What Americans Boozed On Throughout History

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  • Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024

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  • @joehardy9610
    @joehardy9610 4 года назад +282

    The only good thing that came from prohibition was that' Americans refused to be treated like children and carried on drinking during this period

    • @juliusraben3526
      @juliusraben3526 3 года назад +25

      Id like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs?

    • @charlesncharge6298
      @charlesncharge6298 3 года назад +12

      @@juliusraben3526 lol. I've always thought it's funny how alcohol which is clearly a drug has been completely excluded from the war on drugs.

    • @Johnmhatheist
      @Johnmhatheist 2 года назад +4

      @@charlesncharge6298 The war on alcohol lasted for 13 years. That era was called prohibition

    • @ZAVB3R3R
      @ZAVB3R3R 2 года назад +1

      @@charlesncharge6298 humans have been drinking alcohol for thousands upon thousands of years so its kind of hard to ban it at this point. It literally saved lives for most of that time.

    • @Pradapussy
      @Pradapussy 2 года назад +1

      @@ZAVB3R3R I mean so have cocaine and opium n stuff but those are still illegal

  • @robertcone5368
    @robertcone5368 5 лет назад +567

    Ah alcohol. The cause and solution to all our problems

  • @Laterkids
    @Laterkids 4 года назад +332

    I did not know the teetotalers killed off apple species. That's insane.

    • @anarchyandempires5452
      @anarchyandempires5452 4 года назад +14

      We can bring them back...No We MUST bring them back!!!

    • @GTLees
      @GTLees 4 года назад +14

      Nothin' like a fanatic to make things happen.

    • @BlowJelloPoP47
      @BlowJelloPoP47 4 года назад +1

      damn propaganda extremists...

    • @mikepellerin4611
      @mikepellerin4611 4 года назад +18

      Those cider apple species were killed off in the US, but I believe some of the species may still exist in central asia and parts of europe. Some of those cider apple species were planted in the US by non-other than Johnny Appleseed himself.

    • @joseleswopes4396
      @joseleswopes4396 4 года назад +1

      Yes, Bee's Knees 🐝

  • @SweetReed17
    @SweetReed17 3 года назад +67

    Fun fact about cider:
    The apple orchards that Johnny Appleseed planted across new england and the midwest, were made for cider, not the kind of apples you pick and eat off the tree.

    • @tylersoto7465
      @tylersoto7465 Год назад +1

      Lmao, johnny Appleseed is a American hero blessing us with more ways to drink more lol

    • @voiceofreason2674
      @voiceofreason2674 Год назад

      Johnny Appleseed was basque

  • @acidsteve9837
    @acidsteve9837 4 года назад +666

    The prohibition didn't work for alcohol...... But it will surely work for other drugs, right? #thanksamerica

    • @Kasphs95
      @Kasphs95 4 года назад +19

      The police didnt get all criminals.... why do we even have police then? Right?

    • @calexander7495
      @calexander7495 4 года назад +34

      Not really the same. It's a little hard to moderate Meth use since it literally drives you insane.

    • @acidsteve9837
      @acidsteve9837 4 года назад +22

      Hm, not true, but i see why closed minded people would think that

    • @therainbowwillow4453
      @therainbowwillow4453 4 года назад +29

      Why don’t they just teach how to safely do those activities?

    • @JB-1138
      @JB-1138 4 года назад

      #TheMoreYouKnow.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 года назад +371

    A Christmas without booze would be intolerable.
    Unless it was a Christmas without family too, of course.

    • @ivoryscott1162
      @ivoryscott1162 4 года назад +3

      😆🤣😂

    • @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980
      @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 4 года назад +5

      @John Barber Ah I can see you've spent some time in Utah.

    • @Cory_Dora
      @Cory_Dora 4 года назад +3

      Id prefer the Christmas without family and with booze.

    • @AmyBlack1206
      @AmyBlack1206 4 года назад +1

      New Message got to have apple pie Boilo. Yummy!!

    • @doordieace5high
      @doordieace5high 4 года назад +6

      Smoke weed instead. Much more tolerable with no hangover.

  • @Coyote1.618
    @Coyote1.618 4 года назад +102

    I need 200 bottles of Tequila..
    That will be 4 donkeys

    • @mightymikethebear
      @mightymikethebear 4 года назад +1

      What will you do with the donkeys after they deliver your tequila?

    • @jessesprinkle3678
      @jessesprinkle3678 4 года назад +2

      @@mightymikethebear sell it them to McDonald’s in the 80’s

  • @KadenKilgore
    @KadenKilgore 4 года назад +225

    I was going to leave an angry comment about the lack of cider, but I guess you saved the best for last. It’s honestly sad the way prohibition affected the apple industry. Thousands upon thousands of apple varieties just gone forever, including one of Thomas Jefferson’s favorite cider apples, the Taliaferro.

    • @Sekien07
      @Sekien07 4 года назад +25

      I had no idea such a tragedy occurred :(

    • @92bagder
      @92bagder 4 года назад +10

      and the Hewes crab apple. I too want to see cider/peary make a comeback with heirloom varieties; thats my dream.Fear not my friend as species of apples that were once extinct get rediscovered ruclips.net/video/Isq1-htLiEk/видео.html

    • @donnychooch9860
      @donnychooch9860 4 года назад +8

      I have lots of heritage variety on my land and see more and more popping back up becuase of the cider demand

    • @LedosKell
      @LedosKell 4 года назад +3

      I thought taliaferros were found on some farm a couple years back.

    • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
      @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +6

      Applejack was such a famous American drink..

  • @kizunadragon9
    @kizunadragon9 4 года назад +280

    Mountain Dew started as a mixer for moonshine.

    • @maddog7795
      @maddog7795 4 года назад +26

      Funny because that's what I mix with my homeade apple pie moonshine lol

    • @the4bidden142
      @the4bidden142 4 года назад +7

      Mountain Dew and Cpt Morgan was my hs friends drink of choice 👍

    • @ericsmith7176
      @ericsmith7176 4 года назад +31

      Which is funny to me because mt dew is the worse thing to mix with any alcohol. Lol taste like shit

    • @OGinferno93
      @OGinferno93 4 года назад +18

      @@ericsmith7176 yeah coke is the way to go

    • @krisbrown4761
      @krisbrown4761 4 года назад +3

      Al Capone I don’t like cola. I’ll use 7up to chase whiskey before I use coke. That’s just me though.

  • @keelahrose
    @keelahrose 4 года назад +114

    It would be so great if you guys actually cited your sources in the description of the videos, or listed them at the end of the video. Not only would that seriously improve your overall credibility and allow teachers to make better use of these videos as student resources, it would allow viewers who are interested in learning more to seek the information directly from the same source that you got it from. And of course, the actual historians who did the research deserve some credit too.

    • @jacobfranklin820
      @jacobfranklin820 4 года назад +7

      Agree

    • @bobharmon8834
      @bobharmon8834 4 года назад +8

      Or don’t write 3 paragraphs of nothing but whiny salty bullshit and either watch or don’t.

    • @Reece983
      @Reece983 4 года назад +5

      @@bobharmon8834 He just wants to learn

    • @UncleMichaelable
      @UncleMichaelable 4 года назад +4

      You can also do your own research and then decide to show it or not.

    • @collingregory8010
      @collingregory8010 4 года назад +1

      The whole mouse thing to affect the taste of the liquor is complete bullshit. Coming from an Appalachian native who has had moonshining in the family sense the 1800s. This pissed me off hard core

  • @itrthho
    @itrthho 3 года назад +10

    No mention of ”Applejack” (Apple Brandy) when cider wasn’t strong enough and you had non cider apples left over at harvest. Popular among Founding Fathers.

  • @hugobrown2516
    @hugobrown2516 4 года назад +44

    100th anniversary of prohibition is coming up. I'll dwink to that!

  • @katieandkevinsears7724
    @katieandkevinsears7724 4 года назад +15

    I don't text anyone when I'm drinking. I get on RUclips and watch Weird History videos.

    • @erickort1987
      @erickort1987 3 года назад

      im subscribed to a few whiskey review channels..bourbon junkies for one

  • @bryanmeekins835
    @bryanmeekins835 4 года назад +16

    When I saw the ingredients for tarantula juice, my first thought was, "people actually drank that and lived to tell about it?"

  • @LoveRemains
    @LoveRemains 4 года назад +166

    This is the type of content I subscribed for. Just random & interesting information.
    Btw, they drank “beer” and “wine” because it was safer to drink than water (which was often contaminated with bacteria) if anyone missed that. 🙂

    • @davidmikhael8688
      @davidmikhael8688 4 года назад +4

      Thanks cutie

    • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
      @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +14

      They mentioned that in the first few minutes of the video :)

    • @Docmain3
      @Docmain3 4 года назад +1

      1:12

    • @edwhite7078
      @edwhite7078 4 года назад +7

      Yeah that's kind of a looking back on history take. Sure people probably said that in towns and cities. But out here where I live there are many natural springs where people still get their water not to mention the countless well everyone uses. Just because history is written by city dwellers don't think that's how most people lived

    • @isaacwilson5284
      @isaacwilson5284 3 года назад

      Is this video sanitary? Seems questionable to me.

  • @fungusboy7369
    @fungusboy7369 4 года назад +13

    As someone who once drank a “tarantula juice.” I can tell you that it will give you the nastiest headache you’ve ever felt. (I am a Virginia City native)

    • @suleskos.2743
      @suleskos.2743 4 года назад +4

      I'll take your word for it lol

  • @oszaszi
    @oszaszi 4 года назад +9

    Watching this made me happy for some reason.

  • @Alex-ru4rv
    @Alex-ru4rv 4 года назад +5

    Appreciating the history of liquor makes me an aficionado rather than an alcoholic

  • @jessej7111
    @jessej7111 4 года назад +104

    Did anything good come from Prohibition? Oddly enough, it made mixed drinks MORE popular than they were before! Ha ha!

    • @doughtymqan
      @doughtymqan 4 года назад +5

      Sam Marwick same with marijuana

    • @TheStoffl96
      @TheStoffl96 4 года назад +9

      @@doughtymqan Marijuana was popular before religion became popular.

    • @TheTaylorkidd
      @TheTaylorkidd 4 года назад +2

      Zenpai not true lol

    • @daleholbert3111
      @daleholbert3111 4 года назад +1

      That where the Kennedy got there money

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 4 года назад +2

      @Michael Perez My great-grandfather was high up in the mob, and he made quite a bundle from prohibition. Not that any of that money ever made it to me.

  • @HistoryExplained
    @HistoryExplained 5 лет назад +30

    Happy Holidays & Happy New Year Strange History! 🎄☃️

  • @vegetaversace8019
    @vegetaversace8019 4 года назад +33

    "Today's Amercian on average only drink 2.3 Gallons of alcohol."
    Wisconsin: Hold my Liquor.

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 4 года назад +6

      on average.. as in take all alcohol and divide by americans.. of course a small percent do the large percent of the drinking.. 2.3 gallons is probably closer to a monthly intake uphere in canada

    • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
      @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +3

      @@AndrewBrowner The cold misery would make me easily drink 2.3 gallons per month in canada.

    • @gst013
      @gst013 4 года назад +3

      Canadians don't really drink that much alcohol...we just smoke a lot of weed lol. By the way, I wonder if many Americans know that a lot of major Canadian cities are actually a lot warmer than some American ones 😅

    • @walterbrunswick
      @walterbrunswick 4 года назад

      @@gst013 By that account I am definitely definitely not Canadian, though born here. Drunk at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday. Ukrainian/Russian roots definitely predominant.

    • @timothyhaley6187
      @timothyhaley6187 4 года назад

      I don't think this stat is including beer and wine.

  • @MrKajithecat
    @MrKajithecat 4 года назад +13

    Alcohol, coffee and tea kept people alive especially near large towns and cities. Drinking untreated water was a gamble unless boiled which most prepared drinks were. During the 1854 Broad Street Cholera Ourbreak physicians realized the people who weren't affected were the brewers at the local brewery who were given a daily rations of free beer.

    • @zapcodeknock4503
      @zapcodeknock4503 Год назад +1

      In many cases your cities drinking water is still a gamble

  • @mckenziegillespie3044
    @mckenziegillespie3044 4 года назад +6

    I'm currently 8 months sober but I've always wondered about the %s and different type of drinks of the yester years beer n booze . Thanks weird history

  • @tegripp6443
    @tegripp6443 4 года назад +3

    Really needed to give props to Madeira wine and its association the Founding Fathers. Hancock smuggled it, John Adams wrote home about it, and Samuel Adams toasted with Madeira. There is much more...too much to include here. Fascinating stuff for history geeks and delicious too!

  • @casey-j-neercjn7856
    @casey-j-neercjn7856 4 года назад +22

    Literally nothing good came from prohibition

    • @mmjahink
      @mmjahink 4 года назад +1

      We got perspective

    • @rickkinki4624
      @rickkinki4624 3 года назад

      If you like the Kennedy family, JFK's father got rich from bootlegging during prohibition.

  • @savannahkeller8368
    @savannahkeller8368 4 года назад +6

    This man single handed my has taught me more history than any instructor ever

  • @Saskguy20
    @Saskguy20 4 года назад +16

    When the doc smashed through the table, that's how I was the first time I had my grandfather's farm coffee. I was 9 years old with a badass 5 o'clock shadow the next day.

    • @dylanhaugen3739
      @dylanhaugen3739 4 года назад +3

      I'm guessing that " coffee " was more whiskey than anything.

    • @Saskguy20
      @Saskguy20 4 года назад +2

      @@dylanhaugen3739 I took from the wrong pot of coffee that day.

  • @shanephelan75
    @shanephelan75 4 года назад +5

    Earth without Booze, is an earth not worth living.

  • @TiredOldDad1
    @TiredOldDad1 3 года назад +5

    I'm glad to see cider is finally coming back. It is a wonderful festive departure from beer and mixed drinks. Exclusive cider bars in places like Chicago were commonplace prepandemic. Like many businesses, some of them were forced to close down. Hopefully they will come back.

  • @asddsdsssd
    @asddsdsssd 4 года назад +32

    "When America started treating adults like adults again"
    Hmm...seems we've forgotten again.

    • @gst013
      @gst013 4 года назад +7

      Maybe if Americans would just suck it up and stop being crybabies over adhering to simple public health measures during a pandemic (like people in pretty much every other developed country have done) then they'd be treated more like adults 😅

    • @Captain__cooked
      @Captain__cooked 4 года назад +4

      @@gst013 this is fucking america if we gonna die due to shitty health decisions its our right to. And if your at risk for covid stay the fuck home and do what you were doing before the pandemic cause it was most likely the same thing. But the rest of us got an economy to run and dont give a shit about fabrics that do nothing against a virus that wont negativly effect the healthy population

    • @gst013
      @gst013 4 года назад +7

      @@Captain__cooked gee, I can't imagine why things have gotten so far out of hand with attitudes like this. It'd be one thing if it were about your own stupidity, but it's not. It's about protecting the health of your fellow Americans, not to mention your family and friends if we have to be selfish here. It's really not hard to wear a mask while you work. Suck it up and stop being a big snowflake. If you wish to defy and ignore all available information and advice from experts and believe that masks somehow don't work, maybe try the moron test and sneeze into your hand, then put on a mask and try again. You'll notice a slight difference. And the virus, like any virus, travels via vectors like tiny water droplets that come out when you breathe, cough and sneeze...you're not literally breathing out the virus lol. This is why masks are effective, and the better the seal, the higher the effectiveness. This is 4th grade science stuff, but it seems hard for some to understand.
      Luckily for me I live in Korea at the moment, where silly, selfish attitudes like this and conspiracy nonsense don't exist, and everyone put on a mask and went back to work almost immediately, and everything is pretty close to back to normal now. 50 million people in a country the size of Florida, and we went from the hardest hit country outside of China to one of the safest in about 5 months. This really isn't complicated or difficult. The whining of some people over a simple public health measure is mind-boggling.

    • @Captain__cooked
      @Captain__cooked 4 года назад +2

      @@gst013 @gst013 yes lets trust the same experts who also lied to us about it at the begining. There just saying bullshit to keep everyone calm and not panick just like those same experts said the virus wouldnt effect anyone at the begining. Masks also again dont do much, and they slightly stop it yes, are they effective at stopping all of it no most droplets still get through and if its possible the virus can spread through air transmission instead of droplet transmission then masks dont do anything. Masks only do anything when used with social distancing, and social distancing is the effective strategy not wearing masks. Masks dont do anything besides provide false senses of security. And btw the only way to stop the virus is herd immunity, only achieveable through a vaccine which doesnt exist or getting the virus. The virus also again doesnt negativly effect 99% of the people who get it. And if youre at risk then take precautions but the rest of us it doesnt matter and honestly us healthly people should probably get the virus anyways at this point for herd immunity to be achieved

    • @gst013
      @gst013 4 года назад +1

      @@Captain__cooked no, the virus doesn't kill 99% of those affected with it...about 40% of people show no negative effects. And to be frank, that is an interesting perspective, but we have no idea if herd immunity actually is a thing with covid, and with this being a virus that's only existed for about 6 months, we also have no idea what the long term effects of it might be, so folks like yourself to be gambling with the short and long term health of others are being more than a little irresponsible.
      And by the way, current data indicates that simple cloth masks are about 70% effective alone in reducing viral transmission, and if you could eliminate over two thirds of covid transmission in the states by simply putting on a mask in public, that'd be a good thing. And it would be much higher if n95 masks were widely available there, as they are here. It's certainly worked incredibly well in countries where everyone's been wearing masks. The difference is staggering.

  • @daveaaron8209
    @daveaaron8209 4 года назад +66

    And I quote the great Homer Simpson( Alcohol the cause of and answer to all life’s problems) so true!!

    • @natdmc85
      @natdmc85 4 года назад +2

      Cause and solution

  • @Turok1134
    @Turok1134 3 года назад +2

    5:17 "...with a 1976 San Bernardino vintage."
    Lmaoooooooo

  • @Wraith_of_Storm
    @Wraith_of_Storm 4 года назад +10

    Well...nowadays...pretty much everyone is back to downing liquor, so I'd say Prohibition was a colossal waste of time, effort, and money...

  • @awizardalso
    @awizardalso 4 года назад +2

    In 2008, my wife was suffering from severe depression and left me. My daughter bought me for Christmas a bottle of Lagavulin Single Islay Malt Whisky that had been aged for 16 years. When I finished that bottle I started buying Laphroaig Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky aged for 10 years. My wife came back in 2010 but I was already an alcoholic and she was much better. On January 10th, 2016 against all advice I finished off a bottle and just quit drinking outright. It was not the best way to quit drinking but I survived the withdrawal and after 2 weeks I came back to being my normal self. At least I was a passive drunk and never got violent.

  • @pottingsoil
    @pottingsoil 4 года назад +4

    Pabst's Blue ribbon wasn't an award, but instead a ribbon that used to on every bottle of the beer.

  • @therealbs2000
    @therealbs2000 3 года назад +2

    History makes a lot more sense when you imagine people were buzzing or drunk 24/7

  • @seanmcdonald5859
    @seanmcdonald5859 4 года назад +26

    1600's "We drink beer in lieu of water because its healthier"
    Hipsters "Im drinking out of a jam jar"

    • @anarchyandempires5452
      @anarchyandempires5452 4 года назад +1

      In my defense, I sure as shit ain't paying for drinking glasses if my PBJ sandwich addiction already provides me plenty of containers.

    • @dashieldmasta177
      @dashieldmasta177 4 года назад +2

      Sean McDonald We’ve been drinking out of jars for over 150 years you yuppie

    • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
      @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +1

      @@anarchyandempires5452 A one pint wide mouth mason jar costs $1.10.

    • @anarchyandempires5452
      @anarchyandempires5452 4 года назад +1

      @@vincivedivicilextalionas4036 $4 if it's full of Grape jelly.

  • @edwardbaker1331
    @edwardbaker1331 Год назад +1

    Well, my family learned how to make bathtub blackberry brandy during prohibition. I still have the antique alcohol hydrometer as a family heirloom. I'm thinking of gluing it on to the family crest.

  • @tjdavis991
    @tjdavis991 4 года назад +15

    Great Content as always

  • @honkytonkinson9787
    @honkytonkinson9787 3 года назад +6

    It’s hard to get a good grasp on reality back then but from what I’ve read alcoholism and drunkenness was widely tolerated by society before prohibition. Maybe prohibition recalibrated society’s acceptance of responsible drinking

  • @ikhideikpefan8740
    @ikhideikpefan8740 4 года назад +38

    When I drink a lot I start to text my self.

  • @nanaalex818
    @nanaalex818 Год назад +3

    It seems that prohibition created more alcoholic beverages than it prohibited 😂

  • @youngvices7938
    @youngvices7938 4 года назад +18

    10:30 like adults again.
    Weed still illegal in my state

    • @jackass123491
      @jackass123491 3 года назад +1

      It's illegal in mine too unfortunately. It's legal for medical but your condition has to be something really bad. Recreational is still illegal.

  • @haorgoc86
    @haorgoc86 4 года назад +50

    Merry Christmas soothing voice actor weird history.

  • @DJFATCalvin
    @DJFATCalvin 4 года назад +13

    Who do I text when I drink? Oh man, as a recovering alcoholic, that hit a little too close to home! My poor momma hearing and reading my rants, probably a few ex girlfriends too, but don’t remember all that well, sorry anyway

    • @shaunbritton939
      @shaunbritton939 3 года назад

      Lol been there glad I don't drink no more btw keep up the sobriety it's better than a hang over acting a fool ruining relationships

  • @n8drus769
    @n8drus769 2 года назад

    I enjoyed your video and a beer while listening to your fun delivery.Thank you!

  • @asapavila9857
    @asapavila9857 5 лет назад +6

    What’s sooooooo good about this channel is the love for their fans, as soon as they see a video idea in the comments, they do it.

  • @blitzzbob5643
    @blitzzbob5643 3 года назад +1

    There would be no Jim Lahey without booze. That would be a shame. Rip John D.

  • @m3528i
    @m3528i 4 года назад +6

    We've forgotten what it's like to lose our liberty. We're paying for it now. AD 7/11/20

  • @geo77sand
    @geo77sand Год назад

    Fascinating historic tip. That was certainly weird - especially that drunk Kermit ;-)

  • @brxkenhalo
    @brxkenhalo 4 года назад +5

    _1:53__ my brain started playing what'd i miss help-_

    • @ccubsfan94
      @ccubsfan94 4 года назад

      Head first, into the abyss

  • @johnbarr7073
    @johnbarr7073 2 года назад +1

    Prohibition created a breed and creed that lives to this day

  • @blacksuite1
    @blacksuite1 4 года назад +74

    I wonder if the people that pushed for prohibition regretted it after witnessing the violence it created.

    • @vtwintora
      @vtwintora 4 года назад +1

      I don't think so

    • @thomasridley8675
      @thomasridley8675 4 года назад +6

      Some of them did. Enough to get it repealed.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards 4 года назад +2

      No because Statist Fu*ks are always Statist Fu*ks and revel in dominating the lives of others. See the needless lives and Liberty lost as part of the drug war.

    • @willeek3760
      @willeek3760 4 года назад

      another prohibition in the usa & europe is a possiblity now /(-_-)\

    • @admiralduckshmidt2248
      @admiralduckshmidt2248 4 года назад

      will:e .k
      I searched how I did not see how pls explain

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 3 года назад +2

    One thing they don't tell you about Johnny Appleseed that he did not plant apple trees for the fruit to be eaten... but rather to be turned into Applejack which is Apple based liquor

  • @mirandaschurz5522
    @mirandaschurz5522 4 года назад +10

    Paul revere looks like Jack black lmao

  • @sunlightpictures8367
    @sunlightpictures8367 2 года назад +1

    Both of my grandfathers used to brew their own beer during prohibition using baker's yeast to ferment it.

  • @jeffreysalvador7076
    @jeffreysalvador7076 4 года назад +16

    What type of person would think that putting rat corpses in a drink, a good idea.

    • @Edog12
      @Edog12 4 года назад +3

      Jeffrey Salvador probably someone who really wants to drink during prohibition. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

    • @danielOconahap
      @danielOconahap 4 года назад +2

      same people who first thought goat poop will make good coffee :D

    • @OP5redsolocup
      @OP5redsolocup 4 года назад +1

      The kind missing some teeth, and can shred on a banjo lol

    • @GTLees
      @GTLees 4 года назад

      Jeffrey Salvador probably some guy who had some rat corpses to dispose of. He wouldn't drink the swill that was brewin' anyway so he just chucked 'em in the barrell.

    • @bluewolf993
      @bluewolf993 4 года назад +1

      My region is infamous for moonshine production and running. I have never heard of such a thing. It’s being distilled to the point that the alcohol content is so high you can use it as a (somewhat good) disinfectant. I wouldn’t worry about it!

  • @primitivetechnologypast3966
    @primitivetechnologypast3966 4 года назад

    Great video, I always look forward to your uploads!

  • @MiKeMiDNiTe-77
    @MiKeMiDNiTe-77 4 года назад +72

    Prohibition was stupid and it ddnt stop people drinking 🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🥂🥃🍾🍹🍺🍸🍻🍷🥂🥃🍾

    • @crystaldavis6169
      @crystaldavis6169 4 года назад +7

      Mike Cool the real reason for prohibition was because of the Rockefeller’s. Farmers were running there trucks on alcohol. So the oil tycoon family had alcohol illegal. Same with marijuana. Ford made a switch on the model t where you could put hemp oil in it and the car would run. Never believe the mainstream narrative. It’s a hook in your mouth.
      GOD bless.

    • @jamesricker3997
      @jamesricker3997 4 года назад +5

      It actually increased alcohol consumption

    • @FirstLast-qf1df
      @FirstLast-qf1df 4 года назад +5

      Neither does setting the drinking age at 21

    • @CJ9007
      @CJ9007 4 года назад +5

      Prohibition of weed is also stupid and stops no one

    • @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980
      @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 4 года назад +3

      @@crystaldavis6169 Oh what a load of Bullshitski comrade!
      Fake profile, No content & textbook Kremlin diversionary rhetoric = Russian Backed Troll. Nice try Vlad but no one's falling for your Bullshitski here comrade!

  • @DoctorRobertNeville
    @DoctorRobertNeville 4 года назад +1

    You forgot to add some breweries switched over to making soft drinks just to keep their factories open, and producing some kind of product until prohibition was repealed.

  • @GTLees
    @GTLees 4 года назад +6

    I like a little drink I call the "Jamaican Yo-yo". I mix 4 ounces of black rum with 4 ounces of Kahlua on ice and it's a tasty one that doesn't take too many refills to make ya wobbly heh, heh. It may go by other names somewhere else but I've never come across 'em.

  • @Alkmaar50
    @Alkmaar50 3 года назад +1

    LMAO!.."no wonder the life expectancy was only 40 with these people" 😂😂

  • @justinsander7654
    @justinsander7654 4 года назад +3

    Nothing good ever comes from prohibition unless you consider developments in the refinement and production of the prohibited item.

  • @danielgodfrey4415
    @danielgodfrey4415 3 года назад +1

    1 gallon apple juice/cider
    2 lbs honey
    1 cinnamon stick (after distillation)
    Distillers yeast
    ...
    Your welcome

  • @questionresearch8721
    @questionresearch8721 4 года назад +3

    I ❤️this channel.

  • @bronzegrippz8424
    @bronzegrippz8424 4 года назад +2

    Wish you guys would've included Applejack as it's one of the most important liquors in American history

  • @sheenydonut
    @sheenydonut 4 года назад +6

    Mmm yes. A good video to watch while I'm currently *boozing* my way through the holidays.
    *Merry Christmas nerds*

  • @TheInvisibleShadow95
    @TheInvisibleShadow95 4 года назад +2

    Like, I know where my phone is when I'm drinking. Good one.

  • @gregmartin1757
    @gregmartin1757 4 года назад +3

    Colonial ale was not bland.probaly way more flavourful than most of today's brews.

  • @JacobGen
    @JacobGen 5 лет назад +2

    After a 12 hour shift I always watch these videos after work. Keep up the good work!

  • @rickkinki4624
    @rickkinki4624 3 года назад +5

    A sincere thank you to Mexico for giving us tequila!

  • @chrisrenaldo643
    @chrisrenaldo643 3 года назад

    your video is a well made, balanced historical cocktail! cheers!

  • @GIG312
    @GIG312 5 лет назад +60

    Merry Christmas yo!!

  • @zachconkwright5025
    @zachconkwright5025 4 года назад +2

    25 cents a gallon in the 1820's is $550 today, idk if inflation was accounted for.

    • @lowkeykeylow5526
      @lowkeykeylow5526 4 года назад +2

      $0.25 was worth about 5 dollars in today's times I believe the Inflation rate was around -8%.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 5 лет назад +18

    I raise my pint and duly say MERRY CHRISTMAS and a BOOZY night to all!!!

  • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
    @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs 4 года назад +1

    Did Alexander Hamiltom stop the Whiskey Rebellion with song and dance? 😂

  • @temjentulapongen5358
    @temjentulapongen5358 5 лет назад +5

    I love watching this channel because it has history

  • @DAVFEARON
    @DAVFEARON 4 года назад +5

    That Jamaican impersonation is killing me

    • @WeirdHistory
      @WeirdHistory  4 года назад +3

      It is a really bad John Candy impression who was doing a Jamaican accent :D

    • @DAVFEARON
      @DAVFEARON 4 года назад +2

      Lol. That's fine
      Yuh Gud mon

  • @chesspiece115
    @chesspiece115 4 года назад +24

    "Whats your name man?"
    3:40

    • @lovejoymbedzi9643
      @lovejoymbedzi9643 4 года назад +2

      YeEzter Alexander Hamilton, my name is Alexander Hamilton.

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 4 года назад

      There's a million things he hasn't done...but just you wait.

  • @kenm8376
    @kenm8376 3 года назад +5

    My dad and uncle used to run lightnin. It is still known to be some of the best to come out of that area. He never got into adding sugar and such (moonshine) and was very adamant about the difference.

  • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
    @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +4

    I'm a 6th generation Moonshiner and I say _drink em all_

  • @bboy9955
    @bboy9955 4 года назад +3

    Ive been making booze since i was 14. Its a good thing.

    • @zapcodeknock4503
      @zapcodeknock4503 Год назад

      Cheers and man you must have an interesting family

  • @kameronhardy8938
    @kameronhardy8938 4 года назад +4

    In Medford mass 😂 now I love my city. I was like wtf

  • @gabbykamfwa7119
    @gabbykamfwa7119 Год назад

    "imagine a world without booze, there'd be no animal house"😂😂😂

  • @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980
    @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 4 года назад +23

    The *only* State in the US that prohibition work in was Utah - for obvious reasons.

  • @brendan5065
    @brendan5065 3 года назад +1

    I TEXT WHEN I DRINK!?!?!?
    SIR. I MAKE SURE MY PHONE IS OFF WHEN I DRINK PAST THE SECOND

  • @lukebogacik2793
    @lukebogacik2793 4 года назад +9

    Nothing good comes from infringement of rights. ❤️✌🏼🙏🏻🇺🇸

    • @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE
      @SONJASAVEDBYGRACE 4 года назад +1

      Luke Bogacik I agree wholeheartedly

    • @passiveaggressivenegotiato8087
      @passiveaggressivenegotiato8087 4 года назад +3

      no one ever told us it was women's fault, but it was. At the same time they were pushing for the right to vote, they were pushing to ban the demon liquor.

  • @atribecalledjudah5436
    @atribecalledjudah5436 3 года назад

    Merlot has taken a big dive since that Sideways line.

  • @johnyurick8785
    @johnyurick8785 4 года назад +6

    Cheers 🍻😎

  • @cocoaorange1
    @cocoaorange1 10 месяцев назад

    I did not know tequila was introduced the 1893 World's Fair, nor did I know Mary Pick ford had a drink named after her.

  • @taxiuniversum
    @taxiuniversum 4 года назад +7

    Prohibition was idiotic.
    The only „positive“ thing I could imagine was maybe some awareness of the dangers of alcohol.

  • @psyxypher3881
    @psyxypher3881 4 года назад +2

    IIRC, Pilgrims and Puritans are different. I mean, hopefully those textbooks on Massachusetts history weren't BS, considering I live here...

  • @ironnordegraf
    @ironnordegraf 4 года назад +7

    Why does that painting of Paul Revere look so much like a young Jack Black lol

    • @davidmikhael8688
      @davidmikhael8688 4 года назад

      Cause he looked like him
      Duh

    • @thorinharig5042
      @thorinharig5042 4 года назад +1

      Now I'm sitting here thinking about Jack Black getting into a blacked out Challenger in the middle of the night, throwing a rifle in the passenger seat, and driving around yelling "The cops are coming, the cops are coming!" through a megaphone. Y'know, Paul Revere's ride 2.0

  • @indigowolf556
    @indigowolf556 3 года назад

    My grandmother actually ran a speakeasy. That is so great.

  • @peanuntmandms24601
    @peanuntmandms24601 4 года назад +16

    Prohabition actually left to the fall of the KKK so ya there is that. For those who are wondering the mostly Italian and Irish defended New York and Chicago Mafia's hated the KKK. One more thing the KKK was a big supporter of prohabition because it would drive out a lot of mostly German Brewer family's out of business. Okay I was drunk when I wrote this so I can't remember the sources of info I used sorry.

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 4 года назад +2

      peanuntmandms24601 the KKK hated... Germans??

    • @jean-lucpicard3012
      @jean-lucpicard3012 4 года назад +3

      Before WWII yes.. They hated all foreigners...

    • @mikatu
      @mikatu 4 года назад +2

      mate kkk is still a thing today..... nothing changed in that department

    • @ravenpineshomestead
      @ravenpineshomestead 4 года назад +5

      @@mikatu the original KKK actually was wiped out, and wasn't an active organization for some time. What we have today is a menagerie of copycat fascists that parade as the KKK, when in reality it's just a bunch of racist Hicks clinging to the past dressed in bedsheets

  • @basstrammel1322
    @basstrammel1322 4 года назад

    Homemade hooch (small batches) can be awesome for mixing cocktails. Haven't seen much of it the last two decades, though.

  • @rin8310
    @rin8310 5 лет назад +5

    Merry Christmas Weird History

  • @lynnb3965
    @lynnb3965 5 лет назад +1

    I love your channel, thanks for making videos!!!

  • @JayDagny
    @JayDagny 4 года назад +8

    No mention of apple jack and that’s kinda disappointing. Laird’s was dranken by Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ. Long history and all American....... Johnny Appleseed was trying to help people make it

    • @JustinPerrin
      @JustinPerrin 4 года назад

      Jay Dagny I was thinking the same thing. Then hard cider came up and I was like oh they’ll mention it here. Nope.

  • @christopherhenderson4550
    @christopherhenderson4550 4 года назад

    Prohibition helped create hooch & other good alcoholic beverages. Prohibition just helped make liquor better. Just as the “War on drugs” helped drug sales through the roof.