This is hands-down the best UA-cam channel on London. As a London busker I would love you to devote one of your shows to street entertainment and buskers in London. You're an absolute gem.
Very well done! I was a brewery owner and brewer for many years. A few historical beer factoids; India pale ales, IPA's, were heavily hopped and bitter to preserve them for the trip to India. Kent Golding hopps are still the preferred hopps for english ales. They do not grow well in the states, though I have cour vines, selected from hundreds, that do grow well in our climate. Marris otter barley is so flavorful that it outshines barley grown in Americar to the extent that English style ales made with American barley is noticably inferior. Session beers arr si named because they were originally made to drink during an extended brake taken by a factory worker. They were lower in alcohol so as to entice the worker to have another before returning to work. Beer is fun.
I just discovered your channel today. I love it! I was in the United States Airforce and stationed in East Anglia. A good friend that I grew up with was stationed just outside of London. Needless to say I visited him and fell in love with London. I love learning more about that incredible city! I do miss English pubs and a proper pint of Bitter.
My dad was stationed in London during the 90s. I've always wanted to visit and have always been a history nerd, so this channel is amazing! Glad to know I'm not the only new comer!
They use hops concentrate for brewing beers these days. That's why trade volumes are much smaller now. That sticky substance actually is not black but yellow. It is called lupulin. It is similar to oils of cannabis in it's properties (hops is in the same family of plants) - it is very sticky, very bitter and becomes black on dirty hands. Although it has no mind altering properties.
My late Mum was born in Surrey in 1936. She and her Mum spent the long school summer holiday hop picking. This is WHY we have the 6 week Summer holiday.
Similar conditions in the US where children used to help parents with the fruit harvest especially but now mostly migrant workers do the job. They are the reason we have lettuce and strawberries.
As there is no hop picking perhaps our children's education might benefit with a 2 -3 week holiday instead of the 6 week holiday which puts unnecessary pressure on parents.
The six week summer holidays were for the agricultural harvest in general. In industrial cities of the north they had wakes weeks instead. Periods when the factories and mills shut.
Back in 2009, we examined the interiors of the Hops Exchange as we wandered around Southwark, taking in the Borough Market, and having luncheon in the Wheatsheaf Pub. Then we wandered across the Thames to scale the Monument (garnering a certificate!), finishing off with a pint at The Walrus & The Carpenter. Then we found our way to London Bridge Station to catch the train south to Sevenoaks to enjoy dinner near our lodgings down in Brastead (near the hopping areas referenced in your video). We dined in the Anchor, as well as the Founders Arms (where Londoners drank as they watched the city burn in 1666), on another day up via train.
I cannot stretch how much I love your channel. You showed up on my shorts and I've never been interested in beer's origin. Yet, here I am, loving every bit of it. Thank you for taking me back to London with every video 🥰.
I was taken hop picking as a (very) young child in the early sixties. Mum was a school cook, and they're not too busy, or paid, during the school holidays. She didn't remember it fondly, and we used to go home in the evenings.
Apparently, some noble lady asked Dr Johnson why he had mistakenly defined some horse-riding term in his new dictionary. He replied, "Ignorance, madam, pure bloody ignorance."
The little General Haynau story is so funny 😂 Imagine some General with the grandiose moustache of Austrians and German nobles being chased around a pub in London and hiding in a bin
I don't know how I ended up here but boy o boy have I ever liked a you tube channel as instantaneously as this one? A lot has to do with the way you tell your stories. Absolutely love them.
One thing not mentioned is something from the other side of the river: To ensure the quality of trades, tradesmen in the City of London organised themselves into guilds called Livery Companies. One of these Livery Companies is the Worshipful Company of Brewers. The way they monitored the quality of beer brewed and sold in the city was in a ceremony called "Ale Conning". During the ceremony two Ale Conners sample some newly brewed beer and declare it either good, or bad, to the Lord Mayor of London, in the presence of Citizens of the City. One of the quirks is that everyone involved (with a speaking role) speaks in rhyme. The ceremony fell into disuse in the second half of the 20th century, but there has been recent moves to restart it. There's a Pathé video of the first ceremony since the Second World War (in 1947), with State Trumpeters from the Household Cavalry in their State Uniform (only worn in the presence of members of the Royal Family or the Lord Mayor of London, who traditionally pays for the uniform), which is somewhere on UA-cam.
I've been a fan of this channel for a little while now and I have to say that this is one of my favorites. J. keeps me engaged with intelligence and easy wit and is completely charming and warm in presentation of some of the most fascinating facts. I love to get a warm mug of coffee and watch these videos. Just excellent!
As a very small child I went hop picking with relatives in Kent in the late 1950s. I still have photos and 8mm cine film. For my relatives in the East End it was a working holiday. East London schools of the 1930s were very tolerant of children starting late in September as it was so commonplace due to hop picking. Ale was usually defined as not having hops. And I've been to that Pepys mentioned pub many times. Hops were used medicinally at least as far back as Roman times. 'Beer' in whatever form is believed to have originated as an offshoot of making bread. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, some 4000 years old, is mentioned a woman named Siduri, a tavern owner, supplying some kind of beer or at least alcoholic beverage.
I remember when I was a student, we’ll went down to Kent to do hop picking, or cob nut, or fruit picking. It was great fun. You met loads of people, it was a bit like a Glastonbury type scene. The pay was quite good and it was like a summer holiday.
Washington state has roughly 96% of hops acreage in the US. The other states don't even come close. The United States produces around 40% of the world's supply and 39% of the world acreage. If wildfires take out the farms, beer around the world will get very expensive like it did in 2006-2007.
The main reason more hops were used in beer is because without refrigeration, beer goes off quicker, and with less precise tools, beer more frequently contains compounds which make it taste bad, the flavor of which hops does a good job of masking. This exact same phenomenon is why the American craft beer scene today features hops so prominently: Crummy brewers making beer with bad ingredients and poor technique can use more hops to conceal the beer's flaws. And now over-hopped beers have, perversely, become associated with craft beer, and some drinkers have acquired a taste for them.
I don’t doubt there’s a beer or two where your statement holds true but most breweries don’t only serve IPAs or hop-forward beers because most people don’t want to only drink bitter, pine-tasting beers. If I’m honest, it sounds like you haven’t really had anything other than grocery-store varieties of “craft” beer from the US.
I’ll bet I can smell the brewery in my mind. I come from Western Colorado, and near my dad’s hometown of Montrose-Olathe, was a town called Delta, where beets were reduced into sugar, and the process stinks horribly. As I understand it, the process of fermentation of beer and that of sugar beets smells much the same.
For a while I lived about 500m from a large brewery. The wind usually blew from me to them, but my nose told me when it reversed. Not outright disgusting but "yuck".
A measure of the importance of beer to London is that the cellar of St. Pancras Station was designed to store barrels of beer. The pillars that hold up the ceiling are supposedly spaced to maximize the number of barrels that could be stored there.
I would love if you did a full video on the London Beer Flood of 1814, I know you did a short but I want to learn more and can't find any good sources other than like Wikipedia hahaha
It's not in Southwark, but I'm a little surprised you didn't mention St. Pancras station. A few months ago I watched the documentary about the renovation of the station, and the lower level where the shops and waiting area are (the undercroft) was originally used to store barrels of beer that was brought in from another city (I'm forgetting the name) that was the center of beer brewing in the UK in the 1800s into the 1900s. Apparently, St. Pancras spent a few decades as the main point of beer distribution for London.
and another beer factoid I just remembered! During the cholera epidemic where John Snow figured out it was a contaminated water pump, the one nearby location where nobody got infected was a brewery, because the men working there only drank beer, not water.
Shoutout from Sydney, Australia. If you get locked up in Australia (and hopefully you don't). You'll find lots of home brewed beer knocking about and they don't actually taste that bad.🤔 This is the recipe I always use... Ingredients: *Save up all the apples and pears you get,(we always get a piece of fruit at lunch) until you have approx 20. *Also save up all the small jam packets that come in your breakfast packs as well. Minimum amount 20 packets (the more jam you put in the better). *1 slice of bread. *A small amount of Vegemite(ie 1 small packet). Method: *Cut all the fruit up into small pieces (using the sharpened lid of a tuna can as a knife). *Place all your chopped fruit and all of your jam into a rice cooker and cover with approx 4 Liters of water. *Bring it all to a light boil and Simmer gently until your fruit softens (approx 5 minutes). Then cover and allow the mixture to cool until it's luke warm. *Poor the entire contents of the rice cooker into a black garbage bag. Then use your hands to massage the garbage bag until you've squashed and switched all the fruit into a past (IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't place your hands inside the garbage bag or touch the mixture with your bear hands in anyway. Doing this will course the Brew to turn sour and you'll end up making vinegar instead of beer). *Spread your Vegemite onto your slice of bread. Then pop the bread into the garbage bag. *Tie a knot in the garbage bag, then wrap it in a blanket. Find somewhere to hide your home brew for approx 7 to 10 days. * Every 24 hours you must burp your brew. To do this simply untie the knot in the garbage bag to release the built up gas. If you don't do this, the garbage bag will explode (the production of this gas [carbon dioxide] is an indication that you are succeeding in fermentation). *After approx 7 to 10 days strain your home brew though a clean t-shirt to remove any chunks. THEN BON APPETIT!.. Poor yourself a Nice big cup of maximum security ale! Enjoy😋
We have a local pub called the George Hotel which was a coaching inn. Next to the doors where the coach entered is what is the smallest window in Britain. The window was used to see when the coach was outside so they could let it in. As for the stage it too has a connection. There was a performer appear at a club called to Subway Club. He was there all week but was doing poorly. He spent the afternoon in George Hotel and then left the pub rather the worst for drink to the to club to do his act. Being drunk he started to talk to the audience who started to laugh. From then on he changed his act and became famous, even appearing in his own TV shows. The name of this entertainer. Les Dawson
Fun Fact: The Gordon Riots are named after my 9th Cousin 6x removed, Lord George Gordon, son of the 3rd Duke of Gordon, and basis for the character of the same name in Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty"
If I understand distant cousins rightly, and I think I do, that means your 14 x great grandparent was his 8 x great grandparent. How on earth do you know that?? You’d have to trace back to the 16th century at least!
@@Emmet_Moore In fact Lord George Gordon and my shared ancestor is Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly. He was born in the 15th Century. I'm quite interested in history, particularly my own family history and have traced at least a couple of branches all the way back to Charlemagne and Cerdic, 1st King of Wessex via both Scottish and English royal families. I'm not special though as I read somewhere that at least 97% of all modern people of Anglo-Saxon descent are descended from the English royal family at some point, most of us from Edward III and earlier. I'm just lucky I found an ancestor with an important enough job that their family records had been taken good care of.
@@AndrewJamesGordon That’s so cool! I’ve researched my family tree a fair amount, but basically every line goes dry in about 1830 because they were just labourers/dockers/weavers. I traced one line on my mum’s side to the 1760s because a parish church in Blackburn happened to keep quite good records.
2:00 Worth remember that historically, Southwark was extremely close to Kent. In fact what is now the southeastern boundary of the London Borough of Southwark was the historic boundary between the counties of Surrey and Kent. I've been past that building hundreds of times and barely noticed it.
Love the channel! The context around the history is incredible. BTW, which “Anchor” and “the George” are the ones to visit? I tried Googling and there seem to be several of each. (Visiting London soon; not sure how many pubs I can convince my wife are historic sites.)
My son's first word I won't say which one (To save his blushes) BEER... (We were on our way from London to a Wedding in Ireland - must have been epigenetic😂)
You’re looking lovely today, and ver informative as usual. The state of North Carolina is exploding with small and medium craft breweries. Good beer too. It’s getting hard to find any st Peters Ale
Back about a decade ago, I won a couple of awards in local beer brewing competitions using hops from Kent. They're called "East Kent Goldings," or EKGs, which always made me think of the heart monitor. Pointless story for you.
My school was (maybe still is) sponsored by the worshipful company of brewers in London. The school badge is 3 beer barrels. The school is called Dame Alice Owens. The school was started in the 17th century and the kids were given beer money because it was safer than water. In the 90s when I was there we were still given 'beer money' in a ceremony each year... The school also had their own private members sports club across town where you could legally be served at 17 years old. Teachers went down on Friday nights to make sure 6th formers stayed under control.... and just to be clear... this is a state school (free to attend).
Interesting video. I would actually say we grow fewer hops now because we like beer to be *more* bitter, opting for imported hops which have a higher Alpha Acid content than British hops and being more piney, zesty, and bitter flavour.
Here’s and interesting tidbit related to hop-picking: Catherine Eddowes, the penultimate canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, had just returned from hop-picking in Kent with her partner two days before she was murdered!
Actually, hops are grown on bines, and the flower is called a cone. Those are facts I learned quickly living in Yakima, where most of the world's hops are grown. Another fun fact: Hops and marijuana are related.
Hello, I do not know for certain if you or any other person might see this to answer. However, my curiosity begs me to try. You mention a company by the name of Lyons, is that the same company that makes cakes and confectionery to this day, many thanks. Graham.
J. (I don't know what to call you! I did search but couldn't find your forename) A good show and great interesting facts (many of which you got right that a lot of other "guides" get wrong, like the Hop Exchange was never used for trading hops!) Apart from calling it a vine rather than a bine, very good. I think calling it "Beer" was a little misleading, as very little of the show was about beer itself. Maybe you can re-title it "Beer Pt 1" as there is so much more about beer in London and Southwark in particular. To save you Googling me, I am the owner of Southwark Brewing Company down by Tower Bridge in Druid Street and I have a self interest in this subject! Until lockdown, I did a brewery tour every Saturday for an hour, which frustrated me as it wasn't enough time to tell all the stories of brewing and brewing history. Once a month I host an extended tour for an hour and a half, which is much better, but I have been known to tell stories for over 3 hours when people want to listen, and I am no expert! If you want to do a "Pt 2" I would love to collaborate with you. Add the stories of John Courage at the site by Tower Bridge, Winchester Geese and Cross Bones Yard, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Tabard Inn. Not to mention the pub games they used to play....... And I haven't even mentioned the resurgence of craft brewing in Southwark which is (or was!) in full swing giving an up to date context to the history, of which we are only one of many. Give me a shout on peter@southwarkbrewing.co.uk and I would love to help.... particulry now whilst I am going mad in lockdown :)
I would politely suggest that you read "The Devil In The Marshalsea" by Antonia Hodgson, because if there was any work to highlight how desperately fucked up that place was, it's that one.
Hello from Sydney, Australia. Your correct home made beer must be drunk straight away after fermentation. If you ever happen get locked up in Australia (and hopefully you don't). You'll find lots of home brewed beer knocking about and they don't actually taste that bad.🤔 This is the recipe I always use... Ingredients: *Save up all the apples and pears you get,(we always get a piece of fruit at lunch) until you have approx 20. *Also save up all the small jam packets that come in your breakfast packs as well. Minimum amount 20 packets (the more jam you put in the better). *1 slice of bread. *A small amount of Vegemite(ie 1 small packet). Method: *Cut all the fruit up into small pieces (using the sharpened lid of a tuna can as a knife). *Place all your chopped fruit and all of your jam into a rice cooker and cover with approx 4 Liters of water. *Bring it all to a light boil and Simmer gently until your fruit softens (approx 5 minutes). Then cover and allow the mixture to cool until it's luke warm. *Poor the entire contents of the rice cooker into a black garbage bag. Then use your hands to massage the garbage bag until you've squashed and switched all the fruit into a past (IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't place your hands inside the garbage bag or touch the mixture with your bear hands in anyway. Doing this will course the Brew to turn sour and you'll end up making vinegar instead of beer). *Spread your Vegemite onto your slice of bread. Then pop the bread into the garbage bag. *Tie a knot in the garbage bag, then wrap it in a blanket. Find somewhere to hide your home brew for approx 7 to 10 days. * Every 24 hours you must burp your brew. To do this simply untie the knot in the garbage bag to release the built up gas. If you don't do this, the garbage bag will explode (the production of this gas [carbon dioxide] is an indication that you are succeeding in fermentation). *After approx 7 to 10 days strain your home brew though a clean t-shirt to remove any chunks. THEN BON APPETIT!.. Poor yourself a Nice big cup of maximum security ale! Enjoy😋
If that big brewery was part of the Gordon Riots, what was the brewery in Martin Chuzlewit that got burned down by the rioters? I remember Dickens saying that the rioters were drinking boiling beer off the cobblestone street. Of course that is a classic Dickens myth, but was there actually a brewery that got burned down in the riot? I’m from Canada so I know nothing. I just read a lot of Dickens as a child.
Paying people in beer so they have barely enough calories to come in the next day and earn more beer. There's a book my friend Karl wrote they should read.
I love you Channel - food what is native English fare- when I visited the UK - lol being called a yank in my sailor uniform but I saw blood sausage - tea time the list goes on - so with all the patch work of invaders what would be considered true English fare? ThankYou so much your amazing!!
I really enjoy your videos, but could you increase the volume? I'm a bit deaf and miss some of what you say, in spite of my having the volume as high as it will go (for other people's videos, my volume is turned to half).
British sailors used to get a gallon of beer a day, at twice. (Half a gallon twice a day.) That was in "home waters." In the Med, they drank a quart of wine at twice. And farther away, they drank rum. They drank a pint of rum (half a pint twice a day). Without their alcohol, the British Navy would not have functioned.
This is hands-down the best UA-cam channel on London.
As a London busker I would love you to devote one of your shows to street entertainment and buskers in London. You're an absolute gem.
You probably haven't seen Joolz Guides videos yet!
@@DavidWilliams-DSW558 thanks for the tip! I wanted to research buskers and had not encountered Joolz. ✌🖖
Very well done! I was a brewery owner and brewer for many years.
A few historical beer factoids;
India pale ales, IPA's, were heavily hopped and bitter to preserve them for the trip to India.
Kent Golding hopps are still the preferred hopps for english ales. They do not grow well in the states, though I have cour vines, selected from hundreds, that do grow well in our climate.
Marris otter barley is so flavorful that it outshines barley grown in Americar to the extent that English style ales made with American barley is noticably inferior.
Session beers arr si named because they were originally made to drink during an extended brake taken by a factory worker. They were lower in alcohol so as to entice the worker to have another before returning to work.
Beer is fun.
I just discovered your channel today. I love it! I was in the United States Airforce and stationed in East Anglia. A good friend that I grew up with was stationed just outside of London. Needless to say I visited him and fell in love with London. I love learning more about that incredible city! I do miss English pubs and a proper pint of Bitter.
Same here, craving for more videos
My dad was stationed in London during the 90s. I've always wanted to visit and have always been a history nerd, so this channel is amazing! Glad to know I'm not the only new comer!
They use hops concentrate for brewing beers these days. That's why trade volumes are much smaller now. That sticky substance actually is not black but yellow. It is called lupulin. It is similar to oils of cannabis in it's properties (hops is in the same family of plants) - it is very sticky, very bitter and becomes black on dirty hands. Although it has no mind altering properties.
Until its turned into beer
My late Mum was born in Surrey in 1936. She and her Mum spent the long school summer holiday hop picking. This is WHY we have the 6 week Summer holiday.
Similar conditions in the US where children used to help parents with the fruit harvest especially but now mostly migrant workers do the job. They are the reason we have lettuce and strawberries.
As there is no hop picking perhaps our children's education might benefit with a 2 -3 week holiday instead of the 6 week holiday which puts unnecessary pressure on parents.
The six week summer holidays were for the agricultural harvest in general.
In industrial cities of the north they had wakes weeks instead.
Periods when the factories and mills shut.
Back in 2009, we examined the interiors of the Hops Exchange as we wandered around Southwark, taking in the Borough Market, and having luncheon in the Wheatsheaf Pub. Then we wandered across the Thames to scale the Monument (garnering a certificate!), finishing off with a pint at The Walrus & The Carpenter. Then we found our way to London Bridge Station to catch the train south to Sevenoaks to enjoy dinner near our lodgings down in Brastead (near the hopping areas referenced in your video). We dined in the Anchor, as well as the Founders Arms (where Londoners drank as they watched the city burn in 1666), on another day up via train.
I cannot stretch how much I love your channel. You showed up on my shorts and I've never been interested in beer's origin. Yet, here I am, loving every bit of it. Thank you for taking me back to London with every video 🥰.
I was taken hop picking as a (very) young child in the early sixties. Mum was a school cook, and they're not too busy, or paid, during the school holidays. She didn't remember it fondly, and we used to go home in the evenings.
A 17th-century dictionary has made me audibly laugh with the definition of a politician. Top class.
Devil's dictionary?
Apparently, some noble lady asked Dr Johnson why he had mistakenly defined some horse-riding term in his new dictionary. He replied, "Ignorance, madam, pure bloody ignorance."
@@virgilxavier1 Johnson's dictionary, as stated in the video. The "Devil's Dictionary" was 19th century, IIRC
The little General Haynau story is so funny 😂 Imagine some General with the grandiose moustache of Austrians and German nobles being chased around a pub in London and hiding in a bin
I don't know how I ended up here but boy o boy have I ever liked a you tube channel as instantaneously as this one?
A lot has to do with the way you tell your stories. Absolutely love them.
One thing not mentioned is something from the other side of the river:
To ensure the quality of trades, tradesmen in the City of London organised themselves into guilds called Livery Companies. One of these Livery Companies is the Worshipful Company of Brewers. The way they monitored the quality of beer brewed and sold in the city was in a ceremony called "Ale Conning". During the ceremony two Ale Conners sample some newly brewed beer and declare it either good, or bad, to the Lord Mayor of London, in the presence of Citizens of the City. One of the quirks is that everyone involved (with a speaking role) speaks in rhyme.
The ceremony fell into disuse in the second half of the 20th century, but there has been recent moves to restart it. There's a Pathé video of the first ceremony since the Second World War (in 1947), with State Trumpeters from the Household Cavalry in their State Uniform (only worn in the presence of members of the Royal Family or the Lord Mayor of London, who traditionally pays for the uniform), which is somewhere on UA-cam.
I've been a fan of this channel for a little while now and I have to say that this is one of my favorites. J. keeps me engaged with intelligence and easy wit and is completely charming and warm in presentation of some of the most fascinating facts. I love to get a warm mug of coffee and watch these videos. Just excellent!
As a very small child I went hop picking with relatives in Kent in the late 1950s. I still have photos and 8mm cine film. For my relatives in the East End it was a working holiday. East London schools of the 1930s were very tolerant of children starting late in September as it was so commonplace due to hop picking. Ale was usually defined as not having hops. And I've been to that Pepys mentioned pub many times. Hops were used medicinally at least as far back as Roman times. 'Beer' in whatever form is believed to have originated as an offshoot of making bread. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, some 4000 years old, is mentioned a woman named Siduri, a tavern owner, supplying some kind of beer or at least alcoholic beverage.
I no longer drink beer, but this made me want to do it again. Thank you! A marvelous post!
I remember when I was a student, we’ll went down to Kent to do hop picking, or cob nut, or fruit picking. It was great fun. You met loads of people, it was a bit like a Glastonbury type scene. The pay was quite good and it was like a summer holiday.
I can highly recommend The Anchor, especially if you visit the Globe theatre. It is really cosy and serves excellent food, too!
I can't get enough of your videos!
I will say this is one of the few channels I will watch all the ads in their entirety. You are very underrated.
Washington state has roughly 96% of hops acreage in the US. The other states don't even come close. The United States produces around 40% of the world's supply and 39% of the world acreage. If wildfires take out the farms, beer around the world will get very expensive like it did in 2006-2007.
The story about Hay Nau is genuinely hilarious.
That thing they did with the Tavern reminds me of a pubcrawl my hostel in London Set up every night
The main reason more hops were used in beer is because without refrigeration, beer goes off quicker, and with less precise tools, beer more frequently contains compounds which make it taste bad, the flavor of which hops does a good job of masking. This exact same phenomenon is why the American craft beer scene today features hops so prominently: Crummy brewers making beer with bad ingredients and poor technique can use more hops to conceal the beer's flaws. And now over-hopped beers have, perversely, become associated with craft beer, and some drinkers have acquired a taste for them.
The true traditional taste: hiding the fact its gone off and tastes like mouldy dishwater.
I don’t doubt there’s a beer or two where your statement holds true but most breweries don’t only serve IPAs or hop-forward beers because most people don’t want to only drink bitter, pine-tasting beers. If I’m honest, it sounds like you haven’t really had anything other than grocery-store varieties of “craft” beer from the US.
Noooo why are you ruining craft beer like this, how can I be a hipster now 😢
@@GMovieSeekerThe truth shall set you free. You're welcome.
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I’ll bet I can smell the brewery in my mind. I come from Western Colorado, and near my dad’s hometown of Montrose-Olathe, was a town called Delta, where beets were reduced into sugar, and the process stinks horribly. As I understand it, the process of fermentation of beer and that of sugar beets smells much the same.
For a while I lived about 500m from a large brewery. The wind usually blew from me to them, but my nose told me when it reversed. Not outright disgusting but "yuck".
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A measure of the importance of beer to London is that the cellar of St. Pancras Station was designed to store barrels of beer. The pillars that hold up the ceiling are supposedly spaced to maximize the number of barrels that could be stored there.
I would love if you did a full video on the London Beer Flood of 1814, I know you did a short but I want to learn more and can't find any good sources other than like Wikipedia hahaha
Every video is lovely. I'm going to get myself a beer.. The story about Hay Nau is genuinely hilarious..
It's not in Southwark, but I'm a little surprised you didn't mention St. Pancras station. A few months ago I watched the documentary about the renovation of the station, and the lower level where the shops and waiting area are (the undercroft) was originally used to store barrels of beer that was brought in from another city (I'm forgetting the name) that was the center of beer brewing in the UK in the 1800s into the 1900s. Apparently, St. Pancras spent a few decades as the main point of beer distribution for London.
and another beer factoid I just remembered! During the cholera epidemic where John Snow figured out it was a contaminated water pump, the one nearby location where nobody got infected was a brewery, because the men working there only drank beer, not water.
Burton on Trent - and it's still a centre for beer and houses the National Brewery Centre.
😊 Beautifully eloquent. Therefore interesting to follow💯%. Brava...!!!
Shoutout from Sydney, Australia.
If you get locked up in Australia (and hopefully you don't). You'll find lots of home brewed beer knocking about and they don't actually taste that bad.🤔
This is the recipe I always use...
Ingredients:
*Save up all the apples and pears you get,(we always get a piece of fruit at lunch) until you have approx 20.
*Also save up all the small jam packets that come in your breakfast packs as well. Minimum amount 20 packets (the more jam you put in the better).
*1 slice of bread.
*A small amount of Vegemite(ie 1 small packet).
Method:
*Cut all the fruit up into small pieces (using the sharpened lid of a tuna can as a knife).
*Place all your chopped fruit and all of your jam into a rice cooker and cover with approx 4 Liters of water.
*Bring it all to a light boil and Simmer gently until your fruit softens (approx 5 minutes). Then cover and allow the mixture to cool until it's luke warm.
*Poor the entire contents of the rice cooker into a black garbage bag. Then use your hands to massage the garbage bag until you've squashed and switched all the fruit into a past (IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't place your hands inside the garbage bag or touch the mixture with your bear hands in anyway. Doing this will course the Brew to turn sour and you'll end up making vinegar instead of beer).
*Spread your Vegemite onto your slice of bread. Then pop the bread into the garbage bag.
*Tie a knot in the garbage bag, then wrap it in a blanket. Find somewhere to hide your home brew for approx 7 to 10 days.
* Every 24 hours you must burp your brew. To do this simply untie the knot in the garbage bag to release the built up gas. If you don't do this, the garbage bag will explode (the production of this gas [carbon dioxide] is an indication that you are succeeding in fermentation).
*After approx 7 to 10 days strain your home brew though a clean t-shirt to remove any chunks.
THEN BON APPETIT!..
Poor yourself a Nice big cup of maximum security ale!
Enjoy😋
I’m going to study this & then travel to Australia. Thank you!
Wonderful episode, thank you!
Omg! Gonna so use this to do a tour of London with hubby
"The official giftshop" 😆😆
Another good one, really good editing & excellent image selection, thank you
That definition of ruse made me chuckle 😂😂
We have a local pub called the George Hotel which was a coaching inn. Next to the doors where the coach entered is what is the smallest window in Britain. The window was used to see when the coach was outside so they could let it in.
As for the stage it too has a connection. There was a performer appear at a club called to Subway Club. He was there all week but was doing poorly. He spent the afternoon in George Hotel and then left the pub rather the worst for drink to the to club to do his act. Being drunk he started to talk to the audience who started to laugh. From then on he changed his act and became famous, even appearing in his own TV shows. The name of this entertainer. Les Dawson
The George is one of my favourite pubs! Always finish have a pint there before catching the train home from London bridge when out on southbank.
Fun Fact: The Gordon Riots are named after my 9th Cousin 6x removed, Lord George Gordon, son of the 3rd Duke of Gordon, and basis for the character of the same name in Charles Dickens' novel "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty"
If I understand distant cousins rightly, and I think I do, that means your 14 x great grandparent was his 8 x great grandparent. How on earth do you know that?? You’d have to trace back to the 16th century at least!
@@Emmet_Moore In fact Lord George Gordon and my shared ancestor is Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly. He was born in the 15th Century. I'm quite interested in history, particularly my own family history and have traced at least a couple of branches all the way back to Charlemagne and Cerdic, 1st King of Wessex via both Scottish and English royal families.
I'm not special though as I read somewhere that at least 97% of all modern people of Anglo-Saxon descent are descended from the English royal family at some point, most of us from Edward III and earlier. I'm just lucky I found an ancestor with an important enough job that their family records had been taken good care of.
@@AndrewJamesGordon That’s so cool! I’ve researched my family tree a fair amount, but basically every line goes dry in about 1830 because they were just labourers/dockers/weavers. I traced one line on my mum’s side to the 1760s because a parish church in Blackburn happened to keep quite good records.
Thank you. Your commentary is great ❤️
2:00 Worth remember that historically, Southwark was extremely close to Kent. In fact what is now the southeastern boundary of the London Borough of Southwark was the historic boundary between the counties of Surrey and Kent. I've been past that building hundreds of times and barely noticed it.
best show yet!! thx. Almost worth puttin' London on the bucket list next to Dublin, Gdansk and Lviv. Many thanks
I need to remember to watch this video again before the next time I go to London.
Thank YOU very much and l look forward to seeing you next time.
well done as always.
An informative vid.
I got paid in champagne once, would've preferred to have been paid in beer to be honest!
I've been paid taxi fare in cheese cake and strawberry jam 😁
My understanding is Haynau got a thrashing / chased out of the pub is he was in charge of the retaliation of the hungarian rebelion in 1848.
Awesome story.
Cheers and bottoms up!
Love the channel! The context around the history is incredible. BTW, which “Anchor” and “the George” are the ones to visit? I tried Googling and there seem to be several of each. (Visiting London soon; not sure how many pubs I can convince my wife are historic sites.)
The Anchor is next to Cannon St rail bridge on the south bank of the Thames.
The George is on the east side of Borough High Street, a few minutes south of London Bridge.
You will walk past the Hop Exchange on the way.
My son's first word
I won't say which one
(To save his blushes)
BEER...
(We were on our way from London to a Wedding in Ireland - must have been epigenetic😂)
Fabulous!
This was great👏👏👏 thank you
You’re looking lovely today, and ver informative as usual.
The state of North Carolina is exploding with small and medium craft breweries. Good beer too. It’s getting hard to find any st Peters Ale
Every video is lovely. I'm going to get myself a beer.
Back about a decade ago, I won a couple of awards in local beer brewing competitions using hops from Kent. They're called "East Kent Goldings," or EKGs, which always made me think of the heart monitor. Pointless story for you.
Charming!
They general sounds like a real All Star
My school was (maybe still is) sponsored by the worshipful company of brewers in London. The school badge is 3 beer barrels. The school is called Dame Alice Owens. The school was started in the 17th century and the kids were given beer money because it was safer than water. In the 90s when I was there we were still given 'beer money' in a ceremony each year... The school also had their own private members sports club across town where you could legally be served at 17 years old. Teachers went down on Friday nights to make sure 6th formers stayed under control.... and just to be clear... this is a state school (free to attend).
I don’t drink alcohol but the history of beer is interesting. 🍺🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️
8:33 Haynau, haynau, don't dream it's over... 🎵
Interesting video. I would actually say we grow fewer hops now because we like beer to be *more* bitter, opting for imported hops which have a higher Alpha Acid content than British hops and being more piney, zesty, and bitter flavour.
Here’s and interesting tidbit related to hop-picking: Catherine Eddowes, the penultimate canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, had just returned from hop-picking in Kent with her partner two days before she was murdered!
Actually, hops are grown on bines, and the flower is called a cone. Those are facts I learned quickly living in Yakima, where most of the world's hops are grown. Another fun fact: Hops and marijuana are related.
Before we imported Hops, we would use Hyssop for beer
8:33 "...you're a Rockstar..."
0:11 - Cheater! That in front is "Monster" 😀
Is there a history of mead making in London (or Britain generally) that's worth an episode? (I make mead)
Hello,
I do not know for certain if you or any other person might see this to answer. However, my curiosity begs me to try. You mention a company by the name of Lyons, is that the same company that makes cakes and confectionery to this day,
many thanks.
Graham.
i love your crown of flowers!! i love your stories too! blessings mylady!
My family used to go hop-picking…I was just young enough to avoid it :)
This channel is so captivating, I got scurvy
J. (I don't know what to call you! I did search but couldn't find your forename) A good show and great interesting facts (many of which you got right that a lot of other "guides" get wrong, like the Hop Exchange was never used for trading hops!) Apart from calling it a vine rather than a bine, very good. I think calling it "Beer" was a little misleading, as very little of the show was about beer itself. Maybe you can re-title it "Beer Pt 1" as there is so much more about beer in London and Southwark in particular. To save you Googling me, I am the owner of Southwark Brewing Company down by Tower Bridge in Druid Street and I have a self interest in this subject! Until lockdown, I did a brewery tour every Saturday for an hour, which frustrated me as it wasn't enough time to tell all the stories of brewing and brewing history. Once a month I host an extended tour for an hour and a half, which is much better, but I have been known to tell stories for over 3 hours when people want to listen, and I am no expert! If you want to do a "Pt 2" I would love to collaborate with you. Add the stories of John Courage at the site by Tower Bridge, Winchester Geese and Cross Bones Yard, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Tabard Inn. Not to mention the pub games they used to play....... And I haven't even mentioned the resurgence
of craft brewing in Southwark which is (or was!) in full swing giving an up to date context to the history, of which we are only one of many. Give me a shout on peter@southwarkbrewing.co.uk and I would love to help.... particulry now whilst I am going mad in lockdown :)
Jenny
Mary & Ann gave England two great queens - Queen Elizabeth
I would politely suggest that you read "The Devil In The Marshalsea" by Antonia Hodgson, because if there was any work to highlight how desperately fucked up that place was, it's that one.
Also, unlike modern beer, it does not keep and must be drunk soon after brewing.
Hello from Sydney, Australia.
Your correct home made beer must be drunk straight away after fermentation.
If you ever happen get locked up in Australia (and hopefully you don't). You'll find lots of home brewed beer knocking about and they don't actually taste that bad.🤔
This is the recipe I always use...
Ingredients:
*Save up all the apples and pears you get,(we always get a piece of fruit at lunch) until you have approx 20.
*Also save up all the small jam packets that come in your breakfast packs as well. Minimum amount 20 packets (the more jam you put in the better).
*1 slice of bread.
*A small amount of Vegemite(ie 1 small packet).
Method:
*Cut all the fruit up into small pieces (using the sharpened lid of a tuna can as a knife).
*Place all your chopped fruit and all of your jam into a rice cooker and cover with approx 4 Liters of water.
*Bring it all to a light boil and Simmer gently until your fruit softens (approx 5 minutes). Then cover and allow the mixture to cool until it's luke warm.
*Poor the entire contents of the rice cooker into a black garbage bag. Then use your hands to massage the garbage bag until you've squashed and switched all the fruit into a past (IMPORTANT NOTE: Don't place your hands inside the garbage bag or touch the mixture with your bear hands in anyway. Doing this will course the Brew to turn sour and you'll end up making vinegar instead of beer).
*Spread your Vegemite onto your slice of bread. Then pop the bread into the garbage bag.
*Tie a knot in the garbage bag, then wrap it in a blanket. Find somewhere to hide your home brew for approx 7 to 10 days.
* Every 24 hours you must burp your brew. To do this simply untie the knot in the garbage bag to release the built up gas. If you don't do this, the garbage bag will explode (the production of this gas [carbon dioxide] is an indication that you are succeeding in fermentation).
*After approx 7 to 10 days strain your home brew though a clean t-shirt to remove any chunks.
THEN BON APPETIT!..
Poor yourself a Nice big cup of maximum security ale!
Enjoy😋
Love watching your videos. And you are so easy on the eyes. Love your costume changes also. Oh yes, I want a lot about the history there to.
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Your videos are inspiring. Your Brittish accent is lovely. Congratulations from Brazil
Hay nua your an allstar get your game on go play
If that big brewery was part of the Gordon Riots, what was the brewery in Martin Chuzlewit that got burned down by the rioters? I remember Dickens saying that the rioters were drinking boiling beer off the cobblestone street. Of course that is a classic Dickens myth, but was there actually a brewery that got burned down in the riot? I’m from Canada so I know nothing. I just read a lot of Dickens as a child.
Did england have root beer or just u.s.?
Why am I discovering this channel now??? What??
Paying people in beer so they have barely enough calories to come in the next day and earn more beer. There's a book my friend Karl wrote they should read.
wHo oRdered the tEriyAkI bURgEr
i knew beer was less alcoholic than today's beer but under 1% is WAY less than I thought. thats less than kombucha!
Stuff there is so old!!! I can’t even imagine that long ago!!!
"For most of our countries history we didn't even use spices"
So in essence Londoners for centuries were quite hopless...😉
One day I want you to take me on a tour of the pubs. Might need a few gos as I think... I may need reminders.
In case you have never seen the song about Beer. It's rather good :D ua-cam.com/video/YTxINWXNrPA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Rathergood
I love you Channel - food what is native English fare- when I visited the UK - lol being called a yank in my sailor uniform but I saw blood sausage - tea time the list goes on - so with all the patch work of invaders what would be considered true English fare?
ThankYou so much your amazing!!
Wow does she look beautiful or what?
I think I speak for all of us when I say I definitely would work for beer
I caught that Monster can at 00:10.
don't like hopps as much as we used to? must be in the UK because I cant walk two feet without seeing yet another nasty IPA.
Your hubby is lucky to have an interesting lady to talk with. Super fantastic vid. Cheers governess
She's just trying to scare the herds of guys away. Haha.
what about gin and london
Bear
I really enjoy your videos, but could you increase the volume? I'm a bit deaf and miss some of what you say, in spite of my having the volume as high as it will go (for other people's videos, my volume is turned to half).
Have you tried activating the subtitles? Hope it helps. All the best! 🍀
British sailors used to get a gallon of beer a day, at twice. (Half a gallon twice a day.) That was in "home waters." In the Med, they drank a quart of wine at twice. And farther away, they drank rum. They drank a pint of rum (half a pint twice a day). Without their alcohol, the British Navy would not have functioned.