Ayr Brewing Death & Dr Hornbook Imperial Blonde Ale

Ayr Brewing Death & Dr Hornbook Imperial Blonde Ale

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Brewed by Ayr Brewing Company

Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom

Style:  English Strong Ale

7.2% Alcohol by Volume

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Complex blonde with hints of sweet custard, vanilla, banana, pineapple and honey. Robert Burns’ Poem, Death and Doctor Hornbook (1785), tells of the drunken narrator's late night encounter with the ‘Grim Reaper’ who is annoyed that ‘Dr Hornbook’ a local school teacher who has taken to selling medications and giving medical advice, is successfully thwarting his efforts to gather victims. “Some books are lies frae end to end And some great lies were never penn’d”