History of Beer - Barbarian Brew - World History - Extra History - Part 2 

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I have a Spanish friend who jokes that there's two tipes of European food. The civilized one that cooks in olive oil and drinks wine, and the barbarian that cooks in butter and drinks beer.

Whenever people ask "if you found yourself in medieval times, what would you do?", my answer is always "go to Hildegard von Bingen's abbey." Basically the closest thing to a university a woman could have gone to at the time.

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” ― Abraham Lincoln

Me: *Coming back from a 12 hour shift* Extra Credits: “Is drinking a sin?” Me, Heavily drinking after work: “ABSOLUTELY NOT *Belch* THATS HERETIC TALK!”

WAIT WAIT WAIT... that description... Is... is the "magic potion" in Asterix and Obelix just beer? That is hilarious.

Wine snobs are another of those things that have been around for way longer than people think :D.

Imagine what a Roman would think of modern day France with its wine and HUGE beer culture mixed together!

Speaking of those female pubkeepers … in mediaeval English, the suffix -ster was the feminine equivalent of -er and was used to form names of women's professions. So the surname Brewster is derived from a female ancestor who brewed beer. (Similarly, Baxter was the feminine equivalent of Baker.)

Glad to know stereotypes about alcohol has existed as long as the beverages.

You're telling me I've been waiting for years to get HRT when I could've just drunk wine to get instantly force-femmed by the romans?

"There was two things I don't like: Cold women and hot beer". - A truck driver I've had a conversation in a gas station.

Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages. The study is supported by textual and archaeological evidence and gives a fresh and fascinating insight into an aspect of ancient life that has fed through to modern society and which stands today as one of the world's most popular beverages

As a deep lover of Roman history, I wholeheartedly endorse the Rome-bashing in this episode.

I would like to point out that hops became the dominant additive to bear more due to taxes on Gruit (alternately grut or gruyt), a herb mixture used for flavouring that was more popular before the widespread use of hops.

So there’s some people in Denmark who’s revived the tradition of mead making, Denmark being the more temperate and low land part of Scandinavia, has always been prone to beer, wine and mead. Because we like our alcohol a lot, but mead is… mild and can change depending on where the bees harvest their honey, if they harvest in forests mostly it’s a more potent less sweet drink, if it’s mostly from one type of flower it takes on the property of that flower (someone actually made a strawberry mead through this process and it taste good which is a problem because it’s 7% alcohol by volume and shouldn’t be drunk like candy)

The monks and beer are a strange and iconic combination that is hard to imagine as separated. Here is one example: "Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!" And so said Martin Luther, who smuggled his future wife Katharina von Bora out of the nunnery, hiding her inside the beer barrel. After their marriage, Luther thought that there was nothing better than Katherine's beer and he also considered that this merry drink with the good companions is an effective repellent for the devil itself.

Man,the Romans were the greatest hypocrites of antiquity. They saw someone doing the exact same thing only with more local resources and they were like: Barbarian!

Also, would love to see an episode on mead halls!! A contrast with how pubs are like social living rooms today!

4:16 That drawing of the abandoned wine wagon is great. 7: 10 "Assize of beard and ale!" sounds like one of Bez the Beast's (from the Arabian Knights' cartoon), stranger transformations.

One thing I'd like to say is that the narrative that the Roman simply "copied" or "imported" their gods from Greece vastly oversimplifies Roman religion.

Wonderful video! I am looking forward to you explaining the difference between Ale and Lager, and why one became dominant in the English empire and the other one in Middle Europe.

This is my new fav extracredits video. The art is so on point. Simple icons work to get points across efficiently but very specific and immersive slides really get me going.

The whole Hildegard von Bingen aside makes me want to see a video or a series about her.

6:39 my home city of Plymouth, UK has an narrow street called Castle Street which used to go by the nickname "Damnation Alley". Over a 100m stretch of alleyway there were at least 10 documented inns and it was said that every one had a brothel upstairs.

i hope they make the story of soda one day. probably next they doing something along wine and soda probably has no intervention on history is just that i love soft drinks

So... magic potion that Panoramix makes for Asterix and Obelix is actually BEER?! God I love history!

I love your content and watch every episode for the past few years, and my heart was so happy when you've mentioned my homeland Czechia, keep doing your awesome work, the best wishes from central europe

I love beer and I love history, what a combo.

PLEASE spend an entire episode on mead halls, and their socio-political functions!

Ha I literally had some beers with the boys and this popped up. Petfect timing.

Gain both the strength of beer and the civilized manner of wine by mixing the two together. Can't believe I'm the only person in history to think of this.

So, one of the beers that I've found and very much enjoyed is one called Dragon's Milk from the New Holland Brewing Company. I actually first came across it at Costco, of all places, but I've since found it at quite a few grocery stores. It is a bourbon barrel-aged stout, and I find it to be quite lovely and smooth. I tend to prefer darker beers, though I'm also quite fond of ciders and wheat beers. I just tend not to go for the pale ales. Either way, one interesting thing for me is that I tend toward the view of beer as being something communal. Sharing a drink being something a powerfully social act. Even not being a major beer drinker, I can't help but find myself thinking in terms of "I would be happy to drink a beer with this person," as a mark of respect. Funny how deeply ingrained things like that can be, isn't it?

Thanks for all the awesome videos, you can see all the hard work that is put into each one. Keep up the amazing job.

This video has given me a new appreciation for beer, and a thirst for one. My dad always says that the first thing they open up in a town is a church, the second is a pub of some kind. I live in Australia and have seen plenty of tiny towns, and he hasn't been wrong yet. Now when i drink beer all i will be able to think is how i'm participating in a huge continuous line of history. Cheers! 🍺

0:35 is an Asterix reference? Vitalstatistix on his shield, with two supporters?

Alright as a Muslim I'm very tempted to drink a beer right now

I just moved to Astoria last year! And I have been meaning to go to Bohemian Hall. I haven't been in at least 7 years and it's on my list of things to do now that I'm in the neighborhood.

Love how there’s someone holding a carnyx at 0:33 . Great stuff!

'Beer is proof that God loves us & wants us to be happy.' ~ Thomas Jefferson

Top tier explanation, top tier illustration, top tier subject. One of the fricking most interesting and yet unexpected videos ever that poped up in my recommended

Sounds like you guys and galls should make a series about Hildegard von Bingen

I love how this drink has touched so many civilizations and cultures it is a delight to learn about

I have to say, that image of the Romans drinking beer in a tent during a rainstorm at 4:06 is so cozy

10 liters per day might be a bit of an overstatement, I'm pretty sure drinking 10L of anything per day would be dangerous.

"What does that[mead hall] looks to ya?" Me: *intense HTTYD nostalgia*

Been waiting all week for part 2

Drinking with the boys 🍻

Hey fellow Astorian! Keep up the good work

Some Dutch students o.a. in Leiden and Utrecht) can jokingly refer to beer as "vloeibaar brood", which is in English liquid bread...so that little tradition hasn't died out either;)

Today's my birthday and I have always enjoyed your videos thank you for another great video!

"financially incentivized company" Algorithm filter avoidance makes for some fun innuendos.

Glad to hear after all my years away, the Bohemian Beer Hall is still kicking

Please make a series on the 4th Crusade. I really want one.

"We could spend an entire episode on mead-halls and their sociopolitical functions" Please do.

I love this channel.

Wow! I learned so much about something I thought I knew.

Used to live in Astoria with my wife, bohemian beer hall was the place to be during the summer through Oktoberfest!!

And now I want that Mead Hall episode!

Also make a video about Hildegard von Bingen.

Was curious if mead would get mentioned in this series. Having gotten into making mead back in 2020, it was a rabbit hole looking into alcohol brewing in general.

Please make a separate episode on Mead Halls, that looks like a very interesting topic!

Astoria!!?? I didn't know yinz lived on the coast. That's cool, I'm just a short drive from your local beer hall lol

Me reading the title: _Bavarian_ brew......? Oh... Damn you, Freud!

Please do a mead hall deep dive!!!

Visiting New York from California, I went to Bohemian Hall in Astoria on your recommendation in this video.

I love this channel 😊

It's incredible that the first food or drink to be regulated in Britain was Ale. You would think it would be something more like Bread or Milk, but no, it was Ale. This is such an amazing journey. Alcohol is probably more important than coffee in developing our modern world.

Yay! Finally, again.

You should make a video about mead halls

An episode on mead halls? Yes please!

As the Gauls moved to wine under Roman influence, I wonder what were they drinking in that single Gaul village that Caesar never managed to conquer. Oh wait...

I've made mead at home. came out pretty good despite having none of the special tools required for it.

Im once again watching the history of beer and drinking beer

Now I want a dedicated episode on Hildegard von Bingen

I love the references to the Asterix comics

'Eyy, von _Blingin'_ represent! (For the uninitiated, I highly recommend Hildegard von Blingin's channel if "bardcore for the discerning clergyman, noble, or muck-gathering peasant" sounds like a heckin' good time).

Oh wow!

I love the phrase "financially incentivized company". lol

This series is too cool. I love these overarching history series (paper money, alphabet etc.)!

Interesting! I never new hops were preservatives... I wonder how that works...

"Smoky flavour" from hops, interesting concept!

You should make a series on Shahname

Apart from the video, I love the Hello Fresh Ad saga 😆

I love the shade on the Romans' culture being basically what they imported or stole.

I need a life story of Hildegard von Bingen.

Mmmmm~ Mead. Especially flavored with cranberries to give it a more sour hints. Or a nice cyser where you use apple juice instead of water when brewing.

As an archaeology student in Belgium (admittedly, only a first year so I may be wrong about stuff), I think some pretty big issues have been made on the section of European barbarians in the Iron and Classical age. If I remember my highschool Latin courses correctly, Caesar did talk about the Gauls (which I believe has been mispelled and mispronounced as Gals in the episode) and the Belgians as 'tribi', but this word is better translated in this context as 'culture'. The 'Gauls' were not one unified tribal polity, but consisted of multiple 'civitates' (which I'd translate as either tribe or citizen community), such as the Aedui, the Sequani, the Carnutes and so on. The Belgians/Belgae (in Belgium we tend to prefer using the Latin term for them, as we no longer really claim they are our direct ancestors) likewise were more an ethnic group with many tribes within them, most famous of which being the Eburones. 'Gaul' is also a contentious term to some extent, as in the Roman mind 'Gaul' encompassed the modern day Po Valley in Northern Italy (Gallia Cisalpina), all of France, all of Belgium, and a small part of what's now the Netherlands and Germany. (Gallia Transalpina) Caesar very specifically specified that 'Gaul (in this case Gallia Transalpina) is divided into three parts, each with their own language, customs and peoples'. These three parts are 'Belgia' (inhabited by the Belgae), Aquitania (Modern day aquitaine and southern-france in general, inhabited by the Aquitanians), and a last part which is "inhabited by those whom in our language are called Gauls, but who in their own call themselves Celts'. That is all to say, I think a better way to phrase this would've been 'the Gaulic Celts' or the 'Celts living in Gaul'. In addition, I will admit that my knowledge of Germanic archaeology in this period is pretty spotty, but a lot of the objects shown here resembled La Téne or Hallstatt objects more than they did Germanic objects to me. But I could just be wrong about that, so idk. Finally, and I'll admit these points are kinda just splitting hairs, the first evidence of 'Celtic' consumption of wine is already in the Hallstatt period, before the rise of Rome. This was largely due to Greek, Punic and Etruscan influences from around 800-600 BCE. Researchers debate wether or not the Hallstatt can be called Celts, though it is without a doubt they are the originators of what we now call Celtic culture. In addition, while I get its just a joke, the joke about the Romans 'importing' their gods is a stereotype that's flat out wrong. The Romans were already worshipping most of their pantheon before intense Greek contact, and the Roman gods are noticably different in a number of ways from their Greek counterparts. It's really more accurate to say they grew enamoured with Greek *mythology* and some Greek religious practices, and 'equated' their gods (i.e, saying that they were the same deity all along) with the Greek gods. This did mean that some gods were straight up imported/radically changed to fit the new paradigm, but I don't think it's really fair to make fun of the Romans for taking foreign gods and foreign concepts when *everyone* was doing that at this period of time. Anyways, if you end up reading this, thank you for taking the time and I apologise if I made any mistakes in this comment. I don't want to sound arrogant or deman you guys' work, and I get that a lot of this nuance couldn't've fit in the episode anyways. It's also, as I said, entirely possible I'm just wrong about some of the details here, so yeah.

Do a episode on mead halls

7:40 do I smell another series?? because those were quite some interesting feats lol

The Roman gods werent inherited from the Greeks They were just very similar cause they were both Indo-European Religions

Well that's good to know

I would love to watch the mead hall episode

4:55 ayyy Astoriaaaaaa

Beer for the win

Normandie was famous for wine making at the fall of the Roman empire!!? Nowadays it's known for cider and apple spirit... Would never have thought they had the climate for grapes in that period.

...I want a series on Hildegard von Bingen now.

Interesting

Can we please get a video on mead halls!!!

The lies special for this will be incredible