This entry-level example from Stevens Point in Wisconsin is typically full of fig, dark berry, fruit biscuit and caramelised sugar flavours which, at the beer's edges, give way to a degree of dank mustiness.
But more and more now know that it actually refers to mustiness or cheesiness in the wine, with overtones of vegetable rot or old socks, caused by a taint which can be traced to 2,4,6-trichloroanisole.
Roger's lamb was disappointingly short on taste, and the accompanying caraway spatzle released a back-of-the-spice-drawer mustiness that unbalanced the dish.
In terse, impressively researched chapters, Echenoz follows the lives of five friends in the trenches, and ruminates on the curious realities of warfare: the throngs of left-behind animals, the mustiness of open air at the front, the mind-numbing slog of endless marching.
He emphasizes the mustiness of men buried in libraries, scouring ancient texts in their arcane preoccupation, yet, in a shrewd dramatic turn, he doesn't ridicule the amount of blood that gets spilled in such pursuits.
A mustiness she had smelled before, when her male classmates were close by.
She was overcome by the mustiness of the shop, the incense that seemed a mingling of perfume and cow shit, the imploring shahtoosh seller, and, within earshot, the yells of the men at the shrine.
He had a clean smell to him, starchy with a touch of liniment, and a closeted mustiness I notice now on my own clothes.
I can smell the sweet mustiness within.
In the past couple of seasons Lyrics & Lyricists, under the aegis of its artistic director, Deborah Grace Winer, has made considerable progress in shucking off a deadly aura of staid historical mustiness.
It is a relief to say (especially given that this production is reportedly Broadway bound) that they approach this lumberingly plotted 1934 melodrama of two schoolteachers accused of lesbianism with an intensity that almost burns away the play's straight-from-the-attic mustiness.
