The Gin Craze

Haha, I like the guidelines of this channel. So British indeed 😊

Gin lane, the ruin of all.

YOU ALL ARE SERIOUS ALCOHOLICS

For those curious about the print: Beer Street and Gin Lane by William Hogarth, pretty famous for his sociocritical works (Marriage á la Mode, The Four Stages of Cruelty, etc.)

Yet whisky was taxed from 1644.

why do you sound so angry about it?

Good, bring more gin to London please.

Wow! I knew that there was general outrage over blue ruin, but I had no idea how much was being consumed. I'd sort of lumped it in with the general Puritanical teetotalling you see in the States.

Up to a hundred years ago people were drinking alcohol as water was often dirty and made them sick.

Brilliant!

Gin is the only alcoholic drink that doesn’t make you hungry. It; was cheaper than food and cleaner than water

Unfortunately the amount of spirits mentioned doesn't seem excessive

Life was so miserable, being drunk was the only way to tolerate it....we have no idea.

"In the 18th century they drank pints of gin" haven't you ever been to Weatherspoons?

As someone who doesn't drink this is both horrifying and hilarious in a dark way.

I wonder how many families are still being affected by this to this day, because of genetic alcoholism and generational trauma?

Hmmm. Distilleries were not banned because of excessive drinking but because of tax evasion. It's much easier to tax licensed distilleries ...

Another tax on the poor.

Everyone loves a Gimlet!

Thank the Dutch for that 😂

I`ll drink to that.

"Half the British wheat harvest is going to make gin" - meanwhile in the 1840s - a million Irish men women and children died as a result of starvation whilst millions of tons of foodstuffs incliudung wheatvl were exported from Ireland often under armed guard to Britain

Best Argument against Democracy, like ever.

Gonna vom

Wow, they had their version of prohibition by roughly 200 years before America has

So this is when the G&T culture began. 😊🍸

There’s a reason its called mothers ruin, as at the time, there was a report printed of how a mother had smothered her own child, so she could sell its clothes for gin money.

That's nuts!

THE CURSE OF ALCOHOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gin comes from the Dutch genever!

I get them, gin tastes great and the London of that time was even more hellish than today

Drinking gin is a basic human right. hic

And the rising population of gin today means that there are now more spirit distilleries in England than Scotland, because whisky has to be aged in casks for several years and so starting a new whisky distillery would be an incredibly long term investment that no one wants to risk, whereas gin doesn’t take nearly as long to produce!

This explains a lot. If you know a thing or two about gin.

😂😂😂😂😂 Oh my! Dang!

I knew there was a reason I hate gin. Other than the taste, I mean

Gin is decidedly depressing. Not like Russian novelist depressing. But ready to die in a trench depressing.

I’M COMIN’!!!!!!

Am I too late?

Can we bring back these gin prices please?

I actually remember this from gcse history, pretty sure it also lead to public drinking being banned.

"Gin terrorists" is not a term I would have imagined existing.

The BLUE RUIN!

I guess they’ve stopped drinking for good then.

And they say we have a drinking problem today nothing compared to that

They called it Mother’s Ruin.

Neutral Moresnet would like to meet this place

Always knew gin was popular over there, but I had no idea!

2008, is that why there was a crash?

They used to say of gin 'Drunk for a penny [a pint]. Dead drunk for a two pennies' [a quart]

Damn. I knew it was bad; I didn't know it was THAT bad.

Also: such beautiful eyes.