I Time-Traveled to London's Great Beer Flood 🍺 #history

Added: 2026-06-08

[00:00:00]Okay, so I'm in London 1814 and the entire street is flooding with beer, like an actual river. This is hot porter ale and it's rising. A brewery vat just floated two streets over. 15 ft of beer.

[00:00:14]I am not okay. Wait, are you actually scooping that up to drink?

[00:00:18]>> Plenty beer in it, lover. Won't last long.

[00:00:21]>> That is full-on street water, though.

[00:00:23]>> Best night St. Giles ever had.

[00:00:27]>> They're using hats, actual hats. So, this whole area, one of London's poorest slums, families packed into the basements, which means when the wave hit, the beer poured straight into their homes. The whole street still reeks of it, soaked into the walls, way darker than I expected. Wait, did people actually die in this?

[00:00:47]>> Eight.

[00:00:48]Mostly women and children.

[00:00:51]>> Children?

[00:00:52]>> A wake for a dead boy. The cellar flooded with them in it.

[00:00:57]>> No.