There are pubs like that in Britain?

@@charliecrome207 yeh. In Ireland too. Typically in the countryside.

Many old inns have open fires, there's nothing better than sitting by the fire midweek when few people venture out with snow on the ground, sipping a hot toddy as your last drink before you stagger home.

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You know what Jennie that sounds like a great way to kill a winter's evening.... Carpe Viva

Probably more civil than now

The one's in Ireland are pretty civil

Until you get glassed.

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No electronics or TVs so it probably got crazy

My grandfather was selling beer in jugs to take away in the 1960s

Some being burned too.

In actual fact there are no medieval pubs still existing several claim to be but the oldest recognised Inn BTW an Inn is not a pub is George Inn in Norton dated to 1345

Yeah I wonder who’s burning them elem Those 🫎 limbs u allowed ur country to be infested with

I love it too! I’ve been wanting to say this. The artwork, that weird looking creature with an animal in its mouth (?) the drums and the whooshing sound, idk it’s great

It is ❤ he already changed once. 😢 Once was enough.... 😊 Still good. But i still love original look.

4real I love that and how he has all the medical art throughout the video to help you visualize everything.

I love it too!

I’ve said the EXACT, same thing since this channel started….It somehow conveys the passage of great time-with medieval imagery (and sounds) fading through the mists of time….

Possibilities unlimited

I belive Long Islands are what they call a "New-World crop" XD

@@fuzzytransmissionman just another high--.ball... gave up alcohol.. lost the taste for it

Mmmm......love a crispy brussel sprout. Cheers!

I most certainly wish that I could have lived during the Middle Ages, I do not believe that i could have asked for more 😮

Must have been small beer

It was even included as part of their pensions, believe it or not.

added benefit being that after that much drink, you couldn't perform with a woman anyway, so win win

That would be one penny. Pence is plural.

Beer and ale are the same thing. Ale and lager are terms for a difference in fermentation process.

That's Skyrim 🙂

That sounds cozy asf

this is the winking skeever in skyrim. Many pubs were not actually made of stone, hence the great fire of london. I feel like hanging swords on the wall around drunk degenerates is a bad idea?

@@dbz9393, @insertwittynamehere8947 I dident say it was historically accurate, i said "When i hear medieval tavern i actually think about" as a reply to "When most people hear tavern they think about x".

This is myth. Beer was the only tasty drink around and they could get water just fine. Tea, coffee, sodas etc weren't around.

so not much has changed

So.....they were Italians?

@shaunsteele6926 We’re not all short.

@@luckybag6814 technically they weren't either, they were just malnourished

average life span was in the 60's i believe. not that short.

And the large barking dog on the roof. 🇬🇧

There are depictions of pineapples as well.

I think those paintings are more recent depictions; mostly thrown in for flavor.

Cannabis could very well have been smoked because hemp was EVERYWHERE, but because it was grown for its fibers I dont think many people really bothered using it recreationally. As for opium, that was probably REALLY expensive because only merchants who dealt with Eastern imports had ready access to it.

Slightly related note: a friend of mine smoked something, but didn't know what it was. It was opium.

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Drink ourselves? I’d prefer to drink the ale, but whatever turns you on.

@@luckybag6814 same, I like ail to. at least what they are considering it in America LOL

@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 Ale is 'warm fermentation' brewed, without hops, and top-fermented with yeast. Industrialised North American beers are actually lagers - cold brewed and stored, with bottom-fermented yeast. Fortunately, the UK has CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale), while in NA we have a tremendous surge in small breweries making more traditional beers brewed with hops. Great!!

@@pwblackmore I appreciate your enlightening comment about producing lagers and ails in modern times. It’s great to learn new things, even if I can’t see the light you’re shedding on the topic! Cheers to knowledge! Love from the visual impaired community.

I'm not sure about your relevance here - but, something to bear in mind: In Roman times an ounce of gold would buy you a nice toga, and some decent sandals - whereas nowadays an ounce of gold would buy you a nice suit and a pair of good shoes. The purchasing value is equivalent... so hang on to that gold!

@@pwblackmore thank you that’s really cool info. Oh I can promise you I’ll be holding on to it

Never discuss your valuables on the net, even in comments. There are unscrupulous individuals who’d find your info and … (Ex law enforcement, here. Now a medieval historian.) Your question should have been: what could I buy with an ounce of silver? Well, lad, glad you asked. An ounce of silver was worth 20 pence in the LSD scheme of things. Were you a farmer (aka peasant until the rotten Victorians turned the description into a bad word), you’d make a penny a day. Also as a casual laborer. Note we are talking the low end of wages here. With your penny, you could buy a four pound loaf of bread. Four pounds of very little gluten and no GMO and chemical additives bread. Unless it was adulterated with chalk, or you got Millstone dust in it, the bread was far healthier than today. Bread was your staple food. You’d add what green and leafies you could, plus fruit, in season. By the way, our bread today has 19 (!) times the gluten of bread in the 1950s, let alone medieval bread. Beer or ale would set you back 1d a gallon, table ale (aka small ale or beer) a farthing a gallon. Think about that: depending on your wage level, a gallon of beer/ale costs a quarter to a full day’s wages. Wine, from a half penny to 2d per pint. Wastel, second best bread, would cost 1.25d. It was brown and a bit coarse. Today, it’d be marketed as artisanal bread. Chicken or duck eggs might cost you 1d per dozen. Clothing was expensive. That’s why you’d hopefully have a wife who could cook and spin (and sew). I hope that helps. Cheers!

Definitely too loud.

Could’ve also been intentional in some cases as in many villages and towns the water wasn’t safe to drink so people would make a low alcohol ale or beer to drink instead of water

Too much is made of the beer being weak. It was generally around 3-4% which whilst not super strong, it’ll still have an effect if you’re drinking gallons of it. Also, stronger beers were sometimes made for festivals and Christmas. I like to think that when you hear about an event that can be described as “medieval madness”, the root cause was always an unusually strong brew in the village.

You're kinda right, and also I guess we can't genuinely be certain ...but the contrasts boil down to more of a distinction between classification: Pottage for instance was an important staple... Which shares ingredients with ale but shares more similarity with food whilst still having an alcoholic content. (Like in Ancient Egypt) Also hops weren't really a thing until the end of the middle ages and so I would imagine without their antibacterial effect, the yeasts wouldn't have been as potent at raising the alcohol content. Wine was infrequent in Britain and expensive... But I know the Romans famously watered their wine down...so would imagine the same legacy would have lingered until the Renaissance when distillation methods etc were discovered.

​@@bigcheese2128 you won't be able to brew beer without really good water and what you got from wells or the local creek would've been perfectly fine to drink (most likely better than most modern tab water) storing water for a longer period in wooden barrels will ofc creating issues - either with micro-organisms or at least giving it a funky taste

And it was freshly brewed to be consumed the same day, before the 15th century and the growing use of hops in beer. Indeed, the acid of hops acted as a preservative way before the wide use of refrigeration.

@@nozoto The just brewed ale would be interesting to try.

Ice and souterrain helped keep beer longer.

Candles: the tavern would use tallow candles. Basically animal fat. Smokey and stinky, and not as bright as wax candles. But far cheaper. Why waste the best on punters, unless they’d pay for it? Cheers!

What are you on about!? What recent events? And how is this in anyway negative toward pubs?? Try being less vague in future.

@@thomp5347 Apologies, I may have been responding to a different post.

Was that a question?

@@silver47official no it was a play on words.

@@Simon-1965 Oh…

@@Simon-1965 Tumbleweed…

At their estate. They have their own land to manage.

Beer was not as strong also you drank different beer depending on the time of day. Small beer for example low in alcohol. Also beer was high in calories and used as a nutritional filler as well

They did. Infant and mother mortality were way higher than today.

⁠@@spontaneousbootaybut not because of that. The beer was much weaker. High mortality was due to lack of healthcare and awareness of infection.

@@spontaneousbootay Yeah, I know. But even among the people that survived, I would think a ton of them had at least mild FAS if truly everyone was always drinking noting but ale all the time. I wonder if a lot of people had very mild cases of it, where it only affected their intelligence a little bit, but no one noticed because most people didn't know how to read or have to do anything that mentally complicated, anyway. If the majority of the people had mild FAS for such a long time, it's a wonder European society actually progressed as much and as fast as it did.

@@Melissa0774 People weren't marrying their cousins so often by that point, with the influence of the catholics iirc, so they were already slightly healthier. This of course came hand in hand with increased travel.

2-4%

The beer was pretty low alcohol and not carbonated like today

Tumbleweed…