Having spent a fair bit of time in pubs only heated by open fires, in winter, I can assure you that they're actually pretty cosy. :) When they're mostly empty, one can sit near the fire; when they're full, body heat also helps to warm them.

@charliecrome207

9 ай бұрын

There are pubs like that in Britain?

@ben-ow3ow

8 ай бұрын

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

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo

8 ай бұрын

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.

@bradclarke9099

7 ай бұрын

​@@ben-ow3owyeah ❤

@Donathon-qx8kq

6 ай бұрын

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

I prefer drinking in pubs from the 1600’s than I do from the modern day Wetherspoons type places. Last week I was having an ale in a Cornish old pirate pub built in 1312.

ale was often just ''small beer'', very slightly alcoholic but safer than water...in my family memory we were still fetching small beer from the village pub..

@harrynewiss4630

2 ай бұрын

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

I love visiting medieval pubs across England. Such a shame that many are closing down now.

@queeniegreengrass3513

11 ай бұрын

Some being burned too.

@StuartAnderson-xl4bo

10 ай бұрын

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

@cliffordfernandez3524

5 ай бұрын

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

probably not too different from British pubs today lol

@djdeemz7651

Жыл бұрын

Probably more civil than now

@Izumi_Ikebukuro

Жыл бұрын

The one's in Ireland are pretty civil

@user-vg5rv5xf4u

Жыл бұрын

Until you get glassed.

@robertgordon288

Жыл бұрын

link l000000ł

@Gnarnia.

11 ай бұрын

No electronics or TVs so it probably got crazy

Interestingly, there were different words for female brewers and bakers - brewster and baxter respectively - and both, like the male versions, now fairly common surnames in the UK.

Nice to see Adraien Brouwer getting some love, a forgotten painter of the early 1600’s, he worked primarily IN taverns, from life, on small boards (a lot of jostling and rumpus in those smoky, beer laden dens) - I don’t think he lives much past 35, although the manner of his death is unknown to me. Just when I thought I knew alot about this era I come across one of your podcasts, so merci! And cheers!

I love your intro. The sounds of wind and flag flapping, the look of it... Please don't change it! It's oddly comforting haha

@Mimi-jl5ci

Жыл бұрын

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

@tinygrim

Жыл бұрын

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

@esomethingoranother3718

Жыл бұрын

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

@shellyraymond4337

10 ай бұрын

I love it too!

@Shineon83

9 ай бұрын

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….

Thank you for all the absolutely fabulous Art you show. All of it so far is new to me and it’s one of the Huge pluses of Medieval Madness.

Eight to 16 pints a day.. Quite an incentive to take monastic orders

@Zeuskazoo

Жыл бұрын

Must have been small beer

@insertwittynamehere8947

11 ай бұрын

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

@b8nnytez

8 ай бұрын

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

Right on time! I was at the pub getting tipsy and thought... "Would I have a long island and candied Brussel sprouts in the 13th century?"

@Paulftate

Жыл бұрын

Possibilities unlimited

@fuzzytransmissionman

Жыл бұрын

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

@Paulftate

Жыл бұрын

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

@StrawberrySue777

Жыл бұрын

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

@ronaldmessina4229

Жыл бұрын

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

Loved the artwork you choose. Wonderful visuals.

Others have commented on the low alcohol content or 'small beer'. Remember that in those days the rivers and ponds were little more than open sewers - water wasn't safe to drink. Only when it was brewed into ale was it deemed safe. The process 'sanitised' the water, into what we'd now call 'lite' beer in N America, about 0.5% proof or less (and equally tasteless) Thanks, pal, for some fascinating videos!! Can't say I'd want to live anywhere earlier than WWI.

@zerothehero123

8 ай бұрын

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

Lords of the Manor would often license a brewer for beer or ale. However, the demand always outstripped the brewer's capacity. Housewives would then start secretly brewing the beer or ale. If and when caught, the Lord of the Manor would fine them one Pence with a wink and a nod, knowing the fine was merely a tax on the illegal beer sales.

@luckybag6814

Жыл бұрын

That would be one penny. Pence is plural.

@zerothehero123

8 ай бұрын

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

this guy keeps on nailing it

Yay!!! New madness ❤

1:38 Authentic medieval traveler (a young woman alone), in period clothing 😆 Great video!

I love all your videos, especially how you always seem to find so much relevant art to each individual topic.

I love this channel 😭 I usually only like to learn about Ancient Rome but you got me interested in medieval history now too!

Dont know man, when i hear medieval tavern i actually think about a safe stone building with swords and shelds on the walls, pelts everywhere, lit with candles and a fire! filled with people, food and drink in a world where there is nothing but wilderness! but yeah i guess it also might stink pretty bad in there! xD

@insertwittynamehere8947

11 ай бұрын

That's Skyrim 🙂

@Spingerex

8 ай бұрын

That sounds cozy asf

@dbz9393

5 ай бұрын

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?

@Rosahonung

5 ай бұрын

@@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".

I think most pubs in my town are the exact same pubs from back then 😂

I always look forward for when you post!

Thank you for including the contributions of women in this trade. Interesting how at the beginning, the production of ale was largely a domestic chore deligated to women.

Mate your channel is awesome keep up the good work

Life in England in those days was short, brutal and smelly, and so were the people❤

@shaunsteele6926

Жыл бұрын

so not much has changed

@NV..V

Жыл бұрын

So.....they were Italians?

@luckybag6814

Жыл бұрын

@shaunsteele6926 We’re not all short.

@shaunsteele6926

Жыл бұрын

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

@thepotatoincident3593

Жыл бұрын

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

These videos are oddly comforting lol! 😅

Another good video 👍

I love the kitty cats shown in many surviving drawings of medieval monasteries & Abbeys….

Amazing paintings there, some things don't change!

Feel better! Honestly didn’t notice a difference but like the personal info dump 😊

Very informative video. Now I need a pint!

I always wanted to open a medieval-style pub, but I’m sure the health codes and building laws would prevent such an endeavor.

Thank you.

They looked just like Kensington Ave. in Philly

Excellent

Very cool :)

It's been reflected on during the Black plague, taverns got pretty insane. Everyone thinking he's going to die, or they've lost most of their family! Drink 🍷🍻 on up!

Must've been a bloody good time!

I'm sixty. I have learned more from your channel than I would have learned back in grade school in five year's including the library. Which over the year's books were as much as forty percent wrong in the first place. Gee... I wonder why that would be??? Example: Back in sixth and/or seventh grade Tyrannosaurus Rex stood up like Godzilla. We of course know that they would literally break their back if they tried. And that is just one in well over at least a million facts in over thousands of subjects that were Completely Wrong. Thank you for setting this area of history correct. Keep up the wonderful work.

first? love this channel btw

You forgot to mention all those people meeting up to go to the dungeon!

Great selection of artwork. The faces look so bizarre. All swollen and drunk. Even a baby in one painting.

I was hoping for a later period...the late 1800's but I get what I can get

Basically an Essex flat top pub without the Satellite dish or burnout Cars

@andrewdaley5480

3 ай бұрын

And the large barking dog on the roof. 🇬🇧

There once was a barmaid from Sale On whose chest tattooed the price of ale And on her behind For the sake of the blind Was the same information in Braille

Glastonbury was absolutely ass this year Your vids are ace though at least 😅

I LOVE this channel!

My ancestor was Geoffrey Chaucer - great grandfather of my 1st cousin 13 x removed, phew. His father John was an acclaimed wine supplier to Royalty. So Geoff would have known his drink. My family lived in Lambeth and Southwark from 1800s until we all moved away in the 2000s.

Fun video as always and YOU GOT TO GO TO GLASTONBURY FEST??! So jealous. Sleep (and drink water) off that headache.

The conical brass item is a cider or beer barrel tap from the late colonial period. The wooden on/off spicket has rotted away.

@reedr7142

11 ай бұрын

Spigot

I wish we could all go to the Medieval Tavern and we can drink ourselves.

@luckybag6814

Жыл бұрын

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

@anenglishmanplusamerican7107

Жыл бұрын

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

@pwblackmore

9 ай бұрын

@@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!!

@anenglishmanplusamerican7107

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

Holborn is pronounced like hobern.

Think about how much body heat warms up a room when it's full of people. Each person is basically a 180 pound rock emanating 100 degree heat, sometimes expelling it from the anus.

Please pull back on audio input. We love you n wanna hear you fully :)

I've noticed a lot of smoking pipes in these images. I know tobacco was not around during those times in that part of the world, so is it an inaccuracy? Or do you suppose they are smoking opium or cannabis or something? I'm quite curious.

@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115

Жыл бұрын

There are depictions of pineapples as well.

@fuzzytransmissionman

Жыл бұрын

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

@fuzzytransmissionman

Жыл бұрын

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.

@movietimeateds69

Жыл бұрын

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

4 bar loop music name? In ins to tavern

10:00 Is that a sort of nunchuk?

Was that edgewall innkeeper???

The background music is loud af, but great video otherwise!

@lukecoulson7470

Жыл бұрын

Definitely too loud.

8 to 16 pints a day? Where do I sign up?

I really really love these lil documentaries about life in these times!!! So I have started to slowly buy n collect gold. I started at 1 gram about 3 months ago. Now have 8 grams gold and 1 ounce silver with two lil extra bars one 5gram one 10gram. So one and a half ounces of silver and only 8 grams gold. What would this be worth in these times please? Can I buy a loaf of bread or a house? Maybe a horse? It would be super cool to know please mate

@pwblackmore

9 ай бұрын

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!

@NPC-0013

9 ай бұрын

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

@PSDuck216

Ай бұрын

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!

looks like santi stance from xingyi!

I note that lots of people were smoking in medieval times according to the pictures! Sir Walter Raleigh was a bit slow

16 pints is TWO GALLONS!

"And yet you lie with women! Black Sue ... Fat Phoebe ... Rosaline, Burbage's seamstress ... Aphrodite Baggott who does it behind the Dog & Trumpet ..." (The special today is a pig's foot marinated in juniper-berry vinegar and served on a buckwheat pancake ...)

good to see my behaviour has survived relentlessly through the ages,,,

So no quest board in medieval tavern !?

i've often heard that wine and beer was nowhere near as strong in alcohol content as today? If so it was perhaps because it was rushed in production as compared to today? What I know about brewing,wine making and stills today,it's not done till it's done . comment?

@bigcheese2128

Жыл бұрын

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

@netto6681

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Alex-zs7gw

Жыл бұрын

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.

@feldgeist2637

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

Thank you for doing this video. Please take care of yourself. You are more important than your videos. You are more important than your career.

Imagine the smells😂

0:55 - what's that picture depicting? All the adults in the room eyeing up the child?

No pool tables & pinball machines

"Harboring persons for whom they can not answer.".

Without refrigeration I assume all ale was consumed at room temperature, yes?

@nozoto

11 ай бұрын

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.

@user-ug2hk3go6i

11 ай бұрын

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

@zerothehero123

8 ай бұрын

Ice and souterrain helped keep beer longer.

Around the 6+ minute mark, you mention lighting to be a central fire and candles. I suspect that rush lights, rather than candles would have been much more in popular use. Candles, I understand, were relatively out of the means of the average Ale House. At least for regular use. They had rushes on the floor, as you said. So, they were readily available. I also take small issue with some of the images used in the video meant to go with the narrative. All of these men smoking pipes. I was of the understanding that tobacco was introduced to Europe via North America which didn't get colonized until well after the Middle Ages. So, while entertaining, these images don't appear to be historically accurate. I only bring it up because the subject purports to report an accurate, if entertaining, image of the subject matter.

@PSDuck216

Ай бұрын

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!

Since they are smoking in some paintings, wouldn't that mean they are from the renaissance?

Oh how lovely.. once again the Church is involved. So nice to allow the rich to come in but turn away the poor.

🙂👍

🤗💚💚💚🍀🍀🍀

Eight and sixteen pints of ale per day!

I didn't know only women were brewing. 8-16 pints EVERY DAY :D?! No wonder monks had big beer...eh...ale bellies!

Honestly I’d take that world over this one. Being descended from British people I’m sure my ancestors experienced all of this

As a publican I can’t help coming away from this with the impression you don’t like pubs very much. Forgive me if I’m mistaken but given recent events pub lovers are somewhat on the defensive. All good pubs are community hubs regardless of your apparent disdain. Respect, and I hope nobody nasty managed to get into Glastonbury to interfere with your expensive exclusivity.

@thomp5347

Жыл бұрын

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

@jontwatson7001

Жыл бұрын

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

No different from modern pubs then except you can get some pink gin and a basket of loaded fries.

This video it reminds me of the Lord of the rings

Nothing's changed then.

1:14 - God is testing me

Would a fire in the middle of a medieval inn be the forerunner to central heating!

@silver47official

7 ай бұрын

Was that a question?

@Simon-1965

7 ай бұрын

@@silver47official no it was a play on words.

@silver47official

7 ай бұрын

@@Simon-1965 Oh…

@silver47official

7 ай бұрын

@@Simon-1965 Tumbleweed…

What happened to Roger?😐

In fairness, the ale was very weak and a whole lot safer than the water in places!

Us Yanks like a good British pub.

Wait, the royals didn't live in London? Where did they live in the Middle ages?

@spontaneousbootay

Жыл бұрын

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

MM = 33. Proof of all CLAIMS are Required.

8 to 16 pints a day !?.... How much alcohol was in this ale ?...😊

@nikolai6489

5 ай бұрын

2-4%

And what of it.❤

I hope Roger got rogered.

@silver47official

7 ай бұрын

Tumbleweed…

Stay drunk at the pubs 6 days a week, go to church on Sunday, and you would stay out of the dungeons.

The background music is excruciating

I need to find an ale wife

Weird you claim the origins of the word pub comes from the monestarys only to carry over and describe how ale-wifes often opend their house to sell of excess ale.