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"On the 17th of October, 1814, a wooden vat of fermenting beer burst at the Horse Shoe Brewery in London..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Background
03:16 - The London Beer Flood
07:19 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "What really happened in the London Beer Flood 200 years ago?" by Rory Tingle, published by The Independent, October 2014. Link: www.independent.co.uk/life-st...
► "This 1814 Beer Flood Killed Eight People" by Kat Eschner, published by Smithsonian Magazine, August 2017. Link: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
► "Remembering the big British beer flood of October, 1814 with brewing historian Martyn Cornell" published by CBC, October 2014. Link: www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/...
► "The London Beer Flood" by Christopher Klein, published by History.com, May 2023. Link: www.history.com/news/london-b...
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@WobblesandBean 10 месяцев назад

Considering how the iron bands slipping was apparently a common problem, it's astonishing how this didn't happen sooner.

@davidcox3076 10 месяцев назад

It would seem to be a red flag. But people probably got used to seeing them slipping and thought nothing of it.

@angelkilier 10 месяцев назад

There is always a first time. Rules and regulations then follow.

@ThatOpalGuy 10 месяцев назад

@@angelkilier and then the pushback against 'big goobermint' begins. and the foolish are swayed.

@davidhorn6008 4 месяца назад

10.4

@Liz-cmc313 10 месяцев назад

Disgusting how the owners in these situations are never held accountable.

@john-ic5pz 10 месяцев назад

ikr ... even back then we were weak, not having brought justice to them when the justice system is corrupt

@alexhobbs1208 10 месяцев назад

C A P I T A L I S M

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 10 месяцев назад

Man really just called people that got fucked by a flood of alcohol weak

@Ragetiger1 10 месяцев назад

Cause there was no way to prove that a slipped band, at the time, would result in a catastrophic failure of the vat.

@sandcat66 10 месяцев назад

One of them was probably the coroner

@ShinyHelmet 10 месяцев назад

Imagine holding a wake for a 2 year old that has died the night before, then being drowned in ale. Also scandalous that the company didn't have to pay out any compensation but actually got money back from the Government.

@drshoe8744 10 месяцев назад

And then stayed in Business another 107 years, the least they could have done was hand over the proceeds of their "Looky-Lou" fund.

@truecrimepodcasting 10 месяцев назад

“Act of god” ffs. More like “poor peoples’ lives are completely valueless”.

@LiqqaRoni-cx3tx 10 месяцев назад

Alcohol was quite valuable back in the days before the internet.

@angelkilier 10 месяцев назад

The truth is, no one knew this would happen. There wasn't really negligence from the owner. He and the workers were simply doing what they believed to be enough to the best of their knowledge. (ie find someone to fix it once the band slips) There was no similar accident prior thus no regulation regarding the vats of that size. They couldn't have foreseen or acted upon the issue any better, hence they were not responsible.

@noneofyourbusiness9369 10 месяцев назад

@@angelkilierThe only reason they weren't liable was it was built in a poor stricken neighborhood. They certainly would've paid out if it would've been rich. And the sure did realize there were dangers building them that large some even questioned if it was safe.

@CallMeAdam2023 10 месяцев назад

The "anonymous contributor" to the newspaper had a very valid point and their view of the situation makes perfect sense.

@trevorregay9283 10 месяцев назад

LOL!.....Most likely a competitor or Henry Meux's father...........if you think someone wrote that and was actually concerned about the people that died.....think again........its a sad and cruel world we live in............

@hkr667 10 месяцев назад

No it doesn't. It's just blaming the easiest thing they can think of. By that logic water towers should be banned too.

@ducatisti 10 месяцев назад

In some ways they were correct, but in reality beer was essentially a fresh food at that time, transport from distant breweries would have been excessively costly and could have resulted in beer tasting stale and old. Also the increased traffic of more large horse-drawn wagons would have created another hazard and decrease in the already poor quality-of-life for the local residents.

@trevorregay9283 10 месяцев назад

@@hkr667 LOL!.....not so sure water towers were located near overcrowded residential areas.....most likely they were built at the highest elevation and somewhat away from the populace......but hey, perhaps you kind of have a point though....

@byronmccall1554 10 месяцев назад

To put it into perspective, the average backyard swimming pool is about 20,000 gallons. So that's the equivalent of 20 swimming pools bursting and flooding all at the same time

@maeangel7574 10 месяцев назад

thank you for this visual, i was having a hard time truly grasping how much ale there was ❤

@KATHIESHOES 10 месяцев назад

Yes, that does create an excellent visual to better comprehend the tragedy.

@Palmit_ 10 месяцев назад

thanks, ... and uhm.. am UK and "backyard swimming pools" are rare here, or at least uncommon. Also, UK gallons are different to US gallons.. So.. can you give a bit more of a 'universal' contextual aid please?

@sage5296 10 месяцев назад

that's just for the initial vat, I think in total with all the smaller ones that broke from the force of the flood it was around 3 times that he said?

@byronmccall1554 10 месяцев назад

@@Palmit_ 1 gallons is 3.7 something l.iters so that would be... 1,512,000 liters The average car holds 50 liters of gas. So imagine the fuel tanks on 30,520 cars all emptying at the same time in one go.

@sister_bertrille911 10 месяцев назад

"Look for the helpers. There will always be helpers." I am always pleasantly surprised by how many good people there are in these emergencies, who risk their own safety to rescue their neighbors. As horrible as some of the businesses are in these videos, there's always at least one person who rises to the occasion.

@moteroargentino7944 10 месяцев назад

We're naturally empathetic and most people has good in them. Maybe we get numb when submerged in our daily routines, but when something like a disaster shatters our normality, we "wake up".

@all4one5 10 месяцев назад

Very true. The average person is a decent human being. It’s the sociopaths that crave power and wealth that are amoral and even evil at times

@letterfella 10 месяцев назад

Well put. A Mr Rogers quote? I'm sure he said the exact same thing and I carry that sentiment with me on the daily.

@vomeronasal 10 месяцев назад

Mr. Rogers was the man.

@sister_bertrille911 10 месяцев назад

@@letterfella Yes, the great Fred Rogers. He heard it from his mother. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--LGHtc_D328.html&ab_channel=AlexForsythe

@Zimin_Anatoly2000 10 месяцев назад

I thought after the flooding of Boston with molasses and the flooding of Dublin with whiskey, I wouldn't see anything like this anymore...

@WobblesandBean 10 месяцев назад

Human beings never learn. Never.

@iambiggus 10 месяцев назад

All we're missing is a Crushed by Hotdogs video.

@SakuraAsranArt 10 месяцев назад

Ikr! How does this keep happening? 😂

@mei4195 10 месяцев назад

aaaand flooding of São Lourenço with wine just happened

@soshiangel90 10 месяцев назад

oh yeah I forgot about the dublin whiskey....

@stevenstice6683 10 месяцев назад

Another bizarre flood was the Rockwood & Company Chocolate Factory fire in 1919. The factory caught fire, but while the New York Fire Department stopped the fire from spreading any further, they washed out a lot of molten chocolate onto the streets of Brooklyn. Luckily, nobody died from the fire or the flood, though truant officers had to haul local kids off to school.

@spiritmatter1553 10 месяцев назад

Mmm, 😋 chocolate 🍫!

@andrewc2202 10 месяцев назад

Great comment

@daffers2345 10 месяцев назад

The video and this comment both remind me of the Palmer factory explosion in March of 2023, though no fire or flooding was involved there. I am wondering if he'll cover it some day -- however, they're still under an inquest. Unfortunately, 7 people died in that tragedy.

@newshodgepodge6329 10 месяцев назад

I've never heard of that one.

@maryeckel9682 10 месяцев назад

@@daffers2345I never heard about that! Right during their Easter rush 😢😢

@saragrant9749 10 месяцев назад

This one sounds along the same lines as the Dublin Whiskey flood and the Boston Molasses flood. Just crazy stuff.

@katthawthorne1027 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for converting all of your measurements listed to Hamburger Units Per Eagle so that those of us raised in the US education system can understand.

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

Raised in the US what...? 😁

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

@@stevetournay6103 shee sayed "razed in US edumactional sisdum" ken you speek inglish?

@thatgoddamnpotato 4 месяца назад

"The flood was around a 5th of the miles converted to the weight of around 450 elephants"

@jajssblue 10 месяцев назад

"No harm whatsoever would ensue." I'll take foreshadowing for $400 Alex.

@classicmicroscopy9398 10 месяцев назад

We often hear of people drowning their sorrows in ale but literally drowning IN ale feels like a fate designed by a sadistic god with a dark sense of humor.

@ineedmilfs 10 месяцев назад

You could say they had a drink of a lifetime

@dreadnoughtus2598 10 месяцев назад

A sadistic god with a dark sense of humour? You mean like pedophile priests, that sort of thing. Yeah, funny that. 😂

@dottiegillespie8067 10 месяцев назад

Right!!

@brj_han 10 месяцев назад

The proof is drowning people attending a wake. What kind of irony is that?

@thamirivonjaahri6378 10 месяцев назад

@classicmicroscopy9398 especially considering majority of those who died were not even beer drinkers (children, women, etc...)

@SirAsdf 10 месяцев назад

4 children and a family who were mourning a different dead child sounds like the punchline to a really dark Black Adder bit, like the wave only went out of its way to kill who would be the most tragic.

@ShadyViserion 10 месяцев назад

As someone with a deep-seated fear of drowning, and a hatred for the smell of beer, this is quite literally my worst nightmare. **shudders**

@brianedwards7142 10 месяцев назад

I don't have any deep antipathy to the smell but I HATE hops. I'm Australian so not liking beer is practically treason but I much prefer a g&t.

@zakelwe 10 месяцев назад

@@brianedwards7142 You'd never drown what with all your corks hanging from your hat ! Seems very sensible, I will buy some bottles now just to add some to my English bowler hat !

@MaiAolei 10 месяцев назад

Took the words right out of my mouth.

@icarusbinns3156 10 месяцев назад

I don’t particularly like the smell of hops (really cheap pot) but… I rather enjoy the other beer-making smells. Especially the malt and barley being roasted! But I grew up barely a kilometer from a large brewery (Coors) and… it just brings back good memories. I do miss the scents. But trading them out for coffee? I can’t complain overmuch

@noxcure 8 месяцев назад

@@brianedwards7142An Aussie that doesnt like beer 🧐

@keelo-byte 10 месяцев назад

Just saw something on the news about a town in Portugal being flooded with wine.

@BlaqueT 10 месяцев назад

Ikr, what a coincidence!

@user-dk5do2xy9g 10 месяцев назад

I'm really, really impressed that our host was able to clearly enunciate the phrase "took the jury to the brewery."

@SakuraAsranArt 10 месяцев назад

Whoever that "friend of humanity" was, they were spitting facts!

@mskinetik 10 месяцев назад

It's 4:30 AM and my cat woke me up, 😭 now I can't fall asleep, so THIS video popped up and seems like the perfect thing to watch.

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

Perhaps your cat was asking you for a beer?

@christiangibbs8534 10 месяцев назад

What a horrible and unbelievable tragedy. As happens too often in these situations, children died, families were devastated, and homes were destroyed, but the selfish business owners, whose negligence caused it, got off without any consequences. In this case, the Government even bailed them out. Tragedy on top of tragedy.

@thereisnosanctuary6184 10 месяцев назад

1814

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

Travesty on tragedy, actually.

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

@@thereisnosanctuary6184 209 years ago, yes. Point?

@thereisnosanctuary6184 10 месяцев назад

@@stevetournay6103 Outrage has died down a tad.

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

@@stevetournay6103 How many people did you know from that time period?

@shortking-vp9vv 10 месяцев назад

The scale of that brewery is unfathomable to me. The size of the biggest vat, the number of barrels, the gallons of beer, the height of the wave… I just cannot even imagine.

@quillmaurer6563 10 месяцев назад

I'm sure modern factory breweries' vats are even larger, but they're made of materials that can safely support the load. As for the scale of the factory as a whole, I live not too far from the Coors brewery in Golden, Colorado, that complex (multiple buildings) is about a mile and a half long along the narrow valley between two mountains, some of the buildings are I'm guessing around 8 stories tall, and there's an entire rail yard dedicated to the operation.

@eywine.7762 10 месяцев назад

@@quillmaurer6563Wow. Let's hope they never have a catastrophic event.

@quillmaurer6563 10 месяцев назад

@@eywine.7762 Yeah, for sure. But there's a lot of facilities and industries that have similar risks all around us. If this happened at the Coors brewery, it would dump into the creek, there aren't any houses too close to the creek for numerous miles so probably not a risk of causing a disaster like this, but would be an ecological catastrophe (some people describe alcoholics as "drinking like a fish," but I doubt fish would be too into beer). The big difference of historic versus present is heavy industries are usually not right next to housing, probably because of disasters like this.

@jorp_the_pauper_porpoise 10 месяцев назад

@@quillmaurer6563I work at a brewery that produces around 500k bbls a year. Our largest holding tanks are 1200bbls, which I believe to be around 35k gallons.

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

@@quillmaurer6563 But the beer would definitely be in the fish!

@AndimatterUniverse 10 месяцев назад

Hearing about this made me recall a very recent event that caused some headlines in germany when the worlds tallest aquarium burst. I don't know if you also do more recent events but I think it could be quite interesting.

@ShinyHelmet 10 месяцев назад

Seems fishy.

@WobblesandBean 10 месяцев назад

@@ShinyHelmet I agree, something about this just doesn't hold water.

@Otakunopodcast 10 месяцев назад

@@WobblesandBean I'd try to make a fish joke here, but I would probably flounder.

@GrislyAtoms12 10 месяцев назад

@@Otakunopodcast We will let you off the hook.

@MelodyMLucianoNorris-qe8lc 10 месяцев назад

As a chimney professional, I have to say that concrete also can break down over time. Still not an ideal solution to the issue at hand. Most places now use those big shiny stainless steel vatts instead.

@eywine.7762 10 месяцев назад

I had the same thought about concrete. The truth is that even stainless steel can fail if not properly maintained.

@melissaharris3389 10 месяцев назад

Entropy will eventually come for us all

@BennyLlama39 10 месяцев назад

@@eywine.7762 Well, that answers the question I was about to ask. 🙂

@vustvaleo8068 10 месяцев назад

I guess a rare instance of beer directly killing people as in it does not involve drunk driving or health issues from drinking too much of it.

@quillmaurer6563 10 месяцев назад

Too much beer is bad for your health. I guess this is an extreme case of an "overdose." I wonder if people have similarly "overdosed" on other drugs or drinks, such as crushed beneath a pallet of cocaine or marijuana, or been aboard a smuggling boat that sank because it was overloaded with "goods."

@luffyduffy7817 10 месяцев назад

I'm always so fascinated by these incidents that have happened so long ago because it shows how much people have learned over the centuries in terms of safety and what we once thought was acceptable. That or it shows how long some people's greed has been responsible for these preventable deaths. Anyway you could cover the Richmond Theatre Fire of 1811? I just read a historical fiction book that's centered around the events and I was amazed I never heard of it before

@dr.floridaman4805 10 месяцев назад

Wear the mask. Safety for grandma Take the booster shot Mandated safety lock downs You are sheep

@user-kx7ls8ds9j 10 месяцев назад

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.104 done

@QueryBuns 10 месяцев назад

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.104ok

@DaveSCameron 10 месяцев назад

That's the crucial importance of #OurHistory

@CallMeAdam2023 10 месяцев назад

Exactly, today no one would even attempt to build a wooden barrel and expect it to hold millions of gallons of liquid.

@jacekatalakis8316 10 месяцев назад

And to think at the time beer was seen as the safe alternative to water given the issues with sanitation at the time, this was pre Great Stink, and pre Broad Street outbreak. This is absolutely incredible, much like the Irish whiskey flood/fire, and the Portuguese wine flood this yearwine

@Rammstein0963. 10 месяцев назад

Don't spam...😒

@gordonaliasme1104 10 месяцев назад

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.104Did you read the pinned comment 😅

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 10 месяцев назад

Man that whole alcohol instead of water thing is still up in the air, it’s still argued it was purely preference

@ct92404 10 месяцев назад

@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeatIt does make sense though. The boiling in the distillation process would have killed any bacteria, people just wouldn't have known that back then.

@Law-of-EnTropy 10 месяцев назад

Quite timely since a town in Portugal is currently flooded by two million liters worth of wine

@marywood6270 10 месяцев назад

Oh my 😮😮

@marypasco2213 10 месяцев назад

And the company has said they will fund the cleanup.

@sarahewson3607 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for naming the victims of this disaster. What an honorable thing to do ❤️ Also, as an American, I tremendously appreciate that you convert measurements to our understanding. I know we’re an anomaly, but it’s not my personal fault so I appreciate your efforts to help us understand 👍🏼

@suzyfarnham3165 10 месяцев назад

Shame most American sites don't do the same? Only 3 countries are not metric? Lucky I am old enough to have lived through both.The younger generation would have no idea what a yard or a gallon was?

@crow-jane 10 месяцев назад

Someone else in the comments referred to it as converting metric into “hamburgers per eagle” for us Yanks, and I think I’ll be using that from now on.

@Diamondphobe 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately he used two measurements which aren't British. We use Imperial Gallons.

@Heike-- 10 месяцев назад

Don't apologize to foreigners. We do things our way, not theirs. They can bend to accommodate us. After all, we keep their countries safe and they haven't had a war as long as we've been in charge. When Big Daddy pays for everything, Little Bit gets to accommodate him.

@suzyfarnham3165 10 месяцев назад

@@Heike-- PS...MY children have been in the past 3 conflicts YOUR country started!!! They ALSO didn't pack up overnight ,leaving helicopters, Bushmasters, spare parts. tanks and guns for the Taliban ....5,000 OF WHICH YOUR EX PRESIDENT freed.????? Guess they didn't show THAT on American TV. I HAVE VIDEOIF YOU NEED IT!! lOTS OF PHOTOS TOO! So if you government is saying they can't find 61% of your assets.....We all know where they are!!!

@brianedwards7142 10 месяцев назад

I'm writing a fantasy story right now set in a city where there are numerous breweries who not only make beer but potions as well or the beer has magical effects... it's still in the first draft stage. Anyway, this has added a new dimension.

@babecat2000 10 месяцев назад

Good luck with the story I am intreasted in it.

@maryeckel9682 10 месяцев назад

First draft 😂

@brianedwards7142 10 месяцев назад

@@maryeckel9682 🤣 I see what you did there.

@pmberry 10 месяцев назад

It's interesting that you used Hogarth's *Gin Lane* to illustrate what the area might have looked like at the time. The lesser-known companion piece is *Beer Street* oddly enough.

@missywink1504 10 месяцев назад

I was horrified at what I saw in the Gin Lane depiction. Now I'm going to look up Beer Street. Thanks.

@dawnstorm9768 10 месяцев назад

@@missywink1504It's a huge contrast to Gin Lane.

@schroedingersdog7965 10 месяцев назад

An excellent observation: Hogarth's contrasting the "evil" of gin with the "wholesomeness" of beer.

@nargileh1 10 месяцев назад

Those rings on the vats should be less interspaced near the bottom and more at the top. The pressure increases linearly with the height of the liquid column above. I'm pretty sure Pascals law had been around for a couple centuries by then.

@BenoitRAG3 10 месяцев назад

Didn't ask

@crow-jane 10 месяцев назад

@@BenoitRAG3Who the heck are you to tell the rest of us what we can find interesting? 😂

@BenoitRAG3 10 месяцев назад

@@crow-jane I am me, you are you. Is there some confusion?

@crow-jane 10 месяцев назад

@@BenoitRAG3 None. You’re clearly an ass, or a child, or both, but I was hoping to not have to spell it out.

@killertrip10 10 месяцев назад

It's very inspiring the way the people didn't revel in the "free beer", drinking it from the streets but instead listened for survivors.

@marievaleur7877 10 месяцев назад

I cannot imagine a 15 ft wave of beer coming down the street, how horrifying! I saw that a wine vat in Portugal has recently burst sending 600k liters down the road. So sad that the poor victims had no compensation for their tragic losses.

@missywink1504 10 месяцев назад

That picture of Gin Lane, though . . . Very creepy.

@seandelap8587 10 месяцев назад

This sounds very similar to the Dublin whiskey flood that you covered about a year ago

@marywood6270 10 месяцев назад

Thank you, knew id heard of another unusual flood, but couldn't remember where

@BenoitRAG3 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for being 100th commentator to poiht that out

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

@@BenoitRAG3 You are very welcome! Anything to help!

@BenoitRAG3 10 месяцев назад

quit trying to take credit for others failures.@@inconnu4961

@aileencastaneda3724 10 месяцев назад

A bizarre tragedy and those poor families they just wanted them to pay for the funeral. Even then the government didn’t do anything to help the victims’ families. Instead helped the company out when they were facing bankruptcy.

@maryeckel9682 10 месяцев назад

The poor didn't matter to them at all.

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

@@maryeckel9682 Indeed not.

@manuelacosta9463 10 месяцев назад

Man, just imagine going out like that, awashed in beer. This one is a deadly oddity indeed.

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

This is most men's dream death! LOL

@WobblesandBean 10 месяцев назад

Huh. I actually went to that theater often when I lived in London. I had no idea the location had such a dark past.

@markbrown4039 10 месяцев назад

If it weren't for the loss of life, particularly children, this story would at most be mildly amusing. I had this darkly comic image of people running out with containers to get free beer. But when I heard the first victim was a child, the story stopped being funny instantly. Thanks again for describing this incident with a degree of calm and sensitivity.

@TiffWaffles 10 месяцев назад

Would it have been funny if the first victim was an adult? However, I agree with you- this is horrific. The fact that the company wasn't held liable for the deaths left me fuming. The coroner was one piece of work labelling those deaths as 'casually, accidentally and by misfortune'. Was it misfortune that a small child was sitting in her own home with her mother and friend, at teatime when this company's negligence caused a rush of ale to break down the wall of her home and drown her?

@Obsidianone831 10 месяцев назад

@TiffWaffles The commenter's 1st sentence is literally "if it wasn't for the loss of life...". There is no need for the quick judgment and taking offense.

@inconnu4961 10 месяцев назад

@@Obsidianone831of course there is. She needs to show us how caring she is! this happened 200 yrs ago, and this kook is fuming? C'mon lady, time to grow up & act like an adult now.

@blu3fire105 10 месяцев назад

I think the worst part is that they charged people to view the flood

@h.huffen-puff4105 10 месяцев назад

Yes. Quite reprehensible.

@kirakaffee9976 10 месяцев назад

well if life gives you lemons, sell them ^^

@blu3fire105 10 месяцев назад

@@kirakaffee9976 when life kills people, sell viewing features

@ParaSytius 10 месяцев назад

The horrific part is how those responsible in these videos seem to get away with it with no consequences and in some cases come away better off.

@Norfnorf12 10 месяцев назад

Every single time! But yeah the idea that they got compensation so they wouldn’t go out of business was salt in the wound.

@pippagrey9633 10 месяцев назад

@@Norfnorf12 It would be worth looking into whether declaring bankruptcy would have allowed them to pay anything out before judging. I also do not know how many people they employed; it is possible that the financial hardships that would have been visited upon their now former employees might have been quite severe if they had closed. It also seems that the relatively short time between finding the slipped band and the bursting of the vat might not have been enough to get it repaired (or even temporarily patched) even without the delay of notifying the owner to arrange the repair. It certainly wouldn't have been time to empty the vat, and we don't know if they had anywhere to put the contents. I read someplace recently the quote 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.' When looking at historical events should we judge people's actions by modern 21st century standards? We don't even judge everyone today by the same standards.

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

@@pippagrey9633Fair enough points. There is, however, something called "doing the decent thing", and I think that principle was already known in 1814...but it doesn't often seem to apply to the stinking rich. The fact the victims' families had to put on a sideshow of corpses to raise a few pounds for funeral expenses while Sir Topham Tightfist or whatever his name was did sweet bugger-all but safeguard his own fortune says things weren't all THAT different 209 years ago.

@sharonsomers 10 месяцев назад

I never heard of this incident before. Brings to mind the molasses flood in Boston.

@Mlo-tn9yr 10 месяцев назад

The terrifying thing is that the wine spill in Portugal was more liquid and how no one was killed from that is unbelievable in comparison 600,000 gallons were spilled

@-Katastrophe 10 месяцев назад

Having two measurement systems really is a youtuber's best friend, it means you can get that required ad time more easily.

@benmcreynolds8581 10 месяцев назад

Reminds me of the molasses flood. That thing must have been an absolute nightmare with it's ability to be warm, flowy & sticky to then harden up once it cooled off & stopped moving. How would they even clean all that? Retrieve the victims bodies? Crazy crazy stuff..

@mariekatherine5238 10 месяцев назад

This reminds me of the molasses flood in Boston, MA.

@mikewifak 10 месяцев назад

Jury to Brewery is now my favorite phrase. Thank you, sir.

@schroedingersdog7965 10 месяцев назад

Now, if the brewery had been located on Drury Lane . . .

@mikewifak 10 месяцев назад

@@schroedingersdog7965 🤯

@confusedDruid 10 месяцев назад

0:27 this is an absolute tragedy and I'm giggling about the shape on the map... I'm a child sometimes I stg

@couch2558 10 месяцев назад

This is probably the last thing I'm watching before going to sleep near 6 am lol

@211inprogress 10 месяцев назад

Get some rest and all the best. 🇬🇧

@beanutbutterbaus 10 месяцев назад

Bruh might as well get ready for the day 😂😂

@couch2558 10 месяцев назад

@@beanutbutterbaus i didnt have to do anything until the afternoon akshsj

@thetman0068 10 месяцев назад

This puts a whole new context on the term “beer run”

@Nikki0417 10 месяцев назад

I thought this was a re-upload for a second but realized it just reminded me of previous videos. Now, I wonder how common beverage and food floods drowning people is in history.

@staedriennetentickles94 10 месяцев назад

Loving how every second story on this channel is becoming "Lots of young people died and nobody responsible suffered consequences because capitalism." Thanks for the constant reminders where the road we're on takes us.

@jimdieseldawg3435 10 месяцев назад

Excellent quality reporting, as always. Thank you for maintaining your standards of research, respect for victims and utter lack of hyperbolic clickbait. Many could learn from your approach. Take a bow 🙂

@michaelsalomon7101 10 месяцев назад

Love you’re videos. Always very interesting and informative. Keep up the good work.

@whokid187 10 месяцев назад

"Act of god", interesting verdict, sounds like something that would happen today for a major corporations gross negligence.

@Ragetiger1 10 месяцев назад

The issue comes into play that the slipped band happened hours prior to the vat bursting. They also noted that bands had slipped prior without incident. Not even as much as a leak with the band slipping, so there wasn't a fear of a vat burst or any other negative outcome.

@whokid187 10 месяцев назад

@@Ragetiger1 Until it happened and killed 8 people. I find it coincidental that it was a disparaged community as well, where lives "don't mean as much" as more prominent ones. And no one was held liable, so those 8 lives and 2 homes didn't matter as much as the lost porter from the vat?

@nthgth 10 месяцев назад

@whokid187 finding it coincidential means you don't suspect foul play. Maybe you mean "suspicious?" And yeah if this was the first time it happened, and there was no reason to suspect it might.. kinda sounds like What should they have been expected to do? Even if it was a wealthy area, it was like 4 hours, do you know how long it takes to get a crew in for something like this when no one has any reason to think it's urgent? At least a day, and that's in modern times with vans and cell phones and dispatchers.

@Ragetiger1 10 месяцев назад

@@nthgth That's cause most of these people today only see in perfect 20/20 hindsight. It could even be a no-win situation too, when we play that game. So even if a crew responded instantly to move the band back into place, or if you try to remove the product before it fail; it would still fail, but now much sooner AND with more people in the path of destruction.

@Ragetiger1 10 месяцев назад

@@whokid187 Well you have to remember two things, this was the 19th century and the CAR hasn't been invented yet. These were also buildings that had been there so it's not like it just magically poofed there. Plus people tend to live close to where they worked.

@phamiru 10 месяцев назад

I can't even fathom how this looked.

@anoninunen 10 месяцев назад

10:45 - Yesterday, 600000 gallons of red wine flooded a town in Portugal. 2-4x the volume of the Beer Flood, but no reported injuries For comparison, this is still almost 4x less than the Molases Flood (2.3M gal) The 1875 Dublin Whiskey flood/fire spilled 315200 gal, and is recorded to have no fatalities until people drank the undiluted whiskey Then there's the Rockwood Chocolate+Butter flood, and the *_7.4 MILLION GALLON PEPSI FLOOD_* in Russia

@melissaharris3389 10 месяцев назад

I have never heard of a Russian Pepsi flood, and now I must.

@hedgemist691 10 месяцев назад

There has been a wine flood in Portugal due to a similar burst. Fortunately no loss of life.

@jigsaw9220 10 месяцев назад

Putting out interesting and unique videos as always!

@DEATHTRUTH 10 месяцев назад

Imagine a 4 meter high wave of beer, what a sight to see

@Foebane72 10 месяцев назад

They say alcohol kills over time, but these poor victims never even touched the stuff, especially the young children, yet it killed them all the same.

@dannymischler1279 10 месяцев назад

I look forward to your videos every single Tuesday, thank you so much

@ScarletTermite 10 месяцев назад

TIL how Porter beer got it’s name! This disaster is similar to the molasses flood in Boston. Apparently, there are a couple areas that still smell like molasses on really hot days. Great video!

@mauricedavis2160 10 месяцев назад

Another excellent episode of a strange and tragic event, thank you Sir!!!🙏😢🍻🤷❣️

@nonsibi1087 10 месяцев назад

A similar incident occurred in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), in 1919, with similar loss of life (21 deaths) & devastation in the city's North End crowded with 17th & 18th century structures. In the 1919 incident, however, the killer was molasses held in an overfilled decrepit iron tank. In anticipation of the 1919 Prohibition Act outlawing alcoholic liquor production, the tank's contents were intended for brewing rum.

@dougknight1720 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Great research. Thank you

@kayleighwukovich8318 10 месяцев назад

Such a good channel for becoming a more aware and problem solving person

@ThatOpalGuy 10 месяцев назад

gives new meaning to the term; dead drunk

@Chosen1510 10 месяцев назад

One of the best channels on RU-vid!

@Mark-ux7yh 10 месяцев назад

love the content man, keep it up!

@dennis2376 10 месяцев назад

Thank you and have a good week.

@Jessiepoo91 10 месяцев назад

Ahhh! You did this one! Thank you!

@Razer_-fe9mo 10 месяцев назад

Interesting video. Similar to the molasses flood in the US. Not sure if you've Done an video on that incident yet.

@danielabackstrom 10 месяцев назад

I think so 🤔

@Megadextrious 10 месяцев назад

Also the whiskey flood/fire in Dublin!

@Fourrings80 10 месяцев назад

The company faced no penalty and even received a bailout from the government. Madness.

@stevetournay6103 10 месяцев назад

Heh. Most places in the world it'd happen again now. There'd at least be lawsuits, though.

@adamwilkinson6783 10 месяцев назад

Ya stories never cease to amaze ,never heard of this 1 ,keep up the good work 👏

@sapiotone 10 месяцев назад

A fine complimentary expansion to Jago Hazzard's video on Tottenham Court Road. Top notch FH content as always, and getter better with each one!

@savannah115 10 месяцев назад

As an American, thanks for that gallon conversion in the beginning. Contrary to popular belief, most of Americans do have a decent understanding of the metric system, but it's still easier to picture amounts in gallons lol

@cindys.9688 10 месяцев назад

So interesting! Your stories always are. Such a tragedy. You do such fantastic research.

@HerrGeist2010 10 месяцев назад

And just recently there was a wine flood in Portugal.

@Tindometari 7 месяцев назад

There's a lesson in this: Using a single huge production vessel improves efficiency, but it creates a single point of potential failure and assures that that failure will produce a proportionally larger accident with proportionally larger consequences. This applies to a brewery. It also applies to LPG storage, to boilers and steam apparatus, to chemical production reactors, and to nuclear power plants.

@hilarylaw8415 10 месяцев назад

Great work, as always. I salute you!

@spacewarpphotography1667 10 месяцев назад

As someone with an allergy to beer, even its smell, this is horrific. Had I been there, I would have been desperately trying to flee, in between bouts of projectile vomiting.

@Lady_Flashheart40 10 месяцев назад

I first heard about this on Tasting History. Very sad, and the subsequent responsibility-dodging of those responsible makes it worse.

@newshodgepodge6329 10 месяцев назад

It sounded to me like the theater that replaced the brewery is pushing 100 years old. And for it to still be in operation is pretty damn good.

@renasauceman 10 месяцев назад

Yet another example of the “haves” hurting the “have-nots”. It’s a tale literally as old as humankind.

@spiritmatter1553 10 месяцев назад

News today out of Portugal 🇵🇹 is of a winery spill, causing the gutters to run red with wine. What timing. 👌🏼(And the topic of a future Fascinating Horror video, no doubt.)

@Cougarfan7557 7 месяцев назад

34 pounds for 8 dead people while 7250 pounds for the company due to lost assest. Don't get your hopes up people. Its been like this for over 200 years now. Not gonna change anytime soon.

@reneedennis2011 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. I have heard about this tragedy.

@steve3291 10 месяцев назад

People will say what a way to go, but drowning is never a great way to go.

@v-town1980 10 месяцев назад

So you lose a child to an avoidable accident and recieve nothing for your loss from the company?! Unbelievable!!!

@pjousma 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating part of it is that it happened in 1814, more than 200 years ago.

@sketchyskies8531 10 месяцев назад

I’m getting a serious sense of Deja vu from the molasses and whiskey floods in Boston and Dublin

@vinawaldren6888 10 месяцев назад

Drowning in beer...ick! Very terrible and sad though. Thanks for the video FH! 👍🏼

@christioncofield4612 10 месяцев назад

You sir, have now covered all THREE of the non-water floods that were in Sam O’Nella’s video. Congratulations!

@mahkra_ 10 месяцев назад

I love the videos. Great stories, very well produced and well narrated. Just one minor point of feedback about unit conversions for future videos: 1 ton in the US is 2,000 pounds; 1,000 kg is a metric ton -- a different unit, 10% larger. So 33,000 kg is actually a bit over 36 tons in units that a US audience would recognize.

@annnichols3091 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. I didn't know the inspiration for Hogarth's print or the origin of the name "porter" for that type of booze.

@Sharon-kl3by 10 месяцев назад

I love the spooky music !

@sepiasnakesigil 10 месяцев назад

The company charging admission to see the disaster was pretty low.

@johannderjager4146 10 месяцев назад

It's 5:21 AM in the Eastern US when I'm watching this, 6-minutes after it was posted.

@211inprogress 10 месяцев назад

Good morning. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

@Wulfjager 10 месяцев назад

If youre walking on a sidewalk and hear glass pond by public memory playing, run as fast as you can in whatever direction youre facing

@censusgary 10 месяцев назад

A city flooded with beer sounds humorous, but this flood killed eight people and destroyed several neighboring buildings. That wiped the smile right off my face.