Women Dominated The Beer Industry...Until They Were Declared Witches 

Weird History getting a second channel may be the best thing that’s ever happened to RU-vid

Wow, I had no idea there was such a parallel between ale women and witch imagery. That was by far the most interesting piece in the video, but all of it was interesting. Thanks for another great piece of historical information.

My only problem with this channel is its too new for me to binge 15 episodes in a row.

So, technically, Ceres, goddess of grain, is also a beer goddess.🍺🍻

Can you guys make a video about what beer companies did to survive prohibition?

Man, that's something. The world owes its thanks to women. The original makers of beer. Until the Black Death. Beer does seem manly to men. Great topic.

iirc in finland houses were required by law at a time to grow hops E: indeed, in the mid 1700s a law was written requiring every house to have a hops garden which is why even today some of the old buildings have remains of them

I really like these alcohol/ beer history videos. The one on Zima was cool too! More beer videos!

Beer, healthcare, cosmetics just a few things men kicked women out of once they realized there was money in it

As a women in the beer industry, thank you! 🍻

With the general level of hysteria that's currently afoot in some sectors of our society, there's no telling who the next witches may be.

Katie Luther, Martin Luther’s wife was a nun prior to meeting him and she brewed her own beer.

I love beer and witchcraft. I say we bring back the witchy aesthetic but in a good way.

From one to another, I love these channels.

Thank you for spoiling us with a food channel AND posting regularly on it too. Love u WH x

Coolness overcomes. That is such a beer tagline, it hurts.

Always love a video that starts out with the Sandman and stone cold smashing brews. Takes me back to my childhood 😂😂😂

My sister was a bit into witchcraft back in Highschool and now works as a professional bartender.

For now on, Weird History and ANYTHING affiliate with the word "Weird" will be my weekly watch. Thank you for this underground weird history of beer 🍺🍻🥰

Weird History you always deliver thank you :)

I am a women and I’m a home brewer and a witch!

This gives a whole new perspective on a man asking his woman to bring him a beer.

Thanks for this! 🍻

You are by FAR the best channel on youtube!

So glad I subscribed to Weird History and their food channel 😅😅

God, I miss drinking... Smh... Suddenly turning up pregnant in my 30's sucks 😔...My Husband doesn't understand as he really isn't a connoisseur like I was.

Omfg. Thank you for mentioning food recipe blogs being a damn novel to get to the recipe

Independent brewers and distillers have their own place in the world now too. And a good friend of mine who distills her own brandy openly enjoys witchcraft as an extra "get bent" to these same stereotypes that forced women out to begin with

The fact that the opening statement about witchcraft accusations being the norm for empowered women isn't even inaccurate is sad.

Why isn't there a St. Hildegard's or St. Brigid's brand of beer? In Germany, Hildegard's home country, monks are the namesakes of beer brands and credited as the most important early brewers.

This is dope. Please do the history of distilling!

I didn’t realize how much beer and wine people actually drank hundreds of yrs ago. The alcohol % was much lower, but it seems it was the drink of choice for all. Interesting.

A+ video! Fascinating history! Actually just watched the premiere of the 4K version of C'est La Vie by B*Witched before this, had no idea this would link to witches!

I'm sure viewers who don't know the story will love to hear about ALL of rum being used as currency 💰 in Australia during it's colonial period { including it's negative effects on the indigenous population } . 🥃♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴

My maiden name means “Female Brewer” I hate beer. Lmao!!

Honey and bear saliva would produce mead, not beer.

Suggestion: The Weird history of fondue 🫕 and the 1970's fondue craze.🍞🧀🍫

One has to wonder what other things women invented or made better that men decided to take credit for. Certainly in science that has been the case with various women.

the bit on online recipes is so on point.

Wow the guy deciding that women needed to be having babies instead of owning businesses sounds very relevant today.

“I like a light beer brewed for men” biggest cap ever

Ah, the connection between beer and witches makes sense!

Drinking beer while watching video about beer history 🍺

"Africa, Traditional Brewing In, has a long history. The *ancient* Egyptians brewed beer and tribes throughout the African continent also brewed beer long before any European settlers brought their brewing techniques to Africa. Beer in Africa today has two main influences: tribal traditions passed down for centuries and European settlement....Women were the traditional brewers of African beers and men the traditional consumers. Even today, women prepare the traditional brews for the market, weddings, ceremonies, and other celebrations. African tribes have been brewing forms of sorghum beer longer than is recorded in history books." No witches in Africa. Still a big part of their local and rural beer brewing.

I thought medieval water was bad. So if you didn't drink beer, wtf were you supposed to drink? Urine?

Absolutely Amazing I Love Beer & Women ❤️

Never heard of a medieval themed restaurant chain before

5:53 dang, Europe got ratioed by a rat

Please do a video on Milton Hershey. Thanks.

Nice post.

Yuengling is the oldest brewery in America and is ran by the 4 daughters of the son Richard Yuengling who bought it from his father. Under their leadership and passion they have brought us one of the best light beers in the US today. Flight 😌

Wierd History Food or whatever 🤔are 2 of my favorites shows on RU-vid. Always interesting and entertaining and funny too 😄

Raugupatis and Raugutiene are Lithuanian not Polish, however to add to your theme, piwnica or Polish for 'basement' or 'cellar' and more specifically 'beer cellar' or 'beer tavern, can be split into 'piwo' meaning beer and 'nica' making it a feminine word and I have read that Piwnica is a Polish Goddess. Love your videos!

We had these in the early 80s in Colorado, way earlier than your cited introduction date of 1994.

🤣 This clips inspired Miller Lite for the latest Ad of Vengeance.

Wow.. just wow. That sure explains a lot.

If you learn how to authentically brew beer from grain and not from a malt extract there are plenty of texts to remind the novice brewer that women are acknowledged to be the first to perfect the Beer brewing process (any regrets there ladies?). Much like all those delicious things we men love to eat, these were likely first imagined, cooked and served to hungry men hundreds of years ago by perhaps the very same ladies that originally brewed these delicious Ale's.. Completely unrelated, I do believe, to make a good beer one must also be a reasonably good cook, feel free to set me straight if you think I'm wrong 😉

Do a video on mead, please!

Make a video on what foods pirates ate while traveling the seven seas.

And now I know another interesting fact . TY

Awesomeness ❤

Witches brew is an awesome song by crosses.

The hooters joke, tho 😂

Did i miss the Laverne and Shirley clip?

You guys should do the history of Four Loko/Joose

Oh what’s not to love except “ale fever” nothing cures that better than more ale.👍👍🍺🍺and of course the church just had to get involved as always. Nothing beats a party pooper like the church. I park my broomstick wherever I like.

good video

What’s the name of the song that plays during the chapter “The medieval church targeted female brewers”

I Love cold beer on a hot day ,,,I feel if a lady wishes to join me ? That's double the pleaser . A great beer and a great lady . Life is good . ❤Weird History ? Heres to ? The 2nd best channel you have . Best channel on RU-vid ,

Now do popular ancient brews that did not survive to modern day.

It's all great cheer for beer lovers!

It is a nice coincidence this video came out just as I finished reading "A Woman's Place is in the Brewhouse" by Tara Nurin. You stressed a lot of the same things as in her book. She goes into more detail on mythologies and challenges/opportunities women faced as home brewers and entrepreneurs. She also had originally written about women brewers being responsible for our modern concepts about witches, but in this book she writes that she later researched and learned that there were other cultural symbols that may have played a bigger role in these concepts rather than the clothing and brew traditions of alewives. I liked that she presented both points of view. It was also fun to read about modern breweries run by women or partnerships between men and women. I like also her world focus showing historical and modern breweries and women's roles in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand.

Good but just covers ancient and the US and European beer culture. Dig into the BIWOC brewers legacy over centuries!

What about monks…?

This is great however wrong in several things the broom or Besome came before the ale maids it has many uses. The hats are also debatable. However riding the broom and the way the hat was warn could have started then. 😁

I'd imagine it was so big bc water caused dysentery and stuff like that. So it'd be like beer was wayyyy safer than drinking water bc if you drank water not boiled long enough you just die back then

11:32…John sounds like he is choking on some kind of human/male based sausage extremity.

Beer was also medicinal back then too.

Just kill the competition. Very masculine.

Waiting for a miracle but I'll settle for a beeracle...

didn't have to diss bud ice tho

Damn this was so illuminating. So thats why witches were portrayed with big cauldrons of "potions for spells." They were women who didn't need another man to live!!

Beer, the cause of, and the answer to, all of life‘s problems. - Homer J. Simpson

Bud ice what were they thinking?

now do Circus Peanuts........id love to know how that horrible candy came to be.

Women also dominated computer science until men decided programming was a boys club and then there were hardly any female programmers for a long time but now it’s getting better in recent years

what about mead?

beer googles got plenty of folks together...*chuckle*...pretty sure that wasn't magic

good times

Beer miracles: Beeracles.

4:58 - …or liters

Rose her servant… No… Her lover… We know

That and the spanish word for witch is Bruja, And also the etymology of that is From German Brühan or Bruhan, the name of an old family of beer brewers, composed of early modern German breu 'brew' + the personal name (Jo)han (John), a common nickname for a helper. That alone and the broom thing is too much to not be right.

So, you have covered beer. How about wine, or maybe Rum. All of them are great adult beverages and I'm sure they all have weird and interesting histories.

How about how whiskey became synonymous with cowboys?

Ladies are still brewing in S. America.

what about busch beer?

3:07 men were forbidden from topping of eachother-

Bourbon next.

daaaamn I didn't know that hildegard von bingen invented putting hops in beer! I just knew that she liked weed and other psychoactive drugs on top of being the biggest herbal medicine expert of her rime. that was one awesome nun!