag are scarce and grainy.
On the "Egypt" country page, there are grainy images showing torture in a prison.For now at least, expense and technological problems make it hard to organise any international mobile-based protest.
White flyers with black lettering and grainy photos of uniformed men, now dead, are appearing ever more frequently on village walls.
