Thursday 12 May 2022

YCCC, A New Low

Lancashire 288 for 3 
v Yorkshire 
County Championship Division 1 
Close on Day One 
Thursday 12 May 2022 
Played at Headingley 

Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A NEW LOW. Look I'll take all the shit that can be thrown at me about - does it really matter - can't you enjoy yourself without drinking beer - there's far more important things that need doing. Understood. But, I Blog about Cricket & Beer.

If you're providing "catering". And if that includes selling beer. Then, that's low hanging fruit. That should be so easy to get right. County Cricket Clubs which have an inclusive, you can enjoy yourself here, this is your place - feel, will succeed in attracting & retaining fans & Members. And, I'm not talking about the unsustainable competitive beer drinking that surrounds International & T20 cricket. I'm talking about normal, jolly, couple of pints, hail fellow well met, what you having, can I get you one, adult drinking.

So. The Headingley Long Room. Decent sized bar front. Few Cask handpulls. Few Keg fonts. Designer Gins, etc behind the bar. Rows of your Red Wines. And ranks of your Whites & Fizz in the fridge. Glasses of every shape and size. Pints. Halves. Tumblers. Wine stems. The lot. All waiting to be brimmed with booze. A bright, cavernous room, bedecked with Memorabilia, tables & comfy chairs. Even Sofas FFS. How can you fuck it up from there?

If you ask for a Pint of Preferred, to sit down & drink inside the room. All those lovely glass vessels are ignored, rejected, indeed verboten. They can only serve your beer in PAPER CUPS. And, this is nothing to do with safety, or no glass outside, or eco friendly. They have always (previously) served you a beer (or anything else) in a glass at Yorkshire 4 Day games on your adult say so that you're going to drink it inside. But, for … reasons … they have now decided to downgrade the experience to PAPER CUPS. 

Yeah. Yeah. I know. Grand scheme and all that. But, that's a bizarre thing to do. Plastic eco if you have to. Although glass, washed is perfectly sustainable. But PAPER CUPS. I give up.

I gave up as far as…

Arcadia
Headingley Central, Otley Rd, Headingley, Leeds LS6 2UE

If you persevere with my Blogs throughout the cricket season, you're going to hear a LOT about Arcadia. And I make no excuses. I want to say "there's been some changes". But, what with the Pandemic an' all that, it's difficult to know the difference between normal & new normal. Nominally, it's still Table Service. But, with a load of Cricket Carrier Baggers all turning up in a three minute window, that's blown out of the water. As people naturally just order at the bar.

The blackboard listing the beers has gone. To be replaced by out of sync beer lists on each table. Which take a lot more maintenance when a new 'un comes on, than just using a damp cloth & chalk.

But, they serve in GLASS. And the beer range is always good.

Pentrich Brewing Co, (Derbyshire), Crooked Paths, Hazy Session Pale on Cask at 4.2%

Hopped with Simcoe, Mosaic and Idaho 7. A lot going on there. Bitter grapefruit. Quite soft & downy to taste. Lot of citrus all over it. The finish wasn't powerful, but man, lasted forever. I was still licking it around as I got back to my seat in the ground.

Right. Disappointing day on the green for the Yorkies. It started nicely. The Lancastrianites were twelve for two off 11 miserly overs. Both going to Jordan Thompson. But, that was it. Croft went for 104 after the New Ball had been taken. Jennings striding up the stairs at Close, 150 Not Out. 

At times, we had the scoring under control. And, a number of, admittedly difficult, chances went down. Patto did 21 overs for 38. Rauf 19 for 62. Loten got carted. But, for long periods, I felt little was being tried. Reconciled to the fate. Quiet in the field. Few Red Bulls, in PAPER CUPS, needed methinks.

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