How Did Humans Invent Alcohol?

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  • @kenichiotaku3693
    @kenichiotaku3693 4 года назад +288

    4:47 reference to Nord Mead by Miracle of Sound?

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 года назад +36

      Hell yes!

    • @Wertsir
      @Wertsir 4 года назад +10

      Now that’s a next level reference. Level 2, to be exact.

    • @aydidchow7523
      @aydidchow7523 4 года назад +10

      But did you get the Faun - Tanz mit Mir reference at 11:56?

    • @kenichiotaku3693
      @kenichiotaku3693 4 года назад +1

      @@aydidchow7523 I bet I would have if I knew Faun-tanz mit mir beforehand.

    • @jacktheyeager6174
      @jacktheyeager6174 4 года назад

      Kenichi Otaku wut

  • @AbnormalAxis
    @AbnormalAxis 4 года назад +396

    I live on a 100 acre ranch in Texas. I have family of deer that live on my land and depending on how much hunting is going on in the surrounding ranches, there are 8-20 in my pasture each morning. When my fruit trees are done and I have picked all I need for the season, the deer come in and eat the rotting fermented fruit, get drunk and pass out. I have pictures of me standing right on top of 15 deer passed out, legs in the air snoring. It doesn't seem too far of a stretch to realize how humans found alcohol. Even Cro magnon and Neanderthal made drinking bowls found in their caves.

    • @TheChadPad
      @TheChadPad 4 года назад +21

      That's hilarious!! Amazing, nature knows best

    • @onemoremisfit
      @onemoremisfit 4 года назад +30

      Next time see if you can put party hats on them and get a photo of that.

    • @elitepenmanshipwars
      @elitepenmanshipwars 3 года назад +30

      I've seen elephants and baboons drunk on amarula fruits here in Africa. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen😂😂😂

    • @CineSolutions
      @CineSolutions 3 года назад +8

      too funny to not be real. Go Texas!

    • @28ebdh3udnav
      @28ebdh3udnav 3 года назад +3

      You gotta make a video with pics please

  • @whatsanenigma
    @whatsanenigma 4 года назад +901

    "Not an alcoholic, just German" seriously belongs on a tee shirt.

    • @atklm1
      @atklm1 4 года назад +58

      Sounds just like "I'm not gay, I'm British!" xD

    • @NoName-ms8jb
      @NoName-ms8jb 4 года назад +46

      I’m not a terrible driver, I’m just Russian.

    • @MrReallogs
      @MrReallogs 4 года назад +18

      AA stands for alcoholic Australian.

    • @vondamn9943
      @vondamn9943 4 года назад +8

      I must have German ancdstors

    • @childrenofthesun471
      @childrenofthesun471 4 года назад +9

      Started drinking since 15. Welcome to poland this is normal

  • @kckdude913
    @kckdude913 4 года назад +211

    The pulque drink from Mexico mentioned in the video is the drink the Spaniards would distill when they ran out of brandy. This distilled product is what became known as tequila.

    • @MsJubjubbird
      @MsJubjubbird 4 года назад +18

      Thank god for them running out of brandy

    • @Bryan-bd5kc
      @Bryan-bd5kc 3 года назад +5

      But didn't the Aztecs drinked mezcal the predecessor of tequila

    • @kckdude913
      @kckdude913 3 года назад +5

      @@Bryan-bd5kc mezcal is also a distilled spirit, and distillation didn’t exist in Mexico until the arrival of Europeans.
      I don’t know of mezcal came before tequila. It’s possible that the first tequila was very different from both mezcal and tequila, and then diverged but that’s just a wild guess on my part.

    • @Bryan-bd5kc
      @Bryan-bd5kc 3 года назад

      @@kckdude913 mezcal was around before the europeans came imma assume it was a different shitty variant back then from what I know the Spanish banned it during their rule that's how tequila was created and 30 years tequila wasn't the popular drink until Americans started advertised it

    • @coleparker
      @coleparker 2 года назад

      Actually Pulque was drunk by MesoAmericans along with spiced Chocolate prior to the Spanish.

  • @l.u.i.s._.8452
    @l.u.i.s._.8452 4 года назад +424

    Germanic tribes: *drinks beer*
    Romans: *disgusted in wine noises*

    • @dennisbuskenstrom9291
      @dennisbuskenstrom9291 4 года назад +18

      The vodka belt: Please hold my vodka...

    • @redcape2184
      @redcape2184 4 года назад +16

      *Balkan slavs take a sip of rakija*

    • @hawlitakerful
      @hawlitakerful 4 года назад +5

      No matter where you stand on the alcohol type....we gabe the world pants....probably because pockets on pants makes it easy to carry beer around
      But pants nonetheless

    • @l.u.i.s._.8452
      @l.u.i.s._.8452 3 года назад

      @@zefjiojzeffzejiojiozef9009 hehe

    • @GeneralKenobiSIYE
      @GeneralKenobiSIYE 3 года назад +1

      Romans: *[Gags in Vino]*

  • @kyedamant1323
    @kyedamant1323 4 года назад +650

    Uniting Germany: drinking beer

    • @iamarealhuman6359
      @iamarealhuman6359 4 года назад +8

      I thought you were dead

    • @dirkdigler595
      @dirkdigler595 4 года назад +15

      Yep they started the 3rd Reich in a pub . Just like any successful organization.

    • @neptuneseye7832
      @neptuneseye7832 4 года назад +2

      How to make Germans mad?
      Drink Radler infront of them

    • @Свободадляроссии
      @Свободадляроссии 3 года назад

      @@neptuneseye7832 How dare you even mention the name

    • @jochemajendouz9271
      @jochemajendouz9271 3 года назад +1

      We prefer Germany when not united.
      Greetings,
      The Netherlands,
      Belgium,
      Poland,
      France,
      The Jews,
      Etcetera

  • @HistoryScope
    @HistoryScope  4 года назад +192

    I HATE April 1st videos because they range from slightly funny to very annoying, in my opinion. This is my version of an April 1st video. I hope you guys like it!
    That great moment when your props are both drinkable and tax deductible.
    Ps, I had originally planned to have accurate cups, flagons, etc for this video... But the quarantine made it impossible for me to buy them in time. So I had to do with what I had.

    • @noob282butreal
      @noob282butreal 4 года назад +6

      History Scope nice

    • @Platypus_Warrior
      @Platypus_Warrior 4 года назад +4

      I couldn't dislike because it's so well made and instructive but the video is too bias in my opinion.
      The benefits you claim are only for those who can really drink moderately. Overall alcohol kills much more than it saves. It is considered a hard drug because of the strong addictive power and destruction it can have. The same religion who identifies wine as god's blood is also the one who created AA.
      I am personally addicted to alcohol like many others and I wish I had never touched it.

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 года назад +12

      @@Platypus_Warrior Hence why I did mention that people who won't suffer from addiction have health benefits.
      Alcohol addiction, as far as I know (you probably know better than I) happens very quickly with people just drinking a few drinks per week. I wasn't talking about those people. So I was excluding all the people who suffer from alcohol abuse, from the weekly binge drinker at college parties, to people who drink to forget mental or physical pain.
      You are absolutely right that the health benefits are far far far smaller than the drawbacks for a lot of people.
      And also an interesting note is that throughout history most alcohol beverages were safer not just because it contained alcohol, but because boiling water was part of producing the drink. And it was the boiling of water that killed off the diseases more than the alcohol did.

    • @redcoat4348
      @redcoat4348 4 года назад

      You should've added a section about how certain groups are stigmatized as having a reputation for alcoholism (Irish, Native Americans, etc.)

    • @redcoat4348
      @redcoat4348 4 года назад

      +Jeremy Lopes Alcoholic drinks were considered safer at the time because of the fact that water was boiled in the creation of making it and that alcohol itself is an antiseptic of sorts.
      Also I'd add that Catholics believe that wine BECOMES God's blood when communion is given, and it's not until it's blessed by a priest and enters the mouths of those receiving communion that it becomes considered such, otherwise it's just wine. Same thing with communion wafers, after being blessed and being given to a practitioner, it's considered to be the body of Christ. Protestants (and possibly Orthodox, I'm not too sure on the latter) are less literal in their interpretation of communion, and believe that no transubstantiation of the bread and wine takes place, except a metaphorical one.

  • @TheBrownHero
    @TheBrownHero 4 года назад +91

    What a coincidence, I'm drinking this while drunk

    • @beauzxcvb
      @beauzxcvb 4 года назад +1

      😂

    • @Man-fp8vp
      @Man-fp8vp 4 года назад +5

      What a coininkydink, I’m drunking this while drink

    • @Nightwalker973
      @Nightwalker973 4 года назад

      I'm trying to cure up my hangover with more beer

  • @pjmathison9787
    @pjmathison9787 4 года назад +348

    Anyone else missing the pub

    • @mistertestsubject
      @mistertestsubject 4 года назад +1

      oath

    • @Drinnan
      @Drinnan 4 года назад +3

      I wasn't going to drink today until I seen this video. Time for a drink

    • @seancondon5572
      @seancondon5572 4 года назад +4

      Know what? I am missing the cigar bar. ...think of a pub with a walk-in humidor stocked with cigars and you just about got the right of it.

    • @santocuban7086
      @santocuban7086 4 года назад +3

      @@seancondon5572 that sure does sound Lovely. Cigars and Rum are two of my favourite things in life.

    • @seancondon5572
      @seancondon5572 4 года назад

      @@santocuban7086 I rather some nice scotch. But to each his own. I think once I manage to secure new employment, I might celebrate with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and a Cuban Montecristo... benefits of being a mere 45 minutes away from Canada... hour if the traffic is heavy.

  • @steveskouson9620
    @steveskouson9620 4 года назад +276

    Scientifically, alcoholic drinks are not
    a problem. They are a solution.
    steve

    • @hawlitakerful
      @hawlitakerful 4 года назад +4

      Badabumnn tssss

    • @Dara-bo7sg
      @Dara-bo7sg 4 года назад +2

      Thank you Steve!

    • @funveeable
      @funveeable 3 года назад +1

      Every solution creates a new problem. A never ending cycle of humanity

  • @finnjons3792
    @finnjons3792 4 года назад +95

    "I invite you all to drink along"
    Bro it's only 9am right now. Calm down!

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 года назад +27

      Have faith my children! I believe in you!

    • @davewilliamson3723
      @davewilliamson3723 4 года назад +1

      The suns over the yardarm somewhere!

    • @yaoiis4life
      @yaoiis4life 4 года назад +3

      its 5 o clock somewhere.... its not like our ancestors gave a hoot :P

    • @hannahr2775
      @hannahr2775 4 года назад +3

      its 4:50am over here and I got a beer
      dont he a pussy

    • @jlang8213
      @jlang8213 4 года назад +1

      It's 4:00 pm somewhere...

  • @studentofhistory718
    @studentofhistory718 4 года назад +129

    "Remeber dont drink and drive" well we seem to be on the way to doing neither

  • @CaptainLicorice
    @CaptainLicorice 4 года назад +433

    I drink everything he says alcohol

    • @elmikeomysterio5496
      @elmikeomysterio5496 4 года назад +45

      I dink ervr timr he do wirdz

    • @TTalapia
      @TTalapia 4 года назад +20

      I got halfway thru the video before I realized we weren’t supposed to drink everytime he said alcohol 😂

    • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
      @Flint-Dibble-the-Don 4 года назад +3

      @@elmikeomysterio5496 wrrdzzz hrrrd

    • @coilednevada1383
      @coilednevada1383 4 года назад +10

      Were you drunk when you spelled that?

    • @CaptainLicorice
      @CaptainLicorice 4 года назад +9

      @@coilednevada1383 I don't remember watching this video so I think I was

  • @felixrn-kristoff156
    @felixrn-kristoff156 4 года назад +99

    *history scope starts sober*
    *ends the video drunk*

  • @austindarling9595
    @austindarling9595 4 года назад +28

    "no they weren't alcoholics, they are Germans." 😂🤣😂

  • @joshuahill4263
    @joshuahill4263 4 года назад +27

    "I'm not an alcoholic I'm just german". That sounds like something id tell my children

  • @saidsalim471
    @saidsalim471 4 года назад +55

    At the 0:58 mark: "Certain species of bees do not allow drunk bees to return to the hive."
    Drunk Bee: (Slurring) Iss... Isawright my gurls... I'm... uh... I'm doin' juzzzz fine!
    Bee's Friend: (Concerned) Seriously right now? Girl you're drunk, don't bother coming to work until you sober up, mmkay?

    • @nickv1008
      @nickv1008 4 года назад +5

      You ain't bringing that in my hive.

    • @rachaeldangelo1337
      @rachaeldangelo1337 4 года назад +5

      Bee be like im not drunk im just buzzin a little

  • @tonyhart97
    @tonyhart97 4 года назад +28

    Interesting factoid from a former tour guide in Dublin: the word "whiskey" comes from the Irish word for water, "uisce" (ishka). Not only that, but the modern day translation of "whiskey" into Irish (uisce beatha) translates literally to "water of life".

    • @Robert-er5wq
      @Robert-er5wq 2 года назад +1

      ... or Aquavit?

    • @anonymm3152
      @anonymm3152 Год назад +3

      And "vodka" comes from the Russian word "вода" (Voda) meaning water

  • @migizimaytwayashing5765
    @migizimaytwayashing5765 3 года назад +32

    As a First Nations from Canada, Manitoba, I know a lot about the history of the First Nations, mostly the Ojibway's. According to my ancestors, alcohol was seen as an evil spirit (similar to something like possession by demons). If you drank, you weren't welcome to any kind of ceremony as you're seen as corrupt and in need of help. It's still like this with my people. You're not allowed to drink and practice our way of life as you're spirit isn't in your body because of the alcohol.
    It sounds harsh but I promise you that it's not near as harsh in person. Also, there's way more to this but it's just a quick blurb because this is a RUclips comment.

    • @harmreductionman4474
      @harmreductionman4474 2 года назад +3

      Is that related to the (historically) high rates of alcoholism among indigenous peoples, and the way colonists used alcohol to try and control/weaken them? I know there were some tribes that consumed alcohol in some capacity, but IIRC it wasn't nearly as heavy or widespread as the European culture. Also I believe many native ethnicities have high rates of the same genetic alcohol metabolizing problem that Asian ethnicities do. I wonder if the belief that alcohol was an evil spirit (hehe, spirit) came from that dark history as a way to protect indigenous communities from excessive drinking

    • @noahcarver6072
      @noahcarver6072 2 года назад +2

      Unpleasant but true. I've heard of something in Islamic culture where alcohol is a word derived from "body eats spirit" ruh 'alk aljasad and something about ghouls, al-kuhl. And considering the unimaginable amount of suffering and lives and families ruined by alcoholism, something makes sense.

    • @missourimongoose8858
      @missourimongoose8858 2 года назад +1

      I wonder if that belief goes back to the mississippians who had trade connections with Mexico so most certainly had corn beer

    • @struck.kobe1999
      @struck.kobe1999 Год назад

      @@harmreductionman4474no… like they said it’s from their ancestors, long before colonizers. Also they aren’t “historically” alcoholics, it’s just more prevalent here (I’m from Canada) among indigenous peoples due to the poor treatment from white people

    • @CalaverasRC
      @CalaverasRC Год назад

      Funny cuz every Indian I know is an alcoholic

  • @yessure5291
    @yessure5291 4 года назад +22

    I'm proud to say that I never have had one drink in my life which is more than 60 years. I have spent the money on purchasing new motorcycles for my entertainment and fun

    • @Austiin_vdw
      @Austiin_vdw 3 года назад

      Any how is your life, may I ask?

    • @janobara6337
      @janobara6337 3 года назад +3

      Good for you my man! Alcohol ruins too many lives, avoiding it altogether is by far the best way of not letting it get a grip on you lol
      Have fun with your motorcycles!

    • @brianshook3289
      @brianshook3289 3 года назад +1

      What a loser!!!

    • @lucian5389
      @lucian5389 3 года назад +2

      U want a sticker or something?

    • @agnostic47
      @agnostic47 3 года назад +1

      A genuinely serious question. Why are you proud of that?

  • @futurehistory2110
    @futurehistory2110 3 года назад +25

    I'm glad to have willpower. I can't deny that alcohol relieves my anxiety and I am a very anxious person. All the same, I keep my alcohol consumption limited.

    • @Bryan-ed6ee
      @Bryan-ed6ee 2 года назад +1

      Alcohol and mental health do not mix. Please be safe.

  • @nymetswinws
    @nymetswinws 3 года назад +6

    Started the video sober, ended in a dumpster. Long live ethanol.

  • @thanosroussos4179
    @thanosroussos4179 4 года назад +3

    In Ancient Greece people used to drink except the normal wine(mixed with water to avoid getting drunk easily) a type of wine that they used to mix with sea water, it was called tethalassomenos oinos

  • @AlexTenThousand
    @AlexTenThousand 4 года назад +21

    Yeah, but how come friars seemed to almost always be also brewers? I can't take a step in the alcoholic beverages aisle of a supermarket without finding a brand of beer created by friars in the 13th century.

    • @mitchellsmith4690
      @mitchellsmith4690 4 года назад +5

      They didnt have wives to tell them not too...

    • @mitchellsmith4690
      @mitchellsmith4690 4 года назад +2

      @Aleksa Petrovic Friars are a species of monk or professed religious...celibate in Orthodoxy as well

    • @anthonyhayes1267
      @anthonyhayes1267 2 года назад +2

      Monasteries were often akin to communes or towns and tried to be self sufficient

  • @thievery228
    @thievery228 Год назад +5

    Babe wake up alcohol lore just dropped 🗣

  • @lvd8122
    @lvd8122 4 года назад +23

    4:51 that reference to the nord mead song came out of nowhere

  • @divideindustries7591
    @divideindustries7591 4 года назад +11

    Im still too young to drink but alcohol has always been an interesting topic for me.
    Hell i do stories and stuff like that and get my characters drunk all the time in midivel pubs lol

    • @v.k5417
      @v.k5417 3 года назад +6

      Avoid alcohol, never drink

  • @fishercat503
    @fishercat503 4 года назад +3

    My theory is that some neolithic bread baker left her breadmaking vessels to soak. After getting back to her pots she discovered it was fizzy and made you feel weird.

  • @kitt5418
    @kitt5418 4 года назад +13

    The way he poured that beer at the beginning made me physically cringe

  • @felixuchies4688
    @felixuchies4688 4 года назад +9

    The parallels with modern day drug problems is sad yet hilarious

    • @Top_Hat_Man
      @Top_Hat_Man 4 года назад

      Cigarettes And Achohol Are Drugs, Yet They Aren't Illegal.

    • @dunhillsupramk3
      @dunhillsupramk3 4 года назад +1

      the real problem is that ppl always blame alcohol or drugs when they do something shitty to get away from any punishment or backlash of their actions, this actually worked in the past and it still does with ppl who are insecure...
      for example a common example lets say that you have a business man (you know the type a complete jerk) who goes to work conference or whatever for a few days then return home to his wife (who has been nothing but loyal to him) next few weeks she notices something is off and goes to see a doctor to only find out she got a few STD/STI so she confronts her husband and he admits to it and blames it on the alcohol (condoms don't stop STDs/STIs) so the wife believes him and tells him to stop drinking and go to AA (after all she is putting in way too much work for him to be unfaithful so it must be the alcohol) and he just got away with being unfaithful..

  • @jackrose4284
    @jackrose4284 4 года назад +19

    Such pretty hands at 0:31🥵😍 edit: also this was made at around 3 :00 am so I don’t what’s going through my mode right now

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 4 года назад +8

    beautifully written, like most your other stuff, and I am glad there is premium contentout there made by by ESL speakers.
    just a suggestion, your voice clips sometimes and there are some nasty low frequency artefacts as well: you can normalise the voice track (a type of compression that takes the track's volume gain and makes it of a similar level all around) plus a low pass equalization filter around 100hz (some plugins even have a 'pop filter' preset).
    otherwise, great work, and you have a new subscriber in me

  • @johnnyzeee5215
    @johnnyzeee5215 3 года назад +3

    From land regulation for farming barley, to standardized recipes, to self - contained refrigeration, etc. the upward surge of humanity is completely related to beer.

  • @natwon633
    @natwon633 4 года назад +11

    You need to improve at pouring beer. I mean, yes it's a can, but you can always improve.

    • @martinarbe1
      @martinarbe1 4 года назад

      NatWon actually you have to pour it like that from a can because a can has higher CO2 than glass bottles

  • @gibbiesmalls1742
    @gibbiesmalls1742 4 года назад +34

    Im 16 and its Legal for me here in Germany 👍🏼😂

    • @billytheta9016
      @billytheta9016 4 года назад +2

      I'm 16 in Greece and technically its not legal but really it is I mean every bar will give you

    • @redcape2184
      @redcape2184 4 года назад +3

      @@billytheta9016 literally every Balkan country

    • @billytheta9016
      @billytheta9016 4 года назад +1

      @@redcape2184 true that's what I like about our balkan countries

    • @rhysjonsmusic
      @rhysjonsmusic 3 года назад +1

      Literally most of Europe

    • @blackmetalreki
      @blackmetalreki 3 года назад +1

      *meanwhile in America*

  • @vrare6178
    @vrare6178 4 года назад +3

    Shocking pour at the start mate, No Chance I'd let you serve me a pint of Carlton Draught

  • @Steve-tl7zo
    @Steve-tl7zo 4 года назад +5

    Humans did not "invent" alcohol, we discovered it.

  • @p0ti96
    @p0ti96 4 года назад +1

    Just found your Chanel today and with every video you get more sympathetic
    You had my sub at the Nord Mead reference :D

  • @artemis4779
    @artemis4779 4 года назад +13

    I didnt need subtitles for this, that probably says something about me

  • @leojanjgava1714
    @leojanjgava1714 4 года назад +1

    Amazing videos bro. This is just the start. 1 mil will come soon enough. Much love

  • @zaerzan9022
    @zaerzan9022 4 года назад +30

    This guy sounds like he's been drinking since he was 3

  • @mehrpooyakeyhanifard5917
    @mehrpooyakeyhanifard5917 4 года назад +2

    The Persian physician, alchemist, polymath and philosopher Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (854 CE - 925 CE) is credited with the discovery of ethanol.[116] The process later spread from the Middle East to Italy.[113][117] Production of alcohol from distilled wine was later recorded by the School of Salerno alchemists in the 12th century.[118] Mention of absolute alcohol, in contrast with alcohol-water mixtures, was later made by Raymond Lull in the 14th century.

  • @Zenmyster
    @Zenmyster 2 года назад +7

    I've always used the chicken/egg hypothesis. Someone was making bread and screwed it up, a day or two later, it was drinkable.
    Or, someone was prepping some grain to brew. It came out dry and could be baked.
    All this allowed different people to get together to drink beer and not get into too many fights with strangers.
    Which gives Society/Civilization

    • @davidsenra2495
      @davidsenra2495 Год назад +1

      I'm pretty sure beer actually pushed many people to fight with strangers throughout history tho 😬

  • @HDliketheTV
    @HDliketheTV Год назад

    Everytime this man proposes a toast I damn near DIE laughing.

  • @Man-fp8vp
    @Man-fp8vp 4 года назад +8

    “Certain species of bees do not allow drunk bees to return to the hive”
    Same guy, same

  • @therealleonidas229
    @therealleonidas229 4 года назад +5

    And the Irish and Scots Made Whiskeys and scotch whisky and moonshine plus lots of different Beers which they brought to the Americas

  • @uvbe
    @uvbe 4 года назад +53

    Me: *never drinks alcohol*
    Also me: *watches this entire video*

    • @gretam2150
      @gretam2150 4 года назад +3

      same

    • @evonneokafor
      @evonneokafor 4 года назад +1

      Never touched a drop.

    • @hello-friend990
      @hello-friend990 4 года назад

      What kinda life is that

    • @uvbe
      @uvbe 4 года назад

      @@hello-friend990 I'll probably try it some day. But I just don't feel like it tbh.

  • @itsjustnacho
    @itsjustnacho 4 года назад +1

    Gin and Genever are 2 different categories and have a very different taste. Genever taste malty with hints of juniper (from the malted grains used to make it, then it's infused with Juniper and other botanicals, and sometimes distilled another time), Gin (depending on the type) taste sweet, piney, citrus, has a great aroma, and is super refreshing.

    • @bruhngl
      @bruhngl Год назад +2

      If I'm not mistaken they were originally the same things but being primarily produced in two separate countries they evolved into different drinks over time.

  • @Shirazzikkdh
    @Shirazzikkdh Год назад +5

    Your videos are really great. Definitely love going back and watching the older ones occasionally too.

  • @anthraxmacabre5200
    @anthraxmacabre5200 Год назад

    “Dude, that monkey just ate a shit ton of rotten grapes. He started acted wild, man. I wonder what would happen if I did that..”

  • @txiabneeb
    @txiabneeb 4 года назад +7

    In my untrained eyes, your video is well researched and well presented. Alcohol, like religion, are not the bad element in our society, we, as an individual and as a group/culture, are those that made alcohol and religion to be bad. If alcohol would to be used in its moderation, we would not have such issue as prohibition here in the US, but, as we say in my heritage language of the Hmoob, our eyes are bigger than our stomach (greed) so we always consumed it more than needed to. Thanks!

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Год назад

      Moderation is difficult for people biologically wired to be addicted to it. Moderate use of heroin could be possible, I guess.

  • @elviscaragea4433
    @elviscaragea4433 2 года назад +1

    This channel is sooo good

  • @matthewlucas4142
    @matthewlucas4142 4 года назад +4

    I’m a patriotic American but the Germans absolutely boat race us when it comes to making beer. German beer has a combination of flavor and “cleanliness” (I’m no connoisseur so there may be a better way to say it) that we just can’t match. The downside is now I have to have my local wine shop special order Warsteiner every couple of weeks so it’s a little pricier than domestic but it’s worth it

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 2 года назад +1

    humans discovery of alcohol is even much older than agriculture.

  • @chemicaldemoneye
    @chemicaldemoneye 4 года назад +5

    watching this video at 7 AM.. time to crack one open boiiz

  • @LULUThaCannon
    @LULUThaCannon Год назад +1

    Love your videos man, CHEERS!

  • @Missle1001
    @Missle1001 4 года назад +17

    5:58 “China! How could you?” -Says 2020! 🦇 🇨🇳 🦠 😷

  • @samroxeva
    @samroxeva 2 года назад +1

    0:25 what a terrible pour 🍻

  • @Dancor99
    @Dancor99 4 года назад +7

    Great video, as always. Small thing about the Pirates i'd like to add/ ask about: I always thought pirates were associated with rum because alcoholic beverages were the only ones that didnt rot away after months on sea, -stored in wooden barrels. Water turns bad pretty quick in those barrels, so it was no option. Its the same thing with some english universities around that time, students were given Wine instead of water when there was no/not enough ground water for a well. The water just rots way to quickly when its stored in wooden barrels, Rum/Wine/Beer doesent.

    • @tateranus4365
      @tateranus4365 11 месяцев назад

      Yes and no, casks would rot often but they just accepted that they would lose a few, they would carry brandy or rum but would usually water it down.

  • @jorisspee
    @jorisspee 4 года назад +1

    Though i have seen a couple of your vids, drinking along some mead and sake, i was just shocked at seeing you drinking Brand at 0.19 (wich is fine ofc) only now realising you have got to be Dutch!

  • @Waschlack
    @Waschlack 4 года назад +3

    Die Nacht ist jung und der Teufel lacht, komm, wir schenken uns jetzt ein!
    I really appreciate your german, PROST!

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 4 года назад +1

    He didn't mention elephants and squirrels feasting on fermented apples (fruit).. those are some of the funniest videos I have ever watched in my life.

  • @ekowmayweather6139
    @ekowmayweather6139 4 года назад +6

    Great video! Also to be mentioned is the distillation of palm wine from the palm tree in sub Saharan Africa esp west Africa. It doesn't seem to have developed in other parts of the world.

  • @GigaSigmaChadOmega
    @GigaSigmaChadOmega 2 года назад

    biochemistry major here, the formation of alcohol is a solution to regenerate NAD+, which is added for glycolysis, a catabolic pathway that provides a net yield of 2 ATP, the energy source all living beings use. Alcohol fermentation is done to get quick access to ATP, due to the lack of oxygen intake, which wile led to the aforementioned anaerobic pathway.

  • @jadens4124
    @jadens4124 4 года назад +13

    Im surprised by how few subscribers you have, the content you put out is way to good. You should have at least a million

    • @JatPhenshllem
      @JatPhenshllem Год назад

      Not quite there, but give him a few years

  • @giannhsmp89
    @giannhsmp89 4 года назад +1

    you might forgot to mention the study in london that told us that the people near alcohol factories didnt get sick bu the plauge so they realized that the water was polluted and alcohol was microbe killer
    @History Scope

  • @patbelski
    @patbelski 4 года назад +4

    Great video! However, I have to correct you on the statement that alcohol is an ingredient. It is NOT an ingredient, that means that it is added. Alcohol is a result of the fermentation.

    • @memyself898
      @memyself898 4 года назад +1

      Correct. It is a byproduct of yeast consuming sugar.

  • @ericmathis4309
    @ericmathis4309 Год назад +1

    Ok, but calling ancient alcoholic rice brews “wine” is very inaccurate. Technically speaking, taking a grain and turning it into alcohol is SO much closer to making beer than taking a fruit and turning it into wine (which, I understand that it’s scientifically all “fruit,” though I’m operating off more of the distinction between a fruit just being a seed and the typical human use of a seed producing grass for my def. of grain)

  • @democracydignityhumanrights
    @democracydignityhumanrights 4 года назад +4

    I would argue the same stuff applies to the war on drugs. Does that mean we make every drug legal? I don’t know, maybe, maybe not, but what we do need is a massively different approach that’s more in line with the reality that people will always do drugs.

  • @chandlerstepina3947
    @chandlerstepina3947 4 года назад +1

    Literally cracked one right before the Video. Cheers!

  • @rajdeepvijayaraj4243
    @rajdeepvijayaraj4243 4 года назад +5

    Cheers my companions across the whole bloody world!!

  • @Zmx82
    @Zmx82 4 года назад +3

    If alcohol had a voice, it would be like the man voice in the video

  • @johnnybravo5726
    @johnnybravo5726 4 года назад +6

    6:27 I love the way he says "democratic"

  • @redfactionfanatic
    @redfactionfanatic 4 года назад

    No mention of matango aka palm wine? That shit starts fermenting almost immediately on its own

  • @Andromansis
    @Andromansis 4 года назад +11

    Ok. For had to pause the video when you started talking about "low quality alcohol" in the US causing problems. It wasn't the bootleggers causing people to go blind, it was the government mandating industrial ethanol be laced with certain chemicals and then a tonic company started putting Tricresyl phosphate into their tonic mixture.
    I have no idea what happened in the USSR and could not find information about it.

    • @luketroftgruben788
      @luketroftgruben788 4 года назад +1

      Or it also can be inexperienced still operators not dividing the liquor out to keep out methanol from the ethanol.

    • @LeviForWaifu
      @LeviForWaifu 3 года назад

      USSR was originally prohibitionist until Stalin did Stalinist things.
      Search up the Kraut video "How Vodka Ruined Russia"

  • @HardtechnoVictim
    @HardtechnoVictim 3 года назад

    quarantine has one good thing, i got time for interesting topics

  • @jackmichael7342
    @jackmichael7342 4 года назад +4

    There are two kinds of people in this world. 1. Worse invention ever 2. Best invention ever :)

  • @boogeymann6686
    @boogeymann6686 4 года назад +2

    Alcohol is both beloved and hated, but one thing is for sure no one will ever succeed in getting rid of it completely.

  • @frankx8739
    @frankx8739 4 года назад +4

    I once tried to make mead: ended up with a gallon of nail polish remover.

  • @MisanthropicOcellus
    @MisanthropicOcellus Год назад +2

    Already drunk, its how i found this video

  • @joris-rietveld
    @joris-rietveld Год назад +3

    I am also Dutch and lived in France for 2 years, working in forestry between Dijon and Geneva. And I worked with a guy who was 70, still cutting trees who only drank 2 coffee before work and then 2/3 rose before 12. Then eating 1.5 hours with some red wine, and some more rose in the afternoon, or beer if it was warm. I normally brought 3 litres of water when working in the forest, and was laught at, I tried to "integrate" a few times but wow the French can drink......

  • @anonlost5477
    @anonlost5477 4 года назад

    I have osteoarthritis
    Alcohol : hold on there, buckaroo

  • @joebaumgart1146
    @joebaumgart1146 4 года назад +4

    "What does it mean when there's a picture of a skull on the bottle?" "Good Stuff!"

  • @ninjascott559
    @ninjascott559 4 года назад +1

    Hey playboy. What do you think of the theory that the fermentation of alcohol is one of the things that sparked civilization and permanent settlement in early pre historic times. Like around Jerusalem/ Jericho early early Mesopotamia era? But I'm just a drunk you tube viewer commenting

  • @rayititoman
    @rayititoman 4 года назад +3

    I'm not an alcoholic! I'm German

  • @naimaahmed9730
    @naimaahmed9730 4 года назад +1

    Wonder what that hangover was like

  • @jpmnky
    @jpmnky 4 года назад +4

    Good work bro. All your videos are interesting as hell. I love how you break down everything into laymen terms.

  • @braydondixon1960
    @braydondixon1960 4 года назад

    Fucked up at the crib watching the history of alcohol

  • @gaviswayze9696
    @gaviswayze9696 4 года назад +8

    Very nice! I see that this idea had been…brewing in your head for a while!

  • @AndrewBrowner
    @AndrewBrowner 4 года назад +2

    how do we know beer in ancient Egypt or other regions was 1% abv? how could that be measured or even guessed at from their processes.. and if its true doesnt that eliminate it as a social lubricant/celebratory drink.. youd need to be downing liters an hour to get a buzz off of 1%abv

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 года назад +1

      We can recreate those processes and analyse the results. As well as chemical analyses of old alcoholic concoctions.

    • @AndrewBrowner
      @AndrewBrowner 4 года назад +1

      @@HistoryScope they still dont know how the pyramids or most ancient structures were built how are you gonna nail down the distilling/brewing process so precisely to know the ABV

    • @HistoryScope
      @HistoryScope  4 года назад +1

      We know exactly how the vast majority of the pyramids were made.
      And a chemical analysis is a lot easier to do than architectural.
      With architecture there are a lot of different ways to achieve the same result. With chemistry this isn't so easy. So once you have the equipment (which archaeologists found) one can simply recreate the process. And a chemical analysis is not that difficult to do. Humans do it all the time.

  • @GerSanRiv
    @GerSanRiv 4 года назад +6

    You get a like for mentioning pulque.

  • @paulaction5957
    @paulaction5957 4 года назад +3

    I'm drinking a Green Beacon Windjammer IPA. Awesome beer.
    Ps. 11am in lockdown.

  • @vincivedivicilextalionas4036
    @vincivedivicilextalionas4036 4 года назад +10

    This video gave me an excuse to drink at 4:30am, _Thank you_

  • @anshulparihar7376
    @anshulparihar7376 3 года назад

    17:12 I love that tea has the British flag pattern 😂

  • @metalmatt3431
    @metalmatt3431 3 года назад +3

    Absolutely SUPERLATIVE video bro!!! LOVED the depth of your historic insights : ) Cheers!

  • @jeffreygroff783
    @jeffreygroff783 4 года назад

    The incomplete Data gag was hilarious

  • @LAM_AUT_ECU
    @LAM_AUT_ECU 4 года назад +4

    1:48 Wouldn't that be a beer? I know people refer to fermented rice as "wine", but rice is a cereal, not a fruit plus those leaves you mention would be an equivalent to hops.

    • @charlie0008
      @charlie0008 4 года назад +3

      Rice is considered a grain.

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 4 года назад

      It's usually not fizzy like beer and they aren't made out of malted rice but koji inoculated rice. Koji being a kind of mold that saccharify rice's starch.

    • @memyself898
      @memyself898 4 года назад

      This is correct. There is no such thing as rice wine.

    • @memyself898
      @memyself898 4 года назад

      @@charlie0008 and beer is made from grain. wine from fruit.

  • @wutzerface77
    @wutzerface77 4 года назад

    Like the Limewire logo and Minecraft sugar cane you used here

  • @igie0525
    @igie0525 4 года назад +3

    No talk on sub-saharan African palm wine and locally distilled alcohol known as ogogoro or kiankian in Nigeria.

  • @PianoMelodicaDark
    @PianoMelodicaDark Год назад

    'Stop Making Bad Decisions and Open A History Book!!!' should be History Scope's official t-shirt copy!😀😀😀 (available on hoodies, hats, and messenger bags)