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Nice how you guys skip Africa, when talking about wine and beer. I swear in the west, you would think that history happens only in Europe, Asia(Western and Eastern) and with Native Americans, but the 2nd most populous continent on earth they pretend that NOTHING happened there for centuries until Europeans and Arabs show up, especially South of the Sahara. And written sources cant be a problem because SOME of the cultures they talk about in the Americas don't have a written language. There's Palm wine, banana beer, millet beer, tej mead, etc. There's gods of beer in various Bantu cultures.
Fun fact: According to the Primary Chronicle, a history of the Kievan Rus, the Grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great reportedly preferred Christianity to Islam b/c the latter banned drinking, "the joy of the Rus."
And in one video, this was due to Rus culture of feasting that act as display of power for Slavic culture. So no alcohol means no feast, which means alienating his subjects.
Glad to see that my alcohol fueled partying and drunken good times in the university is a tradition that goes back to the beginning of beer. Now married with 3 kids, God I miss my university days, good education and great fun!
These anti-Universities riots mentioned at 5:50 were really bonkers. A HistoryTuber M. Laser made good videos about the Medieval History of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, describing them in more detail. I know that I've recommended this particular channel a couple of times here already but you really seem to have an affinity for similar topics (including the history of hopped beer, which I mentioned previously).
He must have been an admiral, a sultan, or a king. And to his praises we shall always sing. Look at what he's done for us, he's filled us up with cheer. Lord Bless Charlies Mopps the man who invented Beer, Beer, Beer, tiddly beer, beer, beer
With you talking about "ale" vs "beer", I got reminded that my Dutch in-laws do the opposite: they ask me if I want a "pilsje" (pilsner, catch-all for lager) or a "beer". Since I have been working professionally in beer (transport, retail, workshops, pairings ..) since before I met them, I have no idea if they do this all the time.
Yes please!! I'd love to see the history of beer and alcohol in China especially, since that's where we have some of the oldest pre-agrarian evidence for the existence of beer!
Hi! I've been a massive fan of your show for years now and you're a big part of why I decided to go back to university and become an academic. My upcoming PhD is actually in the social funtions of taverns so I'd be really interested to see your reading list for this fantastic episode, as you touch on lot of similiar themes. Keep up the great work all and best wishes for the future! :)
He. I think the geatest strength of Extra History isn't so much the actual information they provide, but making you curious about various topics. The EH series on the South Sea Bubble and Paper Money got me thinking more about economics and thus gave me an improved understanding of the mechanics of an economy for example.
One of the interesting theories I have heard is that the stereotypes for witches were as a result of the crackdown against women brewers. Cats are used to keep down rats eating the grain, brooms are for keeping the spaces clean, ... and the pointy hats are just for fun, I guess.
Dragon's Milk is actually still around, sort of. New Holland brewery in Michigan makes an 11% abv Bourbon barrel aged stout called Dragon's Milk and it's absolutely delicious. It's hard to find in a lot of places and stupid expensive, I've seen individual 12 oz. bottles going for around 5 bucks each here on the west coast, but it's so worth a try if you can.
You can find 4 pks of dragons milk at grocery stores in Ohio. Plus they make special seasonal variations on it such as s’mores, coffee chocolate, and oatmeal cookie. There’s also a barrel aged golden ale and red ale that are really good.
@@afrozen10-02 Yeah they've got the 4 packs at my local Whole Foods as well but they're like 22 bucks each plus deposit. Gonna have to keep an eye out for some of those other flavors though, I love me a good red ale and it's hard to find any ales other than IPA's out here in Portland. Cascade hops seems to rule all when it comes to the microbreweries out here.
Ludwig Haetzer:We should not drink beer! Germany:Hold my beer... Seriously though, imagine saying to a crowd of Germans that they shouldn't be drinking beer and then thinking that it would end well for you.
Try a dose of dysentery and then you'll understand. My father took a year to recover and he was ex farmer and extremely fit and healthy. The beer was equivalent to low alcohol today but enough to kill the pathogens.
Just wanted to say, your history videos are just so comfy for me at this point, I've been watching them since the beginning and I watch plenty of other history videos but no other channel captures my attention and makes me feel content to just sit and watch like this one
My grandparents lived in a town in England which was the centre of the hop growing industry, and every year we used to go there as a kid for the Hop festival
Yeah, like, I dont understand why our male ancestors hated women so much. Even in ancient times did they find every excuse and fight tooth and nail to the best of their power just to hold women down, to fuel the delusion that men were somehow "superior". Its only VERY recently that women are finally breaking the shackles of men's control over them, and as we can so to this very day, some men are fighting to push them down with oppressive legislation in the USA, such as the anti-abortion law. It's pathetic, horrible, and depressing to say the least.
That is definitely a sad motif throughout the ages when it comes to many things, yes... Although... In this particular case... One might actually argue that - barring a (relatively) brief couple o' centuries' hiatus at the end of the last millennium - women have overwhelmingly dominated the art of brewing for all of recorded history; To the extent that even the very deities who presided over the craft, were exclusively female.
Fun fact: my last name is actually “Luther”, so it’s always a treat to possibly think that he could be an ancestor of mine. History is always full of those little Easter eggs.
I'm glad you mentioned Martin Luther's chronic constipation. It's one of the lesser known facts about him. Much of his writing was done while spending hours on end working through extremely painful bowel movements.
6:10 You were kind of wrong there. Muhammad (SAW) did not prohibit alcohol because of a few "incidents". Rather, us Muslims believe that alcohol was banned in 3 phases as religious doctrine. Phase 1, "I recommend that you don't be drunk cuz that's bad for your health"; Phase 2, don't be drunk around prayer times, and phase 3, just stop drinking entirely.
Love your videos! Just a little thing. The Reinheitsgebot in 1516 was put in place in Ingolstadt (where Frankenstein studied), not directly in Munich. Ingolstadt belonged to the dukedom of Munich tho, so... not entirely wrong!
🎶Drink with your family Drink it with your friends Drink till your fat, stomach distends Beer is liquid bread, it's good for you We like to drink till we spew! Ew! Who cares if we get fat? I'll drink to that🎶
Well now I wonder if holy water was really just yeast water? Kinda like a secret family recipe that when a small bit was added to the mix before sealing it made a better beer... not really a required ingredient, just the method for which the church ensured easy production... Or something like that...
The beer purity law has expanded to the whole Germany since Kaiserreich reunification, but in 1987 EC(later EU) court says that this is a protectionism against other EC member countries and the Reinheitsgebot collapses in practice afterwards, nowadays a lot of DE brewers also brew non-Reinheitsgebot beers like pilsener and sell them in DE
I like a good pale ale or lager, though I quite enjoy rice and wheat beers, the later especially if it has an orange. a lot of the beers I like are imported brands, like Asahi and Carona (with lime). I also wouldn’t be much of a mick if I couldn’t enjoy a Guinness, but my favorite all around is probably Smithwicks Red ale. The taste is so good it’s not super high in content either. A bit less in actual Ireland, the imported stuff has to be stronger to last. But man that taste is just so good.
Very entertaining! There's something that bothers me a little at 2:36 though. That blue pie chart sliver is nowhere close to what 36% should look like (it should be just over a third of the pie!)
Damnit!! I just learned something! I like some ales, but I can't stand the "hoppiness" of some beers like IPAs. Now I know this is because of the lack of hops in the ale. 🤔 👍 😀
Thank you ur the only person who has pointed this out. It is honestly C’s up that they something like that in a episode which was released the first day of Ramadan
Baptists are still going around saying nobody should ever drink a drop of alcohol. They get a little flustered when you remind them about Jesus and the wine. It's kind of entertaining.
