Sample Light Refreshments Menu - The Chester Grosvenor

Speciality Beers from EuropeMenabrea 1846 (Menabrea/Italy) 4.8% 33cl £3.95A premium strength lager beer, with a full flavour and distinctive lightcolour. Brewed in Italy’s oldest brewery at the foothills of the Italian Alps,this pilsner-style lager is truly a beer drinker’s beer. Additive free, it is theonly Italian lager still brewed using a completely natural “slow fermentation”process, that makes use of spring water from the Alps and ingredients fromthe Czech Republic, Germany and France.Eastgate Ale (Weetwood Ales/Cheshire) 4.2% 50cl £6.00This golden ale from the Cheshire brewery Weetwood is brewed tocommemorate the centenary of Chester’s Eastgate Clock. The fruityforetaste is followed by a mellow, acceptable finish of hops.Speciality BeersWestons Organic Cider (Westons/England) 6.5% 50cl £5.95Westons have been producing cider in the Herefordshire village of MuchMarcle for 130 years. The Organic Cider has won the 2001 IFE GoldAward and been voted “Best Alcoholic Drink” at the Organic FoodAwards in 1998, 2003 and 2004. It is an easy drinking cider with a ripeapple aroma and a well balanced fruity flavour.Bohemia Regent Draught (Regent/Czech Republic) 5% ½ pint £2.95“Let us make merry, with our hop and ale, it has God’s very strength, sosoon all shall be well.” This verse is written on the entrance to one of theoldest beer breweries in the world. Not many breweries in Europe can beas proud of their heritage as the brewery in Trebon which was founded in1379. A premium beer with a nice hoppy taste and of medium bitternessthat gives this beer good drinkability and makes it therefore very popular.Orval Trappist Ale (Orval/Belgium) 6.2% 33cl £4.95Orval, often referred to as The Queen of Trappists, was first made in 1931,and has a complex and unusual flavour and aroma produced by a uniquestrain of yeast. The beer is light in colour, slightly cloudy, and has a large,foamy head. As with all other Trappist breweries, the beer is only sold inorder to financially support the monastery and some other good causes.All of the profits from the sale of the beer are distributed to charities andfor community development around the region.Hopfenkönig (Schloss Eggenberg/Austria) 5.1% 33cl £4.50Hopfenkönig is a pils style beer with a delicate flavour, fermented andsubsequently matured for twelve weeks in the historic cellars of Eggenberg.Eggenberg once belonged to a Benedictine monastery but has since been in thepossession of the family Forstinger-Stöhr for over 200 years. Beer has been brewedin Schloss Eggenberg since the 14th century and the ‘liquid bread’ was producedexclusively for the inhabitants of the area at that time.