What Americans Boozed On Throughout History
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The history of alcohol in America, from colonial cider drinkers to prohibition hooch smugglers, shows the lengths Americans went for their booze. Some cowboys were said to be so desperate at the saloons they threw back a mixture of gin and strychnine, while some speculate that the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in winter because they ran out of beer. In the late 19th century, Americans flocked to bars to try new, exciting cocktails, while German immigrants popularized a new style of beer.
#Booze #BeerHistory #WeirdHistory
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.
Lmao, johnny Appleseed is a American hero blessing us with more ways to drink more lol
Johnny Appleseed was basque
The only good thing that came from prohibition was that' Americans refused to be treated like children and carried on drinking during this period
Id like to congratulate drugs, for winning the war on drugs?
@@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.
@@charlesncharge6298 The war on alcohol lasted for 13 years. That era was called prohibition
@@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.
@@ZAVB3R3R I mean so have cocaine and opium n stuff but those are still illegal
I did not know the teetotalers killed off apple species. That's insane.
We can bring them back...No We MUST bring them back!!!
Nothin' like a fanatic to make things happen.
damn propaganda extremists...
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.
Yes, Bee's Knees 🐝
Ah alcohol. The cause and solution to all our problems
lol
Alcohol is not a cause, but it is definitely a solution, if you know what I mean.
@@captainbongwater7790 booooh
What movie was this from again?
Simpsons Quote
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.
I had no idea such a tragedy occurred :(
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
I have lots of heritage variety on my land and see more and more popping back up becuase of the cider demand
I thought taliaferros were found on some farm a couple years back.
Applejack was such a famous American drink..
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. 🙂
Thanks cutie
They mentioned that in the first few minutes of the video :)
1:12
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
Is this video sanitary? Seems questionable to me.
Happy Holidays & Happy New Year Strange History! 🎄☃️
The prohibition didn't work for alcohol...... But it will surely work for other drugs, right? #thanksamerica
The police didnt get all criminals.... why do we even have police then? Right?
Not really the same. It's a little hard to moderate Meth use since it literally drives you insane.
Hm, not true, but i see why closed minded people would think that
Why don’t they just teach how to safely do those activities?
#TheMoreYouKnow.
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)
I'll take your word for it lol
A Christmas without booze would be intolerable.
Unless it was a Christmas without family too, of course.
😆🤣😂
@John Barber Ah I can see you've spent some time in Utah.
Id prefer the Christmas without family and with booze.
New Message got to have apple pie Boilo. Yummy!!
Smoke weed instead. Much more tolerable with no hangover.
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.
Agree
Or don’t write 3 paragraphs of nothing but whiny salty bullshit and either watch or don’t.
@@bobharmon8834 He just wants to learn
You can also do your own research and then decide to show it or not.
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
Watching this made me happy for some reason.
When I saw the ingredients for tarantula juice, my first thought was, "people actually drank that and lived to tell about it?"
Exactly my thoughts
Mountain Dew started as a mixer for moonshine.
Funny because that's what I mix with my homeade apple pie moonshine lol
Mountain Dew and Cpt Morgan was my hs friends drink of choice 👍
Which is funny to me because mt dew is the worse thing to mix with any alcohol. Lol taste like shit
@@ericsmith7176 yeah coke is the way to go
Al Capone I don’t like cola. I’ll use 7up to chase whiskey before I use coke. That’s just me though.
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
"Today's Amercian on average only drink 2.3 Gallons of alcohol."
Wisconsin: Hold my Liquor.
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
@@AndrewBrowner The cold misery would make me easily drink 2.3 gallons per month in canada.
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 😅
@@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.
I don't think this stat is including beer and wine.
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.
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.
I need 200 bottles of Tequila..
That will be 4 donkeys
What will you do with the donkeys after they deliver your tequila?
@@mightymikethebear sell it them to McDonald’s in the 80’s
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.
In many cases your cities drinking water is still a gamble
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.
Most cider tastes like pish
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!
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.
I'm guessing that " coffee " was more whiskey than anything.
@@dylanhaugen3739 I took from the wrong pot of coffee that day.
Appreciating the history of liquor makes me an aficionado rather than an alcoholic
This man single handed my has taught me more history than any instructor ever
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.
100th anniversary of prohibition is coming up. I'll dwink to that!
5:17 "...with a 1976 San Bernardino vintage."
Lmaoooooooo
10:30 like adults again.
Weed still illegal in my state
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.
I enjoyed your video and a beer while listening to your fun delivery.Thank you!
I don't text anyone when I'm drinking. I get on RUclips and watch Weird History videos.
im subscribed to a few whiskey review channels..bourbon junkies for one
Great Content as always
I agree with you!
Did anything good come from Prohibition? Oddly enough, it made mixed drinks MORE popular than they were before! Ha ha!
Sam Marwick same with marijuana
@@doughtymqan Marijuana was popular before religion became popular.
Zenpai not true lol
That where the Kennedy got there money
@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.
Earth without Booze, is an earth not worth living.
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.
For real!
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
Merry Christmas soothing voice actor weird history.
Fascinating historic tip. That was certainly weird - especially that drunk Kermit ;-)
Pabst's Blue ribbon wasn't an award, but instead a ribbon that used to on every bottle of the beer.
History makes a lot more sense when you imagine people were buzzing or drunk 24/7
1600's "We drink beer in lieu of water because its healthier"
Hipsters "Im drinking out of a jam jar"
In my defense, I sure as shit ain't paying for drinking glasses if my PBJ sandwich addiction already provides me plenty of containers.
Sean McDonald We’ve been drinking out of jars for over 150 years you yuppie
@@anarchyandempires5452 A one pint wide mouth mason jar costs $1.10.
@@vincivedivicilextalionas4036 $4 if it's full of Grape jelly.
There would be no Jim Lahey without booze. That would be a shame. Rip John D.
And I quote the great Homer Simpson( Alcohol the cause of and answer to all life’s problems) so true!!
Cause and solution
Prohibition created a breed and creed that lives to this day
When I drink a lot I start to text my self.
I don’t remember commenting this I was probably drunk 🥴
Michael Perez heh, nice
😂😂😂
Both of my grandfathers used to brew their own beer during prohibition using baker's yeast to ferment it.
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
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
your video is a well made, balanced historical cocktail! cheers!
"When America started treating adults like adults again"
Hmm...seems we've forgotten again.
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 😅
@@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
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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
Well...nowadays...pretty much everyone is back to downing liquor, so I'd say Prohibition was a colossal waste of time, effort, and money...
Great video, I always look forward to your uploads!
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.
It seems that prohibition created more alcoholic beverages than it prohibited 😂
Merry Christmas yo!!
Merry Christmas to you sir Happy New year
Merry Christmas, I hope you have an amazing day and a happy New Year.
Merry Christmas! A good holiday beer is franziskaner weissbier give it a try!
@whozabcjc Ty sir
@whozabcjc 🤣 NP
After a 12 hour shift I always watch these videos after work. Keep up the good work!
I work 12 hour shifts too, they can be brutal, these videos really do help you unwind
_1:53__ my brain started playing what'd i miss help-_
Head first, into the abyss
1 gallon apple juice/cider
2 lbs honey
1 cinnamon stick (after distillation)
Distillers yeast
...
Your welcome
I ❤️this channel.
Yes it makes history fun 😉
I love your channel, thanks for making videos!!!
We've forgotten what it's like to lose our liberty. We're paying for it now. AD 7/11/20
LMAO!.."no wonder the life expectancy was only 40 with these people" 😂😂
Literally nothing good came from prohibition
We got perspective
If you like the Kennedy family, JFK's father got rich from bootlegging during prohibition.
I quit drinking a few weeks ago. I feel great.
Cheers 🍻😎
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.
Mmm yes. A good video to watch while I'm currently *boozing* my way through the holidays.
*Merry Christmas nerds*
Homemade hooch (small batches) can be awesome for mixing cocktails. Haven't seen much of it the last two decades, though.
Paul revere looks like Jack black lmao
Wish you guys would've included Applejack as it's one of the most important liquors in American history
In Medford mass 😂 now I love my city. I was like wtf
Like, I know where my phone is when I'm drinking. Good one.
I love watching this channel because it has history
Me too, I love history!
Just leaving a comment coz i love beer
I wonder if the people that pushed for prohibition regretted it after witnessing the violence it created.
I don't think so
Some of them did. Enough to get it repealed.
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.
another prohibition in the usa & europe is a possiblity now /(-_-)\
will:e .k
I searched how I did not see how pls explain
25 cents a gallon in the 1820's is $550 today, idk if inflation was accounted for.
$0.25 was worth about 5 dollars in today's times I believe the Inflation rate was around -8%.
Nothing good ever comes from prohibition unless you consider developments in the refinement and production of the prohibited item.
Shout out from San bernadeno here
What type of person would think that putting rat corpses in a drink, a good idea.
Jeffrey Salvador probably someone who really wants to drink during prohibition. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
same people who first thought goat poop will make good coffee :D
The kind missing some teeth, and can shred on a banjo lol
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.
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!
8:12 -> "Its" not "it's". The former is a possessive pronoun (like "his" or "her"). The latter is a contraction of "it is" (like "he's" is a contraction of "he is").
Anyone mind telling me who this guy voicing this video is? I want to see if he has a solo career. Every weird history video I click and open makes me excited when I hear the deep witty one liners.
It's James Earl Jones
Did Alexander Hamiltom stop the Whiskey Rebellion with song and dance? 😂
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.
please do a video on the history of absinthe!
"Whats your name man?"
3:40
YeEzter Alexander Hamilton, my name is Alexander Hamilton.
There's a million things he hasn't done...but just you wait.
Your voice sounds like a more baritone version of Stephen Colbert. Great video bro.
Colonial ale was not bland.probaly way more flavourful than most of today's brews.
Crown Royal, Canadian Mist and Budweiser was my drinks of choice. I was thinking about getting a pint of Crown for old times sake. It would probably last me a year+.
I raise my pint and duly say MERRY CHRISTMAS and a BOOZY night to all!!!
I’m from San Bernardino county so its cool we get mentioned.
I'm a 6th generation Moonshiner and I say _drink em all_
I TEXT WHEN I DRINK!?!?!?
SIR. I MAKE SURE MY PHONE IS OFF WHEN I DRINK PAST THE SECOND
Nothing good comes from infringement of rights. ❤️✌🏼🙏🏻🇺🇸
Luke Bogacik I agree wholeheartedly
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.
This video makes me think of the song (alcohol) by Brad Paisley. (And now I wanna listen to it.) 🍻
Merry Christmas Weird History
"imagine a world without booze, there'd be no animal house"😂😂😂
Prohibition was stupid and it ddnt stop people drinking 🍷🍸🍹🍺🍻🥂🥃🍾🍹🍺🍸🍻🍷🥂🥃🍾
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.
It actually increased alcohol consumption
Neither does setting the drinking age at 21
Prohibition of weed is also stupid and stops no one
@@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!
Lakeport honey. Just moved back home, i am broke as hell.lol good video
3:01 Paul Revere or Jack Black?
There's a show on Comedy Central that you can watch on Hulu now called Drunk History. The picture you saw is of Jack Black, but from a Drunk History episode of Paul Revere. You should definitely check it out if you're anything like me your end up laughing your ass off every episode, but more importantly it actually is a pretty educational show
Joel Spliff Beaudette i’ve seen that show actually lol i just never put that together
Ive been making booze since i was 14. Its a good thing.
Cheers and man you must have an interesting family