On a related note, it wasn't just water stored in casks on ships that was toxic, lots of water sources on land - particularly in towns and cities - was highly polluted with all sorts of quite unhealthy nasties. This was one reason for popularity of pubs and taverns throughout Europe.
On a related note, coffee shops helped start the industrial revolution. No longer were people drunk on booze, they could safely drink coffee and work and think better.
@@DiogenesOfCa Yes and no. People did drink a lot of ale but, during the day, it was usually in the form of "small ale", a very low alcohol content drink that was made after the malted barley had already been used to make the high alcohol content ale for drinking in the evening. Plus their drinking was spread out over the day, unlike modern drinking habits where people will binge large amounts in a couple of hours at a night club on the weekend. So people would have had a light "buzz" but wouldn't have been drunk to the point their judgement was impaired.
🇬🇷🇪🇺👋🏴☠️ Rum is byproduct of molasses? And molasses is byproduct of sugar Ouaou Amazing 👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋 I have drunk rum in the past 15€ the bottle 1.5 liter
I’ve done some relatively unscientific experiments with deliberately contaminated water and potable alcohols under my microscope. Alcohol is REALLY effective at sterilising water even at low concentrations. Like, not enough to really effect you one you build up a tolerance levels of concentration. I say this drunk as fuck on rum mind you
These videos are of such high quality, content-wise and presentation-wise with images, music and sound effects, that you deserve a better voice recording equipment! I find your voice and narrative style very good and enjoyable. If I could ask for one thing, it'd be better sound quality.
One other possible reason for them drinking rum was because alcohol relieves pains and aches. Not the least of which is dental pain. Beer and wine just don't have the same alcohol content to give faster numbing. Just a thought.
"Grog" made with Malibu coconut rum is a surprisingly refreshing drink And yes I decided to try grog while watching this video with the only rum I had in the house
1:54 This party-poopery by the Spanish crown is what led to the smuggling of Philippine native Alembic stills into Mexico, Hidden in the bowels of the galleons. The stills were then quickly smuggled from the port towns up into the hills in Mexico, and that eventually proliferated into more widespread agave spirits production & consumption. (Ie Mezcal & Tequila; Although only a tiny fraction of today’s production uses these small alembic stills )
Yes, that is correct. Originally the Filipino immigrants were making a coconut based liquor and after the Spanish banned it mezcal became the go-to cheap liquor.
@@ThePiratesPort Hi , yes . I have enjoyed pulque while traveling in Oaxaca. In the little towns they will just have a ‘pulqueria’ where everybody comes to fill their household jugs every few days :-) It’s pretty interesting stuff; low in alcohol and fairly unstable so it’s difficult to export very far from the production source. Very refreshing to drink! in that sense Kind of like a American-continent analog to Federweisser (sp) in Germany.
Nice! I live as an expat in Guerrero and same with the pulquerias up this way. In my experience its like rolling the dice because at times its like a beer and other times like hard liquor. They say it was given to people before they were sacrificed, but i dont know if it would help with the nerves or not.
🇬🇷🇪🇺👋🏴☠️ Rum is byproduct of molasses? And molasses is byproduct of sugar Ouaou Amazing 👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋 I have drunk rum in the past 15€ the bottle 1.5 liter
If y'all ever come down to Louisiana in the late Summer/early Autumn (like around right now), y'all can get some sugarcane and chew on peeled pieces to suck the juice, a delicious old-fashioned tropical treat.
I love this channel, great production and excellent choice of topics. If you get the chance I’d love to see a video on pirates from other areas, such as Asia and the Middle East. Zheng Yi Sao is a fascinating tale often overlooked. Keep up the cool pirate videos and good info.
🇬🇷🇪🇺👋🏴☠️ Rum is byproduct of molasses? And molasses is byproduct of sugar Ouaou Amazing 👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋 I have drunk rum in the past 15€ the bottle 1.5 liter
Got me excited when Robert Louis Stevenson was mentioned, but dashed my hopes when it was to reference Treasure Island. Kidnapped is where his pirates really shine, also The Master of Ballantrae but far less so there
Alcohol being one of my favorite parts of piracy I didn’t expect I’d learn anything new here but as always I did! I had no idea that the man in charge of alcohol distribution onboard a ship was called a “purser.” That makes “Pussers” brand rum make much more sense.
I gave Oakum as our "Word of the day" to my wife the other day. She didnt know it. I only recently learned it. Possibly from this channel or research ignited by this channel.
I'm not an expert on pirates but here in Australia in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, the main currency amonst the British population was in fact rum, wIth the term "rum" also including wine and brandy
I read somewhere that cheap bootleg rum was distilled using lead pipes instead of copper, so lead poisoning was a common side effect. Uncontrollable rages, and decaying teeth.
We pirates love our Rum! When I review rum on my channel I do it from the stand point of a 16th, 17th or even 18th century Pirate’s point of view. The rum of those centuries that Pirate’s actual drank was more similar to clear Overproof rum vs Capt Morgan Spiced Rum. They didn’t worry about aging statements from the distiller on the rum barrels! 😂 Your so right, Pirates drank anything with alcohol in it! Enjoyed your video as always!
Wouldn't the rum dehydrate you if that's all you drank on a ship? I assumed that they had water on the ship but frequently drank rum whenever they drank liquor
This does not sound right. In Australia, rum was the primary drink in a place without sugar production in the same period. It became almost currency. When the authorities clamped down, it led to the rum rebellion, which led to the overthrow of the government.
The rum rebellion was in 1808, almost 100 years after the golden age of piracy had ended. In fact, the penal colony hadn't even been ESTABLISHED until 1788 which is far after the 1725 end of the golden age of piracy. The rum they were getting came from India and not the Caribbean.
It's probably safer to say they drank rum for the same reason people drink rum today. Because they wanted to get drunk. While water at the time wasn't always safe people wouldn't have been drinking rum to hydrate themselves. Alcohol is a diuretic (it makes you urinate more than usual) and distilled spirits like rum will actually make you lose more fluids than you take in. The headaches and nausea from a hangover are because you're dehydrated. They might not have understood the mechanism but they would have understood the results. If they were trying to hydrate themselves safely, they would more likely have turned to soups, stews and porridges or small ale/beer (a very low alcohol content version of the drink) as all of these have to be boiled during the preparation. Again, they might not have understood the mechanism but they would have known from experience that those fluids were less likely to give them the "grippe".
Rum in Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries tastes either like slightly aged white wine or grape-based vodka based on my experience. All hail rum, ron, and rhum agricole!
It would be nice with some longer videos. With 5 minute shorts, as soon as you start settling into the environment and understanding, its over. Its a lot of work to source material, information, put everything together, but its a small critique. thanks for the content
Being of Barbadian descent, rum is the most well represented spirit in my liquor cabinet. From Malibu (yeah, I know) & Tortuga banana rum, both straight from the freezer, to Havana Club, Appleton Estates, Mount Gay, Bicardi and many others have found their way into my glass.
Because it's not pure alcohol, it was cut with water. People also get about 20% of their water from food. It was certainly not a healthy lifestyle but it didn't kill them.
I do like this channel for its interesting Short and informative content however it also reminded me that during the height of the royal navy many sailor's came down with scurvy due to vitamin deficiencies and in order to prevent this the British government gave the limes...and that my swashbuckling buccaneer friends Is where the derogatory term limey came from
🇬🇷🇪🇺👋🏴☠️ Rum is byproduct of molasses? And molasses is byproduct of sugar Ouaou Amazing 👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋 I have drunk rum in the past 15€ the bottle 1.5 liter
I greatly enjoy a cheap rum such as Calypso. Simply because I find with higher quality rums, It has that sickly sweet molasses taste I just do not like.
In fact, rum typically contains minimal sugar content, if any at all (especially in the past when sugar was an expensive commodity). Each serving of rum (80 proof) boasts approximately 115 calories. While pirates were likely unconcerned with the health implications of their rum consumption being aware of such nutritional details is always beneficial. Source: www.worldrumguide.com/rum-dietary-faqs.html
Here's a fun fact, the Royal New Zealand Navy was the last navy in the world to have a rum ration, it ended on the 28th February, 1990
The RNZN has only one ship
Shameful.
Absolutely shameful.
For a salior to submit to the whims of a landlubber.
Shameful . . .
@@wufongtanwufong5579 And its cannons are incapable of firing twenty feet
Sad moment
I used to like the Anzac cognac
On a related note, it wasn't just water stored in casks on ships that was toxic, lots of water sources on land - particularly in towns and cities - was highly polluted with all sorts of quite unhealthy nasties. This was one reason for popularity of pubs and taverns throughout Europe.
On a related note, coffee shops helped start the industrial revolution. No longer were people drunk on booze, they could safely drink coffee and work and think better.
@@DiogenesOfCa Yes and no. People did drink a lot of ale but, during the day, it was usually in the form of "small ale", a very low alcohol content drink that was made after the malted barley had already been used to make the high alcohol content ale for drinking in the evening. Plus their drinking was spread out over the day, unlike modern drinking habits where people will binge large amounts in a couple of hours at a night club on the weekend. So people would have had a light "buzz" but wouldn't have been drunk to the point their judgement was impaired.
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Rum is byproduct of molasses?
And molasses is byproduct of sugar
Ouaou
Amazing
👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋
I have drunk rum in the past
15€ the bottle
1.5 liter
I’ve done some relatively unscientific experiments with deliberately contaminated water and potable alcohols under my microscope.
Alcohol is REALLY effective at sterilising water even at low concentrations. Like, not enough to really effect you one you build up a tolerance levels of concentration.
I say this drunk as fuck on rum mind you
Any spooky pirate stories for Halloween?
These videos are of such high quality, content-wise and presentation-wise with images, music and sound effects, that you deserve a better voice recording equipment! I find your voice and narrative style very good and enjoyable. If I could ask for one thing, it'd be better sound quality.
One other possible reason for them drinking rum was because alcohol relieves pains and aches. Not the least of which is dental pain.
Beer and wine just don't have the same alcohol content to give faster numbing.
Just a thought.
.. I tried that.. ended up drunk, miserable and still hurting.
🦷🔨🤬. 😝
This is so helpful. Thank you for making the videos 🎉
"Diesels love oil like a sailor loves rum."
"Yes, why is that Captain Ron?"
"Nobody knows!"
Great movie!
Classic
A pint of rum or a gallon of beer a day sounds like a pretty good ration to me! 🤣
Not for what you have to go thru to get it.
Chumming for Charley every day gets old on day one . . .
"Grog" made with Malibu coconut rum is a surprisingly refreshing drink
And yes I decided to try grog while watching this video with the only rum I had in the house
Malibu? Pppffft 😤😉
Well yeah. I don't drink a lot of it myself but the wife does nasty things for me when she drinks it so I like to keep a bottle in the house.
@@josephthomas8318 ha you sir are the author of two great comments here
A small price to pay
found ur channel recently, this stuff is very interesting! thank you for making these videos.
1:54
This party-poopery by the Spanish crown is what led to the smuggling of Philippine native Alembic stills into Mexico, Hidden in the bowels of the galleons.
The stills were then quickly smuggled from the port towns up into the hills in Mexico, and that eventually proliferated into more widespread agave spirits production & consumption. (Ie Mezcal & Tequila; Although only a tiny fraction of today’s production uses these small alembic stills )
Yes, that is correct. Originally the Filipino immigrants were making a coconut based liquor and after the Spanish banned it mezcal became the go-to cheap liquor.
@@ThePiratesPort
The coconut sap liquor is called ‘lambanog’, & while not that popular anymore, it is still produced in the Philippines:-)
Cool! Have you heard of pulque btw? It is much older than mezcal and tequila and comes from fermenting the sap of the agave.
@@ThePiratesPort
Hi , yes . I have enjoyed pulque while traveling in Oaxaca. In the little towns they will just have a ‘pulqueria’ where everybody comes to fill their household jugs every few days :-)
It’s pretty interesting stuff; low in alcohol and fairly unstable so it’s difficult to export very far from the production source. Very refreshing to drink!
in that sense Kind of like a American-continent analog to Federweisser (sp) in Germany.
Nice! I live as an expat in Guerrero and same with the pulquerias up this way. In my experience its like rolling the dice because at times its like a beer and other times like hard liquor. They say it was given to people before they were sacrificed, but i dont know if it would help with the nerves or not.
New listener and REALLY enjoying you work. Well researched and delivered.
Love this channel, would like to see a deep dive on sea monsters and tall tales of this age of sailing :)
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Rum is byproduct of molasses?
And molasses is byproduct of sugar
Ouaou
Amazing
👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋
I have drunk rum in the past
15€ the bottle
1.5 liter
Rum keeps well in a barrel and it's high ethanol content killed cholera.
Dammit this channel needs like 100 uploads so i can put it on while i sleep 😂
If y'all ever come down to Louisiana in the late Summer/early Autumn (like around right now), y'all can get some sugarcane and chew on peeled pieces to suck the juice, a delicious old-fashioned tropical treat.
In my case it would be go up to Louisiana, i am south of you guys ☺️
Thank you for keeping this wonderful channel going 👍
Good question, waiting!
I love this channel, great production and excellent choice of topics. If you get the chance I’d love to see a video on pirates from other areas, such as Asia and the Middle East. Zheng Yi Sao is a fascinating tale often overlooked. Keep up the cool pirate videos and good info.
One day i will get to it! Thank you very much too i am glad you enjoy the videos
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Rum is byproduct of molasses?
And molasses is byproduct of sugar
Ouaou
Amazing
👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋
I have drunk rum in the past
15€ the bottle
1.5 liter
Why is the rum. Always gone.
The content on this channel is on par or better than any other history content on RUclips.
Your channel should have 100× as many viewers
thank u so much, this helps a lot
Underrated video
Thanks!
Yo ho yo ho
A bottle of rum for me
Got me excited when Robert Louis Stevenson was mentioned, but dashed my hopes when it was to reference Treasure Island. Kidnapped is where his pirates really shine, also The Master of Ballantrae but far less so there
The words rum and the words death, mean the same thing to you.
Слова «ром» и слова «смерть» означают для вас одно и то же.
Anyone from Phonk walk?
Great content as usual, just need more regular vids
Thanks, but confused about the regular thing.. my videos are every other Saturday.
@@ThePiratesPort I think he meant "more frequent!"
@@ThePiratesPort every day twice a day is what we want. Jk just keep what your are doing, you make exemplary content.
What shall we do with a drunken sailor x3
Alcohol being one of my favorite parts of piracy I didn’t expect I’d learn anything new here but as always I did! I had no idea that the man in charge of alcohol distribution onboard a ship was called a “purser.” That makes “Pussers” brand rum make much more sense.
Love the channel!
Right on! A great way to start the weekend 😎
When building ships, how did they get the planks to adhere & hold water?
Pirates didn't build ships, they stole them. But planks were attached with nails and caulked with tarred fiber called oakum.
I gave Oakum as our "Word of the day" to my wife the other day. She didnt know it. I only recently learned it. Possibly from this channel or research ignited by this channel.
@@ThePiratesPort thank you 👍
But why's the rum gone?
I'm not an expert on pirates but here in Australia in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, the main currency amonst the British population was in fact rum, wIth the term "rum" also including wine and brandy
And they actually had a rebellion when they were denied their rum. It was called the rum rebellion.
Wooo New Pirate Content!
I read somewhere that cheap bootleg rum was distilled using lead pipes instead of copper, so lead poisoning was a common side effect. Uncontrollable rages, and decaying teeth.
We pirates love our Rum! When I review rum on my channel I do it from the stand point of a 16th, 17th or even 18th century Pirate’s point of view. The rum of those centuries that Pirate’s actual drank was more similar to clear Overproof rum vs Capt Morgan Spiced Rum. They didn’t worry about aging statements from the distiller on the rum barrels! 😂 Your so right, Pirates drank anything with alcohol in it! Enjoyed your video as always!
Yep, very little time spent aging in those days.
@@ThePiratesPort 😂😂😂
Keep up this Pirate content and you have my Sub.
Arrrrrr....well done matey
Really interesting information here!
Thanks Gary!
Absolutely love watching your videos extremely entertaining and informative
Thanks Jason!
Wouldn't the rum dehydrate you if that's all you drank on a ship? I assumed that they had water on the ship but frequently drank rum whenever they drank liquor
This does not sound right. In Australia, rum was the primary drink in a place without sugar production in the same period. It became almost currency. When the authorities clamped down, it led to the rum rebellion, which led to the overthrow of the government.
The rum rebellion was in 1808, almost 100 years after the golden age of piracy had ended. In fact, the penal colony hadn't even been ESTABLISHED until 1788 which is far after the 1725 end of the golden age of piracy. The rum they were getting came from India and not the Caribbean.
@@ThePiratesPort point taken, but it shows that rum was a preferred drink of the English masses not just in the Caribbean
Over 100 years later. It was developed in the Caribbean. That was the point of the video.
It's probably safer to say they drank rum for the same reason people drink rum today. Because they wanted to get drunk. While water at the time wasn't always safe people wouldn't have been drinking rum to hydrate themselves. Alcohol is a diuretic (it makes you urinate more than usual) and distilled spirits like rum will actually make you lose more fluids than you take in. The headaches and nausea from a hangover are because you're dehydrated. They might not have understood the mechanism but they would have understood the results.
If they were trying to hydrate themselves safely, they would more likely have turned to soups, stews and porridges or small ale/beer (a very low alcohol content version of the drink) as all of these have to be boiled during the preparation. Again, they might not have understood the mechanism but they would have known from experience that those fluids were less likely to give them the "grippe".
Rum in Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries tastes either like slightly aged white wine or grape-based vodka based on my experience.
All hail rum, ron, and rhum agricole!
Amazing how the Caribbean still has a culture of drinking rum.
Bundaberg rum is still fermented from molasses. Good Australian rum.
It is. It quickly became my favourite rum when i visited Australia. I would say it is the best rum i have tasted. And Australians love it.
It would be nice with some longer videos. With 5 minute shorts, as soon as you start settling into the environment and understanding, its over. Its a lot of work to source material, information, put everything together, but its a small critique. thanks for the content
Whys the rum gone?
When the name of the channel implies that they drank port, but the video talks about rum...
How did people stay hydrated drinking alcohol instead of water? After a few beers, I'm thirsty and after a few more, I'm dehydrated.
Lower alcohol content , and it was watered down . You couldn't just get easy clean drinking water then, especially not on a ship
Pirates drank rum for the same reason, I do: It's quite tasty, especially Captain' Morgan's version of spiced rum!
It wouldn't have been like modern rum. More like a molasses based moonshine with very little (if any) aging.
I drink rum because im a functioning alcoholic with chronic pain from nerve damage. So far my favorite is havana club
Being of Barbadian descent, rum is the most well represented spirit in my liquor cabinet. From Malibu (yeah, I know) & Tortuga banana rum, both straight from the freezer, to Havana Club, Appleton Estates, Mount Gay, Bicardi and many others have found their way into my glass.
Thanks for the info
The real question is why I’m not drinking rum
What I never understood is, alcohol dehydrates you, so how could they survive only on alcohol?
Because it's not pure alcohol, it was cut with water. People also get about 20% of their water from food. It was certainly not a healthy lifestyle but it didn't kill them.
I read that Capt. Henry Morgan drank overproof rum to stave off fever.
Very interesting!!!
Thank you!
Pirates can Look Intimidating. I wonder if they got along at the Taverns. Or were known for Barfights. ?
I’d imagine, just like today, some were known for being bad drunks and others were good natured.
reality checks are always appreciated. ethanol, in its many forms, seems to be the currency of necessity in the history of humanity.
Drinkin rum at 6am makes you a Pirate ☠️
Not an alcoholic
I do like this channel for its interesting Short and informative content however it also reminded me that during the height of the royal navy many sailor's came down with scurvy due to vitamin deficiencies and in order to prevent this the British government gave the limes...and that my swashbuckling buccaneer friends Is where the derogatory term limey came from
I drank 3/4 of a Bacardi handle and was drunk and sick the next day and sick the day after that, no wonder they didn’t drink it that much
Have you ever had rum?
Stupid question. It is not physically possible to replace your daily need for water with alcohol. So if the water is poisoned what did they drink?
Medieval, etc Europeans only drinking alcohol is a meme.
But the real question is. Did they drink MEGA PINTS??????? ☠️
I absolutely believe that they did.
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Rum is byproduct of molasses?
And molasses is byproduct of sugar
Ouaou
Amazing
👋🏴☠️🇪🇺🇬🇷🏴☠️👋
I have drunk rum in the past
15€ the bottle
1.5 liter
Because they had rum?
I greatly enjoy a cheap rum such as Calypso. Simply because I find with higher quality rums, It has that sickly sweet molasses taste I just do not like.
Cause they love Soca Music
Fa true.
What about grog? GROG GROG GROG!!!
It wasn’t invented until the 1740’s
Good video if you can change the quality of your audio this video will be perfect
Because they didn’t have access to gin. 😉
I'm a pirate but like malt liquor.
People always forget the Irish were slaves too.
That way they could sing yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
It's because the water back then was terrible.
Please consider expanding your work to piracy around the world.
I'm sorry no ones drinking a gallon of rum everyday
Yeah, it was a half pint. Beer was given by the gallon.
@@ThePiratesPort still impressive just not suicidal lol
A.sea water drives you madder being a pirate and B.they had no desalination plants? That's all folks!!
Now pirate get to carry on until the full force of the military Coast guard Navy or Marines or Marina police intervenes
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It wasn't rum it was grog. A mix of rum and water.
No it wasn't grog. That wasn't done until 1740.
@@ThePiratesPort yes you said that after I commented. My bad.
Rum is Extremely Unhealthy and full of Sugar and Calories !
In fact, rum typically contains minimal sugar content, if any at all (especially in the past when sugar was an expensive commodity). Each serving of rum (80 proof) boasts approximately 115 calories. While pirates were likely unconcerned with the health implications of their rum consumption being aware of such nutritional details is always beneficial.
Source: www.worldrumguide.com/rum-dietary-faqs.html
I think you got it wrong, Rum made from sugarcare, but it one of the most sugar free alcohol in the world.
@@Danie678 you must be stupid american ,rum is unhealhty go and enjoy drinking rum every day and prove me right when your liver die inside you !