County Room beers

Somerset 562-7
v Yorkshire 306-9
close on Day 3

Tuesday 17 May 2016

County Championship Division 1

Played at Taunton

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We've done a County Room day in the Colin Atkinson Pavilion. Another ground. Another brewery. St Austell have the franchise down here in Taunton. And, not a bad effort all round.

Exmoor Ale at 3.8% had already been and gone on cask on Days 1/2. That left me with;

St Austell, Spring Fever on cask at 4.1%.
St Austell, Tribute (natch) on cask at 4.2%.

And, beer of the day. A new one on me. St Austell, Mena Dhu (Stout) on keg at 4.5%. Served in a branded, handled glass. Black. Lots of liquorice. Giving way to toasted wholemeal. Some bitterness in the finish. Maybe the liquorice comes again. All in all, surprised me a bit.

(There was also St Austell, Korev, craft lager on keg).

Looked brainless at times from Yorkshire out there. Epitomised by Rashid run out on nought after 3 balls. To make it 232-6. Only one of THREE wickets to fall on 232. We've gone from 226-4 to to 237-9. Difficult to see where you can go with that. Well. We went to 306-9 at the close (Patterson, Brooks). Pushing us past the points at 250 & 300. Those last two survived 18.4 Overs.

Rhodes & Ballance looked rooted. Woeful footwork. Hodd’s gone clean bowled in 3. Got to be some shaping up somewhere. The Test wallahs are off. The bowling wallahs are injured. Shape up.

Something to do to save it the morrow.

318/665