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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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............
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.
@@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....
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
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?
@@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.
"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.
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".
@@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 !
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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 👍🏼
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?
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.
@@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!!!
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
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.
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."
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
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 🙂
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..
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.
@@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?
@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
People new to FH don’t realize that regardless of the circumstances of these tragedies we don’t really do the trolling or low brow crud because we actually respect the lives lost in these events. Like ok “HAHA BEER!!” Clever. Meanwhile innocent people died in a very messed up way, children included. And I can’t imagine being in mourning for one person to only have some freak event end up taking the lives of those at the wake.
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.)
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
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.
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.
Weird timing. This video was posted on Sept. 12th, 2023. Two days ago, on Sept. 10, 2023, there was a wine flood in Sāi Lourenço do Barrio, Portugal. Two tanks of red wine burst and spilled about 2.2 million litres, or 581,000 gallons of wine into the streets.
I thought after the flooding of Boston with molasses and the flooding of Dublin with whiskey, I wouldn't see anything like this anymore...
Human beings never learn. Never.
All we're missing is a Crushed by Hotdogs video.
Ikr! How does this keep happening? 😂
aaaand flooding of São Lourenço with wine just happened
oh yeah I forgot about the dublin whiskey....
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.
You could say they had a drink of a lifetime
A sadistic god with a dark sense of humour? You mean like pedophile priests, that sort of thing. Yeah, funny that. 😂
Right!!
The proof is drowning people attending a wake. What kind of irony is that?
@classicmicroscopy9398 especially considering majority of those who died were not even beer drinkers (children, women, etc...)
Disgusting how the owners in these situations are never held accountable.
ikr ... even back then we were weak, not having brought justice to them when the justice system is corrupt
C A P I T A L I S M
Man really just called people that got fucked by a flood of alcohol weak
Cause there was no way to prove that a slipped band, at the time, would result in a catastrophic failure of the vat.
One of them was probably the coroner
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.
And then stayed in Business another 107 years, the least they could have done was hand over the proceeds of their "Looky-Lou" fund.
“Act of god” ffs. More like “poor peoples’ lives are completely valueless”.
Alcohol was quite valuable back in the days before the internet.
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.
@@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.
Considering how the iron bands slipping was apparently a common problem, it's astonishing how this didn't happen sooner.
It would seem to be a red flag. But people probably got used to seeing them slipping and thought nothing of it.
There is always a first time. Rules and regulations then follow.
@@angelkilier and then the pushback against 'big goobermint' begins. and the foolish are swayed.
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The "anonymous contributor" to the newspaper had a very valid point and their view of the situation makes perfect sense.
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............
No it doesn't. It's just blaming the easiest thing they can think of. By that logic water towers should be banned too.
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.
@@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....
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
thank you for this visual, i was having a hard time truly grasping how much ale there was ❤
Yes, that does create an excellent visual to better comprehend the tragedy.
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?
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?
@@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.
"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.
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".
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
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.
Mr. Rogers was the man.
@@letterfella Yes, the great Fred Rogers. He heard it from his mother.
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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**
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.
@@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 !
Took the words right out of my mouth.
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
@@brianedwards7142An Aussie that doesnt like beer 🧐
"No harm whatsoever would ensue." I'll take foreshadowing for $400 Alex.
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.
Mmm, 😋 chocolate 🍫!
Great comment
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.
I've never heard of that one.
@@daffers2345I never heard about that! Right during their Easter rush 😢😢
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.
Raised in the US what...? 😁
@@stevetournay6103 shee sayed "razed in US edumactional sisdum" ken you speek inglish?
"The flood was around a 5th of the miles converted to the weight of around 450 elephants"
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.
This one sounds along the same lines as the Dublin Whiskey flood and the Boston Molasses flood. Just crazy stuff.
I'm really, really impressed that our host was able to clearly enunciate the phrase "took the jury to the brewery."
Just saw something on the news about a town in Portugal being flooded with wine.
Ikr, what a coincidence!
Whoever that "friend of humanity" was, they were spitting facts!
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.
Perhaps your cat was asking you for a beer?
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.
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Travesty on tragedy, actually.
@@thereisnosanctuary6184 209 years ago, yes. Point?
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Outrage has died down a tad.
@@stevetournay6103 How many people did you know from that time period?
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.
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.
@@quillmaurer6563Wow. Let's hope they never have a catastrophic event.
@@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.
@@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.
@@quillmaurer6563 But the beer would definitely be in the fish!
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.
Seems fishy.
@@ShinyHelmet I agree, something about this just doesn't hold water.
@@WobblesandBean I'd try to make a fish joke here, but I would probably flounder.
@@Otakunopodcast We will let you off the hook.
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 👍🏼
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?
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.
Unfortunately he used two measurements which aren't British. We use Imperial Gallons.
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.
@@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!!!
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
Wear the mask. Safety for grandma
Take the booster shot
Mandated safety lock downs
You are sheep
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Exactly, today no one would even attempt to build a wooden barrel and expect it to hold millions of gallons of liquid.
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.
I had the same thought about concrete. The truth is that even stainless steel can fail if not properly maintained.
Entropy will eventually come for us all
@@eywine.7762 Well, that answers the question I was about to ask. 🙂
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.
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."
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
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@DontReadMyProfilePicture.104Did you read the pinned comment 😅
Man that whole alcohol instead of water thing is still up in the air, it’s still argued it was purely preference
@@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.
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.
I was horrified at what I saw in the Gin Lane depiction. Now I'm going to look up Beer Street. Thanks.
@@missywink1504It's a huge contrast to Gin Lane.
An excellent observation: Hogarth's contrasting the "evil" of gin with the "wholesomeness" of beer.
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.
Good luck with the story I am intreasted in it.
First draft 😂
@@maryeckel9682 🤣 I see what you did there.
Quite timely since a town in Portugal is currently flooded by two million liters worth of wine
Oh my 😮😮
And the company has said they will fund the cleanup.
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.
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?
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
Huh. I actually went to that theater often when I lived in London. I had no idea the location had such a dark past.
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.
Didn't ask
@@BenoitRAG3Who the heck are you to tell the rest of us what we can find interesting? 😂
@@crow-jane I am me, you are you. Is there some confusion?
@@BenoitRAG3 None. You’re clearly an ass, or a child, or both, but I was hoping to not have to spell it out.
This sounds very similar to the Dublin whiskey flood that you covered about a year ago
Thank you, knew id heard of another unusual flood, but couldn't remember where
Thanks for being 100th commentator to poiht that out
@@BenoitRAG3 You are very welcome! Anything to help!
quit trying to take credit for others failures.@@inconnu4961
That picture of Gin Lane, though . . . Very creepy.
Man, just imagine going out like that, awashed in beer. This one is a deadly oddity indeed.
This is most men's dream death! LOL
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.
The poor didn't matter to them at all.
@@maryeckel9682 Indeed not.
I think the worst part is that they charged people to view the flood
Yes. Quite reprehensible.
well if life gives you lemons, sell them ^^
@@kirakaffee9976 when life kills people, sell viewing features
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.
Every single time! But yeah the idea that they got compensation so they wouldn’t go out of business was salt in the wound.
@@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.
@@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.
I never heard of this incident before. Brings to mind the molasses flood in Boston.
Love you’re videos. Always very interesting and informative. Keep up the good work.
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
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 🙂
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..
Having two measurement systems really is a youtuber's best friend, it means you can get that required ad time more easily.
One of the best channels on UA-cam!
Putting out interesting and unique videos as always!
I look forward to your videos every single Tuesday, thank you so much
love the content man, keep it up!
"Act of god", interesting verdict, sounds like something that would happen today for a major corporations gross negligence.
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.
@@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?
@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Jury to Brewery is now my favorite phrase. Thank you, sir.
Now, if the brewery had been located on Drury Lane . . .
@@schroedingersdog7965 🤯
This is probably the last thing I'm watching before going to sleep near 6 am lol
Get some rest and all the best. 🇬🇧
Bruh might as well get ready for the day 😂😂
@@beanutbutterbaus i didnt have to do anything until the afternoon akshsj
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!
Another excellent episode of a strange and tragic event, thank you Sir!!!🙏😢🍻🤷❣️
Such a good channel for becoming a more aware and problem solving person
Ya stories never cease to amaze ,never heard of this 1 ,keep up the good work 👏
So interesting! Your stories always are. Such a tragedy. You do such fantastic research.
This reminds me of the molasses flood in Boston, MA.
0:27 this is an absolute tragedy and I'm giggling about the shape on the map... I'm a child sometimes I stg
Ahhh! You did this one! Thank you!
Very interesting. Great research. Thank you
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!
Thank you and have a good week.
Great work, as always. I salute you!
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
I have never heard of a Russian Pepsi flood, and now I must.
This puts a whole new context on the term “beer run”
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.
Interesting video. Similar to the molasses flood in the US. Not sure if you've Done an video on that incident yet.
I think so 🤔
Also the whiskey flood/fire in Dublin!
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.
Drowning in beer...ick!
Very terrible and sad though.
Thanks for the video FH! 👍🏼
People new to FH don’t realize that regardless of the circumstances of these tragedies we don’t really do the trolling or low brow crud because we actually respect the lives lost in these events. Like ok “HAHA BEER!!” Clever. Meanwhile innocent people died in a very messed up way, children included. And I can’t imagine being in mourning for one person to only have some freak event end up taking the lives of those at the wake.
Exactly. One of the many things I like about this channel.
Making jokes about free beer is natural until it's revealed that several people died. Let's not be too prudish. ✌️
@@pakde8002 Being prudish is their favorite hobby! their 2nd favorite is being hypocritical!
There has been a wine flood in Portugal due to a similar burst. Fortunately no loss of life.
Thank you. I didn't know the inspiration for Hogarth's print or the origin of the name "porter" for that type of booze.
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.
And just recently there was a wine flood in Portugal.
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.)
Imagine a 4 meter high wave of beer, what a sight to see
Thank you for this video. I have heard about this tragedy.
I can't even fathom how this looked.
Puts a whole new meaning to drowning in beer. Not as nice an experience as college frat boys would make you think
I love the spooky music !
This is a fascinating topic to discuss. We look forward to see more content that are intriguing as well as educational.
It's 5:21 AM in the Eastern US when I'm watching this, 6-minutes after it was posted.
Good morning. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
The company faced no penalty and even received a bailout from the government. Madness.
Heh. Most places in the world it'd happen again now. There'd at least be lawsuits, though.
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
You sir, have now covered all THREE of the non-water floods that were in Sam O’Nella’s video. Congratulations!
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.
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.
Good video thanks.
gives new meaning to the term; dead drunk
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.
I’m getting a serious sense of Deja vu from the molasses and whiskey floods in Boston and Dublin
I first heard about this on Tasting History. Very sad, and the subsequent responsibility-dodging of those responsible makes it worse.
finally subscribed after watching for over a year.
Weird timing. This video was posted on Sept. 12th, 2023. Two days ago, on Sept. 10, 2023, there was a wine flood in Sāi Lourenço do Barrio, Portugal. Two tanks of red wine burst and spilled about 2.2 million litres, or 581,000 gallons of wine into the streets.
If only this would happen to me !! Cheers 🎉
Fascinating part of it is that it happened in 1814, more than 200 years ago.
So sad. On a LNER train to London. Now I have something new to explore there.