How Did Humans Invent Alcohol?
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4:47 reference to Nord Mead by Miracle of Sound?
Hell yes!
Now that’s a next level reference. Level 2, to be exact.
But did you get the Faun - Tanz mit Mir reference at 11:56?
@@aydidchow7523 I bet I would have if I knew Faun-tanz mit mir beforehand.
Kenichi Otaku wut
I live on a 100 acre ranch in Texas. I have family of deer that live on my land and depending on how much hunting is going on in the surrounding ranches, there are 8-20 in my pasture each morning. When my fruit trees are done and I have picked all I need for the season, the deer come in and eat the rotting fermented fruit, get drunk and pass out. I have pictures of me standing right on top of 15 deer passed out, legs in the air snoring. It doesn't seem too far of a stretch to realize how humans found alcohol. Even Cro magnon and Neanderthal made drinking bowls found in their caves.
That's hilarious!! Amazing, nature knows best
Next time see if you can put party hats on them and get a photo of that.
I've seen elephants and baboons drunk on amarula fruits here in Africa. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen😂😂😂
too funny to not be real. Go Texas!
You gotta make a video with pics please
"Not an alcoholic, just German" seriously belongs on a tee shirt.
Sounds just like "I'm not gay, I'm British!" xD
I’m not a terrible driver, I’m just Russian.
AA stands for alcoholic Australian.
I must have German ancdstors
Started drinking since 15. Welcome to poland this is normal
Germanic tribes: *drinks beer*
Romans: *disgusted in wine noises*
The vodka belt: Please hold my vodka...
*Balkan slavs take a sip of rakija*
No matter where you stand on the alcohol type....we gabe the world pants....probably because pockets on pants makes it easy to carry beer around
But pants nonetheless
@@zefjiojzeffzejiojiozef9009 hehe
Romans: *[Gags in Vino]*
The pulque drink from Mexico mentioned in the video is the drink the Spaniards would distill when they ran out of brandy. This distilled product is what became known as tequila.
Thank god for them running out of brandy
But didn't the Aztecs drinked mezcal the predecessor of tequila
@@Bryan-bd5kc mezcal is also a distilled spirit, and distillation didn’t exist in Mexico until the arrival of Europeans.
I don’t know of mezcal came before tequila. It’s possible that the first tequila was very different from both mezcal and tequila, and then diverged but that’s just a wild guess on my part.
@@kckdude913 mezcal was around before the europeans came imma assume it was a different shitty variant back then from what I know the Spanish banned it during their rule that's how tequila was created and 30 years tequila wasn't the popular drink until Americans started advertised it
Actually Pulque was drunk by MesoAmericans along with spiced Chocolate prior to the Spanish.
Uniting Germany: drinking beer
I thought you were dead
Yep they started the 3rd Reich in a pub . Just like any successful organization.
How to make Germans mad?
Drink Radler infront of them
@@neptuneseye7832 How dare you even mention the name
We prefer Germany when not united.
Greetings,
The Netherlands,
Belgium,
Poland,
France,
The Jews,
Etcetera
Anyone else missing the pub
oath
I wasn't going to drink today until I seen this video. Time for a drink
Know what? I am missing the cigar bar. ...think of a pub with a walk-in humidor stocked with cigars and you just about got the right of it.
@@seancondon5572 that sure does sound Lovely. Cigars and Rum are two of my favourite things in life.
@@santocuban7086 I rather some nice scotch. But to each his own. I think once I manage to secure new employment, I might celebrate with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and a Cuban Montecristo... benefits of being a mere 45 minutes away from Canada... hour if the traffic is heavy.
What a coincidence, I'm drinking this while drunk
😂
What a coininkydink, I’m drunking this while drink
I'm trying to cure up my hangover with more beer
"Remeber dont drink and drive" well we seem to be on the way to doing neither
"I invite you all to drink along"
Bro it's only 9am right now. Calm down!
Have faith my children! I believe in you!
The suns over the yardarm somewhere!
its 5 o clock somewhere.... its not like our ancestors gave a hoot :P
its 4:50am over here and I got a beer
dont he a pussy
It's 4:00 pm somewhere...
I HATE April 1st videos because they range from slightly funny to very annoying, in my opinion. This is my version of an April 1st video. I hope you guys like it!
That great moment when your props are both drinkable and tax deductible.
Ps, I had originally planned to have accurate cups, flagons, etc for this video... But the quarantine made it impossible for me to buy them in time. So I had to do with what I had.
History Scope nice
I couldn't dislike because it's so well made and instructive but the video is too bias in my opinion.
The benefits you claim are only for those who can really drink moderately. Overall alcohol kills much more than it saves. It is considered a hard drug because of the strong addictive power and destruction it can have. The same religion who identifies wine as god's blood is also the one who created AA.
I am personally addicted to alcohol like many others and I wish I had never touched it.
@@Platypus_Warrior Hence why I did mention that people who won't suffer from addiction have health benefits.
Alcohol addiction, as far as I know (you probably know better than I) happens very quickly with people just drinking a few drinks per week. I wasn't talking about those people. So I was excluding all the people who suffer from alcohol abuse, from the weekly binge drinker at college parties, to people who drink to forget mental or physical pain.
You are absolutely right that the health benefits are far far far smaller than the drawbacks for a lot of people.
And also an interesting note is that throughout history most alcohol beverages were safer not just because it contained alcohol, but because boiling water was part of producing the drink. And it was the boiling of water that killed off the diseases more than the alcohol did.
You should've added a section about how certain groups are stigmatized as having a reputation for alcoholism (Irish, Native Americans, etc.)
+Jeremy Lopes Alcoholic drinks were considered safer at the time because of the fact that water was boiled in the creation of making it and that alcohol itself is an antiseptic of sorts.
Also I'd add that Catholics believe that wine BECOMES God's blood when communion is given, and it's not until it's blessed by a priest and enters the mouths of those receiving communion that it becomes considered such, otherwise it's just wine. Same thing with communion wafers, after being blessed and being given to a practitioner, it's considered to be the body of Christ. Protestants (and possibly Orthodox, I'm not too sure on the latter) are less literal in their interpretation of communion, and believe that no transubstantiation of the bread and wine takes place, except a metaphorical one.
Scientifically, alcoholic drinks are not
a problem. They are a solution.
steve
Badabumnn tssss
Thank you Steve!
Every solution creates a new problem. A never ending cycle of humanity
Interesting factoid from a former tour guide in Dublin: the word "whiskey" comes from the Irish word for water, "uisce" (ishka). Not only that, but the modern day translation of "whiskey" into Irish (uisce beatha) translates literally to "water of life".
... or Aquavit?
And "vodka" comes from the Russian word "вода" (Voda) meaning water
"I'm not an alcoholic I'm just german". That sounds like something id tell my children
As a First Nations from Canada, Manitoba, I know a lot about the history of the First Nations, mostly the Ojibway's. According to my ancestors, alcohol was seen as an evil spirit (similar to something like possession by demons). If you drank, you weren't welcome to any kind of ceremony as you're seen as corrupt and in need of help. It's still like this with my people. You're not allowed to drink and practice our way of life as you're spirit isn't in your body because of the alcohol.
It sounds harsh but I promise you that it's not near as harsh in person. Also, there's way more to this but it's just a quick blurb because this is a TH-cam comment.
Is that related to the (historically) high rates of alcoholism among indigenous peoples, and the way colonists used alcohol to try and control/weaken them? I know there were some tribes that consumed alcohol in some capacity, but IIRC it wasn't nearly as heavy or widespread as the European culture. Also I believe many native ethnicities have high rates of the same genetic alcohol metabolizing problem that Asian ethnicities do. I wonder if the belief that alcohol was an evil spirit (hehe, spirit) came from that dark history as a way to protect indigenous communities from excessive drinking
Unpleasant but true. I've heard of something in Islamic culture where alcohol is a word derived from "body eats spirit" ruh 'alk aljasad and something about ghouls, al-kuhl. And considering the unimaginable amount of suffering and lives and families ruined by alcoholism, something makes sense.
I wonder if that belief goes back to the mississippians who had trade connections with Mexico so most certainly had corn beer
@@harmreductionman4474no… like they said it’s from their ancestors, long before colonizers. Also they aren’t “historically” alcoholics, it’s just more prevalent here (I’m from Canada) among indigenous peoples due to the poor treatment from white people
Funny cuz every Indian I know is an alcoholic
*history scope starts sober*
*ends the video drunk*
I drink everything he says alcohol
I dink ervr timr he do wirdz
I got halfway thru the video before I realized we weren’t supposed to drink everytime he said alcohol 😂
@@elmikeomysterio5496 wrrdzzz hrrrd
Were you drunk when you spelled that?
@@coilednevada1383 I don't remember watching this video so I think I was
4:51 that reference to the nord mead song came out of nowhere
I've always used the chicken/egg hypothesis. Someone was making bread and screwed it up, a day or two later, it was drinkable.
Or, someone was prepping some grain to brew. It came out dry and could be baked.
All this allowed different people to get together to drink beer and not get into too many fights with strangers.
Which gives Society/Civilization
I'm pretty sure beer actually pushed many people to fight with strangers throughout history tho 😬
I'm proud to say that I never have had one drink in my life which is more than 60 years. I have spent the money on purchasing new motorcycles for my entertainment and fun
Any how is your life, may I ask?
Good for you my man! Alcohol ruins too many lives, avoiding it altogether is by far the best way of not letting it get a grip on you lol
Have fun with your motorcycles!
What a loser!!!
U want a sticker or something?
A genuinely serious question. Why are you proud of that?
At the 0:58 mark: "Certain species of bees do not allow drunk bees to return to the hive."
Drunk Bee: (Slurring) Iss... Isawright my gurls... I'm... uh... I'm doin' juzzzz fine!
Bee's Friend: (Concerned) Seriously right now? Girl you're drunk, don't bother coming to work until you sober up, mmkay?
You ain't bringing that in my hive.
Bee be like im not drunk im just buzzin a little
"no they weren't alcoholics, they are Germans." 😂🤣😂
The way he poured that beer at the beginning made me physically cringe
“Certain species of bees do not allow drunk bees to return to the hive”
Same guy, same
Yeah, but how come friars seemed to almost always be also brewers? I can't take a step in the alcoholic beverages aisle of a supermarket without finding a brand of beer created by friars in the 13th century.
They didnt have wives to tell them not too...
@Aleksa Petrovic Friars are a species of monk or professed religious...celibate in Orthodoxy as well
Monasteries were often akin to communes or towns and tried to be self sufficient
Your videos are really great. Definitely love going back and watching the older ones occasionally too.
I'm glad to have willpower. I can't deny that alcohol relieves my anxiety and I am a very anxious person. All the same, I keep my alcohol consumption limited.
Alcohol and mental health do not mix. Please be safe.
In Ancient Greece people used to drink except the normal wine(mixed with water to avoid getting drunk easily) a type of wine that they used to mix with sea water, it was called tethalassomenos oinos
My theory is that some neolithic bread baker left her breadmaking vessels to soak. After getting back to her pots she discovered it was fizzy and made you feel weird.
Such pretty hands at 0:31🥵😍 edit: also this was made at around 3 :00 am so I don’t what’s going through my mode right now
Lol wtf?
Started the video sober, ended in a dumpster. Long live ethanol.
I didnt need subtitles for this, that probably says something about me
You need to improve at pouring beer. I mean, yes it's a can, but you can always improve.
NatWon actually you have to pour it like that from a can because a can has higher CO2 than glass bottles
Great video, as always. Small thing about the Pirates i'd like to add/ ask about: I always thought pirates were associated with rum because alcoholic beverages were the only ones that didnt rot away after months on sea, -stored in wooden barrels. Water turns bad pretty quick in those barrels, so it was no option. Its the same thing with some english universities around that time, students were given Wine instead of water when there was no/not enough ground water for a well. The water just rots way to quickly when its stored in wooden barrels, Rum/Wine/Beer doesent.
Yes and no, casks would rot often but they just accepted that they would lose a few, they would carry brandy or rum but would usually water it down.
Im surprised by how few subscribers you have, the content you put out is way to good. You should have at least a million
Not quite there, but give him a few years
watching this video at 7 AM.. time to crack one open boiiz
Absolutely SUPERLATIVE video bro!!! LOVED the depth of your historic insights : ) Cheers!
Im still too young to drink but alcohol has always been an interesting topic for me.
Hell i do stories and stuff like that and get my characters drunk all the time in midivel pubs lol
Avoid alcohol, never drink
Amazing videos bro. This is just the start. 1 mil will come soon enough. Much love
Thank for giving complete information and Happy New Year.
The parallels with modern day drug problems is sad yet hilarious
Cigarettes And Achohol Are Drugs, Yet They Aren't Illegal.
the real problem is that ppl always blame alcohol or drugs when they do something shitty to get away from any punishment or backlash of their actions, this actually worked in the past and it still does with ppl who are insecure...
for example a common example lets say that you have a business man (you know the type a complete jerk) who goes to work conference or whatever for a few days then return home to his wife (who has been nothing but loyal to him) next few weeks she notices something is off and goes to see a doctor to only find out she got a few STD/STI so she confronts her husband and he admits to it and blames it on the alcohol (condoms don't stop STDs/STIs) so the wife believes him and tells him to stop drinking and go to AA (after all she is putting in way too much work for him to be unfaithful so it must be the alcohol) and he just got away with being unfaithful..
Good work bro. All your videos are interesting as hell. I love how you break down everything into laymen terms.
Just found your Chanel today and with every video you get more sympathetic
You had my sub at the Nord Mead reference :D
Humans did not "invent" alcohol, we discovered it.
"What does it mean when there's a picture of a skull on the bottle?" "Good Stuff!"
This guy sounds like he's been drinking since he was 3
I am also Dutch and lived in France for 2 years, working in forestry between Dijon and Geneva. And I worked with a guy who was 70, still cutting trees who only drank 2 coffee before work and then 2/3 rose before 12. Then eating 1.5 hours with some red wine, and some more rose in the afternoon, or beer if it was warm. I normally brought 3 litres of water when working in the forest, and was laught at, I tried to "integrate" a few times but wow the French can drink......
It was 5pm when I started watching this video. Perfect time for a glass of wine.
Great video! Also to be mentioned is the distillation of palm wine from the palm tree in sub Saharan Africa esp west Africa. It doesn't seem to have developed in other parts of the world.
Pami
I’m a patriotic American but the Germans absolutely boat race us when it comes to making beer. German beer has a combination of flavor and “cleanliness” (I’m no connoisseur so there may be a better way to say it) that we just can’t match. The downside is now I have to have my local wine shop special order Warsteiner every couple of weeks so it’s a little pricier than domestic but it’s worth it
Alcohol is both beloved and hated, but one thing is for sure no one will ever succeed in getting rid of it completely.
Shocking pour at the start mate, No Chance I'd let you serve me a pint of Carlton Draught
I once tried to make mead: ended up with a gallon of nail polish remover.
And the Irish and Scots Made Whiskeys and scotch whisky and moonshine plus lots of different Beers which they brought to the Americas
The Persian physician, alchemist, polymath and philosopher Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (854 CE - 925 CE) is credited with the discovery of ethanol.[116] The process later spread from the Middle East to Italy.[113][117] Production of alcohol from distilled wine was later recorded by the School of Salerno alchemists in the 12th century.[118] Mention of absolute alcohol, in contrast with alcohol-water mixtures, was later made by Raymond Lull in the 14th century.
Great vid! Nice to see a random channel pop up on my recommendation list and it actually being good
Have a subscription
There are two kinds of people in this world. 1. Worse invention ever 2. Best invention ever :)
Me: *never drinks alcohol*
Also me: *watches this entire video*
same
Never touched a drop.
What kinda life is that
@@hello-friend990 I'll probably try it some day. But I just don't feel like it tbh.
Je bent 1 van de weinige kanalen waar ik er geen problemen mee heb om alle advertenties gewoon te kijken, je verdient die saaf a bradda
Love your videos man, CHEERS!
beautifully written, like most your other stuff, and I am glad there is premium contentout there made by by ESL speakers.
just a suggestion, your voice clips sometimes and there are some nasty low frequency artefacts as well: you can normalise the voice track (a type of compression that takes the track's volume gain and makes it of a similar level all around) plus a low pass equalization filter around 100hz (some plugins even have a 'pop filter' preset).
otherwise, great work, and you have a new subscriber in me
Babe wake up alcohol lore just dropped 🗣
Ok. For had to pause the video when you started talking about "low quality alcohol" in the US causing problems. It wasn't the bootleggers causing people to go blind, it was the government mandating industrial ethanol be laced with certain chemicals and then a tonic company started putting Tricresyl phosphate into their tonic mixture.
I have no idea what happened in the USSR and could not find information about it.
Or it also can be inexperienced still operators not dividing the liquor out to keep out methanol from the ethanol.
USSR was originally prohibitionist until Stalin did Stalinist things.
Search up the Kraut video "How Vodka Ruined Russia"
This video gave me an excuse to drink at 4:30am, _Thank you_
Very nice! I see that this idea had been…brewing in your head for a while!
That joke is terrible... I love it! :D
Get out
Distill your thoughts,
before you speak them!
Dave Williamson, you don't seem to be in very good spirits…
I would argue the same stuff applies to the war on drugs. Does that mean we make every drug legal? I don’t know, maybe, maybe not, but what we do need is a massively different approach that’s more in line with the reality that people will always do drugs.
Thank you for making educational content
Everytime this man proposes a toast I damn near DIE laughing.
6:27 I love the way he says "democratic"
1:48 Wouldn't that be a beer? I know people refer to fermented rice as "wine", but rice is a cereal, not a fruit plus those leaves you mention would be an equivalent to hops.
Rice is considered a grain.
It's usually not fizzy like beer and they aren't made out of malted rice but koji inoculated rice. Koji being a kind of mold that saccharify rice's starch.
This is correct. There is no such thing as rice wine.
@@charlie0008 and beer is made from grain. wine from fruit.
From land regulation for farming barley, to standardized recipes, to self - contained refrigeration, etc. the upward surge of humanity is completely related to beer.
Let an apple rot, its alcohol. It's that easy.
Im 16 and its Legal for me here in Germany 👍🏼😂
I'm 16 in Greece and technically its not legal but really it is I mean every bar will give you
@@billytheta9016 literally every Balkan country
@@redcape2184 true that's what I like about our balkan countries
Literally most of Europe
*meanwhile in America*
My two favorite things history and brewskies.
Some brewskies lmfao
I moved to the czech republic and since being here I view beer in a completely different more positive way
I'm drinking a Green Beacon Windjammer IPA. Awesome beer.
Ps. 11am in lockdown.
Cheers my companions across the whole bloody world!!
Cheers from Sweden!
In my untrained eyes, your video is well researched and well presented. Alcohol, like religion, are not the bad element in our society, we, as an individual and as a group/culture, are those that made alcohol and religion to be bad. If alcohol would to be used in its moderation, we would not have such issue as prohibition here in the US, but, as we say in my heritage language of the Hmoob, our eyes are bigger than our stomach (greed) so we always consumed it more than needed to. Thanks!
Moderation is difficult for people biologically wired to be addicted to it. Moderate use of heroin could be possible, I guess.
Both informative and witty.
Very nice!
Sláinte!
Unfotunately I don't know anything that rhymes with it, or Scotch.
Cool video. It surprised me that you didn't cover the Sumerians, who predated the Egyptians by an estimated millennium, and whose great cities were built around beer. They had the first known beer parlours, worshipped the beer Goddess Ninkasi, and etc.
Also, gin is flavored with juniper and other botanicals, but is a grain alcoho, not distilled juniper wine. Juniper wine is an interesting concept, I don't know how good it'd be.
I'm not an alcoholic! I'm German
I have been appeased with the Batman reference and as such your heart will not be fermented in the special barrel.
I tried finding any evidence of blood wine, but I couldn't find any :(
So if you can ferment blood you will get an honourable mention
In a rocks glass
1 oz of whisky
1 oz of vodka
2 oz Coca-Cola
The Russian Cowboy.
what an awesome video. Great job!
Die Nacht ist jung und der Teufel lacht, komm, wir schenken uns jetzt ein!
I really appreciate your german, PROST!
Great video! However, I have to correct you on the statement that alcohol is an ingredient. It is NOT an ingredient, that means that it is added. Alcohol is a result of the fermentation.
Correct. It is a byproduct of yeast consuming sugar.
Gin and Genever are 2 different categories and have a very different taste. Genever taste malty with hints of juniper (from the malted grains used to make it, then it's infused with Juniper and other botanicals, and sometimes distilled another time), Gin (depending on the type) taste sweet, piney, citrus, has a great aroma, and is super refreshing.
If I'm not mistaken they were originally the same things but being primarily produced in two separate countries they evolved into different drinks over time.
Brand..... heeel herkenbaar meneer
No talk on sub-saharan African palm wine and locally distilled alcohol known as ogogoro or kiankian in Nigeria.
Good point. Africa deserved to be mentioned more in this video
Palm wine is the best.
I think this may be the longest way I’ve ever seen someone unconvincingly say “I don’t have a drinking problem”
I don't drink a lot. I usually go months between drinks. I prefer weed over alcohol and the two go very poorly together, so i don't partake very often.
Nice presentation
excellent! hilarious. thx for creating
You get a like for mentioning pulque.
Agave?
I’m trying to go sober for 2 weeks straight, this video shot my cravings up
Been sober for 19 years cause I hate the taste. My parents try to make me drink lol
This got recommended to me whilst i was hungover. Nice
This channel is sooo good
Does anyone see the parallels to weed when he was talking about how prohibition does not work?
I did.
Well... Hop and Hemp are closely related plants. They even kind of smell the same.
and likewise arms
If only it was psychedelic mushrooms that had such a big impact on cultures worldwide, our society would be very different and more compassionate
i think psychedlic mushroms are the reason or society is so divorced from reality
@@leeroberts4850 The fact that their use isnt more mainstream?
It would be nice, but most people never partake is mushrooms. And even if most people have used it, the effect doesn't last long enough.
If you want world peace, get everyone on weed. Unlike mushrooms, you can still safely function on weed, meaning you could keep people dosed longer, it grows naturally as a hearty plant meaning you don’t have a restricted supply, it naturally lessens anxiety, depression, and aggression. (Though it can also heighten anxiety, depending on the person) while still boosting your compassion.
If we’d discovered weed at the same time as alcohol, we’d have much fewer wars, but our supply of junk food would be critically low. So I don’t know if it’s worth the trade off.
@@HistoryScope The trip itself is from 8 to 10 hours but the effects it has on the mindset and way of life is much more long-term. Psylocibin mushrooms are teachers and a wonderful medicine, not to be abused
7000 BC people were drinking alcohol and coming up with recipes, 5000-3500 BC The first city-states gradually develop in southern Mesopotamia
0:22 Guy doesn't know how to pour a beer