liquor made from potatoes is usually vodka, but anything high in starch will make vodka. Potatoes are just well known for it. I also think of potatoes when I think of moonshine because I use to think moonshine was vodka usually since movies show the moonshine as clear. lol
I don't drink myself personally, but you both getting a beer to have while watching this is pretty hilarious. Even today though, there are many dry counties.
Yeah totally. And the laws here in Tennessee vary by county. Like here in my county you can only buy alcohol between 6am and 3am. For some reason I guess those 3 hours in between are really important or something. My neighboring county is much more strict. There its only available between 8am and midnight. And on Sunday between noon and midnight. Its so weird.
Hoover Dam: Yes, named after President Hoover. President Roosevelt did all he could to name it after anyone EXCEPT Hoover, but he was overruled by Congress.
You can thank Prohibition for the birth of NASCAR. Bootleggers would go to mechanics looking to upgrade their cars so that they could outrun the police during their runs.
They souped up the engine of those cars and jacked up the rear suspension because they were carrying a lot of hooch in the trunk and drove through back roads at night with their headlights off to evade the police it was crazy.
Prohibition is the origin of tipping in the U.S. It came about because customers would bribe their servers to bring them alcohol during their meal. Owners knew about this and allowed it because they were still making money. When the Great Depression came about and owners couldn’t pay their staff they said to provide better service so they would get better “tips” and then it just stuck.
Tipping in American goes back to the 19th century. It actually has rather a racist origin. Freed slaves generally either went to work as sharecroppers or in menial service positions, and employers would encourage customers to give them small tips so the employer didn't have to pay them.
My great grandfather, an immigrant from Ireland, was a cop in Chicago during the time of al Capone. He even reported to the scene of the valentines massacre. I never met the man, but I understand he never liked talking about those days. One thing about the George Remus trial that didn’t get brought up is that his wife may or may not have been plotting to hire a hit man to kill her ex husband, though I don’t know if this was ever confirmed. At any rate, Remus won because he made it seem like the murder never would’ve happened if not for prohibition, and since the jury already hated prohibition, they saw Remus as the victim of an unfair law and found him not guilty. Just another reason why laws ought to be fair, less criminals use them to gain sympathy.
The reason why we had so many alcoholics in this time of America was because drink options were basically limited to alcohol, water and milk. Soda and fruit juices would be coming in a little later but not before prohibition took effect.
Yeah because the pasteurization process which not only helps to preserve milk but also prevents grape juice from fermenting into wine wasn’t invented until after the ratification of the 18th amendment.
Great reaction video. FYI vodka is made from potatoes. Moonshine is specific to liquor and is usually made from "mash," frequently a mix of corn, barley, yeast and maybe sugar that sits and ferments for a week or so. After it ferments, it contains a mix of water and alcohols: methanol (bad) and ethanol (tasty). Distillation is next where the first to be removed is methanol which has the lowest boiling point then ethanol with a higher bp. Excess methanol consumption can cause blindness, where excess ethanol consumption can cause regret and unwanted children.
Moonshine is homemade whiskey, so it's at least 51% corn and then you add barley or rye for flavor. Moonshine is clear because whiskey comes out clear and turns bronze in the aging process. Vodka is what's made with potatoes. A benefit of living in Kentucky is we have Bourbon Whiskey distilleries in almost every county and you can get tours and educated on it and taste test.
American moonshine is usually made from corn, but I'm pretty sure what Becca is thinking of is poitin (sp?), which is Irish moonshine made from potatoes. It's one of those things that foreign tourists get warned about by elderly relatives when going to Ireland, "Oooh, be sure you don't drink any of that pot-cheen, or you'll go blind!" No idea if it's still even a widespread thing over there. I associate it with the sort of outdated travel advice one gets from really old people, you know, like information about where to order your traveler's checks.
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About the women complaining about alcohol -- to be fair, during the height of the women's temperance movement, the laws were pretty harsh from women's POV. Not only could a man drink his whole paycheck and leave his family to starve, or be evicted from their homes, but if his wife got a job (and many of these women were working class, and did have jobs), when *she* came home with *her* pay, it was legal for her husband to take it and go back to the bar. Legally, he owned her pay, because he was her husband. So if a man was an alcoholic, he could do serious damage to his family and his wife had no options at all. (DIvorce was also horribly shameful at this time, mostly for the woman, so leaving him would destroy her reputation and make it harder for her to get a job to support her kids.) The law was completely on the drunk husband's side, whether he was beating up his wife and kids, or just drinking all their income so they went hungry. This wasn't just a bunch of "Karens" with sticks up their arses. These women were fighting for their own welfare, and their children's, in a system where everything was stacked against them. Making alcohol illegal didn't actually solve these problems, but it seemed like a good idea at the time, back when it was assumed that alcohol was why some men abused their families.
Does the video really make them seem like Karens? It seems they make legitimate points for why alcohol was bad. Sure, they don’t go into as much a detail as you, but this is called Oversimplified for a reason
About the George Remus case, it was found out that Remus' wife had actually hired someone to kill him when he got out of prison, but the assassin instead confessed this plot to Remus Remus then decided to kill his wife before she could kill him, and won his case by pleading self-defence and temporary insanity due to the betrayal Bonus fact: the prohibition agent Remus' wife was having an affair with was actually working undercover as an inmate where Remus was jailed. Remus befriended him in jail and confessed that his wife was in control of all his money. When the agent heard this, he immediately resigned from his job and went straight to Remus' wife and began their affair
Idk if this comes from prohibition but until recently (like within the last 10 years or so) in my state, Minnesota, it was illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays. You could still buy it at like bars and restaurants, but all liquor stores in the state had to close on Sunday
They still close early on Sunday. I went around 6:30 PM to buy some beer and the store was closed. Thankfully there was a brewery nearby where I could buy some crowlers.
1) Many of those opposed to alcohol were fundamentalist Protestants, about whom I have it heard it said that their mission in life is stop anyone from ever having any fun. 2) Like other "hot button" issues in politics, the divide over Prohibition was socio-economic: rural vs. urban, conservative vs. liberal, native-born vs. immigrant, Protestant vs. Catholic, white vs. black, etc. 3) My paternal grandmother, who was the granddaughter of Irish immigrants, told me that in the 1920s as a teenage girl she helped her father run a grocery store. They had a compartment under the floor from which they sold illegal liquor. 4) The word "scofflaw" was the winning entry in a contest to create a new word to refer to the epidemic of illegal drinking. 5) It's remarkable how quickly Prohibition ended, especially considering how difficult it is to change the U.S. Constitution. 6) Although the violence and corruption are not as widespread, the "War on Drugs" is "Prohibition 2.0," and has also been a colossal failure. It started almost immediately after Prohibition ended, in part so the Federal law enforcement officials wouldn't lose their jobs. It's the reason why the U.S. has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world. It's also to blame for a massive erosion of civil liberties in the criminal justice system, because there are too many drug arrests for the courts to have time for jury trials. Instead those arrested are often indicted on many charges and plead guilty to only some of them, regardless of their guilt, saving the time and expense required for a trial. There are people serving life sentences for non-violent drug offenses. Those who do get out of prison often lose their voting privileges for life, which has not been but should be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The hysteria over the Drug War leads both political parties to appoint or elect prosecutors and judges who simply disregard parts of the Bill of Rights. More than 80 years later some U.S. states have "legalized" marijuana, which is absurd because it's still illegal under federal law. Those states that have legalized marijuana have to just hope that whoever is U.S. President instructs the Department of Justice to simply ignore federal law.
My great-great and great-grandpa had ties to the Italian mafia in Chicago. My grandpa used to tell me stories about “family” he met in Chicago when he was a kid.
In this situation women probably started the movement because they weren't the ones drinking heavily and they experienced more of the negative effects of it
I'm from Tennessee... a state that is notorious for moonshine. My grandfather actually made it and ran it for a living lol. We make our moonshine out of corn here... but you could use potatoes I guess. Anything starchy.
I spent one summer during college working as a field technician for the forestry department at a major university in the South. This required me to wend my way back up into the hills to collect water samples from remote stations that were sited on creeks and streams. And yes, the moonshine stills were still there (of course, not all of them were as old as the 1920s).
If I remember correctly prior to prohibition there was no federal income tax and alcohol was a major tax revenue for the federal government. To replace the tax revenue the income tax was instituted. After prohibition ended it never went away, even though alcohol is still taxed.
Actually, the constitutional amendment instituting the federal income tax was put into place in 1913, seven years before Prohibition. Wayne Wheeler worked with advocates of the income tax to get it passed, since he knew that the federal government needed some form of revenue to replace the loss of liquor tax dollars if Prohibition was to be adopted.
Also even before the "income tax" amendment (that's not technically what it's about, but its technical purpose is complicated and boring and the reason it was passed was to create the income tax system we have now, so sure, it's the "income tax" amendment), there had been temporary income taxes like during the American Civil War. But basically Congress got tired of the Supreme Court being like "No, you can't just set taxes based on how much money someone actually has, you have to adjust for their state's population and the percentage of the federal budget and..." (I told you it was complicated and boring.)
Yes, you can make alcohol from potatoes. If it's got carbohydrates, whether simple (sugars) or complex (starches), you can probably do things to it to make it straightforward for yeast to eat the carbs and excrete alcohol.
It should be noted that before the 1900's the primary way of preserving food was to stick it in some form of brine, syrup, or alcohol. Ice Boxes, the predecessor to modern refrigerators, first became commercially available in the 1840's, but were more of a short-term solution as the ice would slowly melt over the course of several days, necessitating regular restocks. So if you were a mid-to-lower-class citizen and wanted a drink, you were usually limited to either water (which was often less than sanitary) or an alcoholic beverage.
You can absolutely make alcohol from potatoes. Potato vodka's a thing, for example. Also, the Irish have definitely made potato liquor. I think the legal poitín is grain these days, but it can be made with potatoes as well (and also, y'know, illegally).
🙏🏻 Yes ! Please do 3 Kingdoms. That Era inspired a game I use to play called Dynasty Warriors. & It's Similar to how Game of Thrones. Was Partially inspired by the War of the Roses.
She DID steal from him, but as a rule you don't really want to just murder people. Also Pizza is Italian-American not Italian. That had not much to do with the video I just want to make that clear.
Actually pizza is Italian but like all foods that came to America it became Americanized. Would you say tacos aren’t Mexican because Taco Bell’s tacos aren’t Mexican.
@@MrSophire first off, after researching more turns out that yes, pizza was from Italy but it became huge when it came to america. Second, who in the actual hell would say that Tacos aren't Mexican?
moonshine was typically made from corn and/or barley. Corn mash to distilled product and then sometimes distilled a second time yielded clear alcohol. This type alcohol aged in casks became whiskey and/or bourbon.
"Moon Shine", the term, came about because many of the back country stills were operated at night, to keep from being caught. In the mountains of Eastern USA, they used grain mash (not potatoes). But I would guess, in the North, at least some people used potatoes....to make Vodka.
It’s called Moonshine because they needed moonshine to make it. It’s made out of apple peels and honey. It Is a separate drink mainly from the Appalachia. Vodka is made of potatos
6:15, I know its a joke but it is a factor. The average workday for a man in the late 19th century in the us was 12 hours often 7 days a week with only 1 day a month fully off, for female workers the average work week was a "light" 10 hour day 6 days a week. Its not that women were "trying to keep busy" its that when you look at anything but the absolutely wealthiest in society most men were to busy to even consider social activism unless an issue was so destructive it 100% forced it. In pre revolution Paris you have a similar situation except the average male working hours was 13 with most men working 14 hour days.
Moonshine is basically corn whiskey that has *not* been aged but simply bottled/jugged straight from the still for sell or consumption -- though some also use the world moonshine for (any) illegal hard grain liquor.
You know its a good sign your girl said that womans death was acceptable before even acknowledging the part where she robbed the guy. That girl LOYAL lmao
I live in the American deep South and my American ancestry goes back at least three generations. I am also Irish Catholic so let me educate you. Moonshine is actually corn whiskey that has not been aged in oak barrel so does not turn brown and is clear. It’s also sometimes called white lightning or hooch. Vodka is made from potatoes, rum is made from molasses which is what you get when you processed sugar cane along with sugar, tequila is made from a plant that only grows in the in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico. American whiskey is usually made from rye and corn.
My grandparents used to go to "SpeakEasys" and drink during prohibition and drank "Bathtub Gin" at parties. They were pretty hip and my grandma was a "Flapper".
@@JamesCornwall95 it is indeed and I know it’s been said before but I love both your reactions to videos you both seem like your enjoying it rather than just watching it 👍
If it can be fermented, then it can make alcohol. Potato alcohol absolutely exists. Luksusowa is a brand of potato vodka. As for the term "moonshine," that came about because the people making were doing it at night, to avoid getting caught. Ergo, "by the light of the moon."
I love y'all's reactions. So funny sometimes. 🤣 But seriously though, prohibition was awful. Obviously for many reasons like the video stated. I had relatives back in that time who were moonshiners and did bootlegging of booze in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Also, most of the moonshine around my area and northeastern Tennessee, was made out of corn. At least to my knowledge. Btw, if yall ever come to the US, come to Tennessee where you can see all this Prohibition stuff.
@@JamesCornwall95 next time y'all come, if y'all come over together, check out cities and towns around Chattanooga, Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Johnson City, and just a whole lot of places in the Smokies. You'll love it there!
Ohhhh dear sir. Moonshine is NOT just illegal booze. It homemade whiskey and while still illegal in a lot of places, there are many where you can buy it legally. It is still sometimes illegal because home brewers often made batches that Literally made people go blind. (The homemade stuff, not the stuff you can get in stores now) Main thing to know tho is that it is STUPID strong. It was made to get you drunk, period, so it is tasteless and as close to rubbing alcohol as they can get it without being harmful to consume. There are moonshines that are 190 proof… which is 95% alchohol.
I *think* the word you might be thinking of is bootlegged. You can have bootlegged whiskey or bootlegged vodka or beer and that would mean illegal stuff, but you wouldn’t say you had some moonshine and mean you had some illegally gotten beer.
Alcohol. The type of alcohol in the alcoholic drinks we drink is a chemical called ethanol. To make alcohol, you need to put grains, fruits or vegetables through a process called fermentation (when yeast or bacteria react with the sugars in food - the by-products are ethanol and carbon dioxide). It is produced by fermenting carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches. So to answer your question. Yes, you can make alcohol from Potatoes. Or anything that can ferment. Prunes, Bananas, Carrots, Lettuce, Spinach, Broccoli, Raspberries, Corn... anything that decays and produces Carbs.
There's a cave near me here in Alabama that was a speakeasy during Prohibition called Bangor Cave. It has a bar, dance floor for strippers, and even a jail cell carved out of the rocks.
Yeah the Hoover Dam was built by Hoover. That and getting Capone were his 2 accomplishments. But failing to do anything about the Great Depression is his main legacy
So Irish moonshine is made out of potatoes but it’s not called moonshine. It’s called poitin, pronounced pah-cheen. My grandfather brought it back from Ireland one time and an Irish tsa agent pulled it out of his bag (it’s illegal) and the agent asked what it was and my grandpa told him it was Irish spring water from his mothers well and he could have some if he’d like. The agent took a whif and said to him, “it’s a wee bit early in the mornin for me to be drinking your mother’s Irish well water”. The guy put it back in his bag and let him go. God I miss that man
I think a reaction to some big video talking about facts about all the US Presidents would be neat. There are a lot of them, especially in the Victorian Era, that even most Americans don't know much or anything about.
Moonshine is made of corn. A friend’s Great Grandfather had three farms. One for corn, one for stills and one for hogs who ate the evidence (corn husks and stalks.) His name is still well known in Alabama. In my family (California) there’s a story about our Great Grandmother setting the bathtub on fire while making bathtub gin. She had to call the fire dept and explain WHY the bathtub was on fire. I’m sure the firemen got a chuckle out of that. In some versions of the story, the local Bishop was at a lunch party in the backyard. I doubt they were drinking tea. LOL.
When you mention, would they end the income-tax after prohibition ended. I just laughed, who has ever heard of a government, willingly ending a tax. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Women got the vote just after the tap was turned off; the Eighteenth Amendment was followed quickly by the Nineteenth. Prohibition was directly related to the steady rise in female political power and influence throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focused on an issue which had been of paramount importance to women for decades. No one knew better the destructive effects of alcohol on the family.
My moms side of my family immigrated to America from Ireland in 1918 and my dads side immigrated from Germany in 1916. I'm sure they were all confused as shit lol.
Oh YEAH, Potatoes are used to make alcohol. Mostly Vodka today..... But back THEN! You would use potatoes as a substitute for grains, as well as corn, beets, and a variety of other fruits or vegetables. And you would need a lot of sugar as well. And depending on what you used, you would get a different "taste" overall, AND an additional taste based on where/how it was made. So, you would have a "corn based moonshine" in North Carolina that had a more 'sweeter' taste than say "corn based moonshine" made in Texas. It was all based on the TYPE of corn used, the AMOUNT used, how you made it as far as distilling and boiling, what type of sugar used, how consistent your "mash" was (ground corn), the different type of water to boil (stream,city, well ..etc) and temps used to cook. So while "Corn Moonshine" was considered the 'standard' and had a "smooth, strong, but slightly sweet taste, "Potato Moonshine would be more "smooth, but milder and little sweetness overall", and then of course you run the gambit of variations, styles, locations, mixtures, added flavors etc.etc.
back before Prohibition you could walk into any bar buy a 5 cent beer and that entitled you to the beef and potatoes or Turkey at the end of the bar, al supplied by the brewery
Moonshine got its name cause that's when it was made by the light of the moon and its still around today. Fun fact: Moonshiners invented NASCAR You should checkout the untouchables
One of the big reasons women pushed prohibition so hard, which was glossed over, is the high instances of domestic abuse/violence connected to alcohol. A lot of women got into the temperance movement because they felt they had to for their safety and the safety of their children. Plus, the job opportunities for women were extremely limited, and payed little, so women could rarely leave/divorce their husbands (and many courts would only push forward divorce if the husband consented, so...). They felt their only option was to outlaw alcohol, which was undoubtedly contributing to domestic violence. Also, many women couldn't join in and just get drunk. It was not really socially acceptable for women to go to taverns back then. Plus, they ran their house and raised their kids. If they went out and protested, they could come back when they felt like it. If they got drunk or became an alcoholic, they couldn't. Instances of alcoholism were way lower in women than in men, simply because they didn't have the same access that men did, so it helps explain why women had to get the ball rolling
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liquor made from potatoes is usually vodka, but anything high in starch will make vodka. Potatoes are just well known for it. I also think of potatoes when I think of moonshine because I use to think moonshine was vodka usually since movies show the moonshine as clear. lol
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The technique we use is called balloon framing. It makes houses cheaper and faster to construct.
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Potatoes are often used in vodka as a substitute for cereal grains.
I wouldnt say substitute because honestly Potato is def superior and I have never known or heard it to be used as a substitute
Just about any sort of fruit or vegetable matter can be made into alcohol. So can wood, though spirits made from wood are far more poisonous.
@@jean-paulaudette9246 it’s pretty much all
Methanol it’s almost nothing but lethal spirits isn’t it ?
@@benjamindenton9453 Depends on how you mix your cocktails, I suppose.
I don't drink myself personally, but you both getting a beer to have while watching this is pretty hilarious. Even today though, there are many dry counties.
Gotta love the irony 😂😂
Yeah totally. And the laws here in Tennessee vary by county. Like here in my county you can only buy alcohol between 6am and 3am. For some reason I guess those 3 hours in between are really important or something. My neighboring county is much more strict. There its only available between 8am and midnight. And on Sunday between noon and midnight. Its so weird.
during this lockdown I started making my own wine and cider.....A lot easier then I thought it would be🤔.
Personally I just want to know where they got there fridge👀
@@craigory87 I recommend you research the dogshit Pennsylvania liquor laws
Hoover Dam: Yes, named after President Hoover. President Roosevelt did all he could to name it after anyone EXCEPT Hoover, but he was overruled by Congress.
He probably did it because.. he thought Hoover sucked.
(Bad vacuum joke)
You can thank Prohibition for the birth of NASCAR. Bootleggers would go to mechanics looking to upgrade their cars so that they could outrun the police during their runs.
They souped up the engine of those cars and jacked up the rear suspension because they were carrying a lot of hooch in the trunk and drove through back roads at night with their headlights off to evade the police it was crazy.
Oversimplified: Americans were drinking way too much.
The Norseman: We'll drink to that!
The Prince of Wales was photographed leaving a speakeasy in NYC in 1924 which caused his dad King George V to prohibit him from visiting the USA!
Knowing Edward VIII's reputation, why am I not surprised?
“Can I have a red one?”
THE RED COATS ARE COMING THE RED COATS ARE COMING
Hahaha that's hilarious 😂😂😂
Prohibition is the origin of tipping in the U.S. It came about because customers would bribe their servers to bring them alcohol during their meal. Owners knew about this and allowed it because they were still making money. When the Great Depression came about and owners couldn’t pay their staff they said to provide better service so they would get better “tips” and then it just stuck.
That's actually an infesting fact ! I never woulda guessed
Tipping in American goes back to the 19th century. It actually has rather a racist origin. Freed slaves generally either went to work as sharecroppers or in menial service positions, and employers would encourage customers to give them small tips so the employer didn't have to pay them.
Though it may have spread more widely because of Prohibition.
@@lizd2943 I’m sure the concept goes even farther back than that but still interesting thanks !
My great grandfather, an immigrant from Ireland, was a cop in Chicago during the time of al Capone. He even reported to the scene of the valentines massacre. I never met the man, but I understand he never liked talking about those days.
One thing about the George Remus trial that didn’t get brought up is that his wife may or may not have been plotting to hire a hit man to kill her ex husband, though I don’t know if this was ever confirmed. At any rate, Remus won because he made it seem like the murder never would’ve happened if not for prohibition, and since the jury already hated prohibition, they saw Remus as the victim of an unfair law and found him not guilty. Just another reason why laws ought to be fair, less criminals use them to gain sympathy.
Fun fact: The county where the Jack Daniels Distillery is, is a dry county. While it is legal to distill it there, it is illegal to sell it there.
They’re actually doing tasting tours now. I had some friends visit over Memorial Day.
Don’t they “give” it away if you pay for the tour?
@@tconlon251 Yup, that's how they get away with it. They also "gift" something to their employees every year around the holidays.
I'm here for the random unexpected Becca questions. No idea what she's gonna say but I know it's gonna be gold.
😂😂😂
The reason why we had so many alcoholics in this time of America was because drink options were basically limited to alcohol, water and milk. Soda and fruit juices would be coming in a little later but not before prohibition took effect.
Yeah because the pasteurization process which not only helps to preserve milk but also prevents grape juice from fermenting into wine wasn’t invented until after the ratification of the 18th amendment.
Great reaction video. FYI vodka is made from potatoes. Moonshine is specific to liquor and is usually made from "mash," frequently a mix of corn, barley, yeast and maybe sugar that sits and ferments for a week or so. After it ferments, it contains a mix of water and alcohols: methanol (bad) and ethanol (tasty). Distillation is next where the first to be removed is methanol which has the lowest boiling point then ethanol with a higher bp. Excess methanol consumption can cause blindness, where excess ethanol consumption can cause regret and unwanted children.
Just learn about it from "The Great Escape"
So funny when you cracked open a couple of beers to watch this. Also that she wore a shirt with red wine stains on it. Good job.
Red wine stains?! I cannot unsee that pattern as red wine stains now 🙃😂
@@becca7989 ooops....sorry, I thought you did that on purpose as a funny thing for this video reaction.
@@ryanje8147 😂 no but I’m glad it fits in with the vid looking back now!
Moonshine is homemade whiskey, so it's at least 51% corn and then you add barley or rye for flavor. Moonshine is clear because whiskey comes out clear and turns bronze in the aging process. Vodka is what's made with potatoes. A benefit of living in Kentucky is we have Bourbon Whiskey distilleries in almost every county and you can get tours and educated on it and taste test.
Vodka. Vodka is alcohol from potatoes.
Yup! Came here to say the same thing!
Learn about that from "The Great Escape"
@Throw Away Cheeky. I was being cheeky. Jeez, man.
Oh the irony of you lots drinking beer while watching a vid about prohibition
*Proceed to casually sips a glass of rum
I love the fact you guys are drinking beer while reacting to this, I'm dying😂
😂😂😂gotta be done
Good soldiers follow orders
@@Pope_Francis_III *Headache intensifies*
@@JamesCornwall95 finally, a man of culture
100 % you can make moon shine with potatoes !! You can use anything really, corn, berries, any fruit, and alot of other things
But normal moonshine is made with corn
Just learn about that from "The Great Escape"
American moonshine is usually made from corn, but I'm pretty sure what Becca is thinking of is poitin (sp?), which is Irish moonshine made from potatoes. It's one of those things that foreign tourists get warned about by elderly relatives when going to Ireland, "Oooh, be sure you don't drink any of that pot-cheen, or you'll go blind!" No idea if it's still even a widespread thing over there. I associate it with the sort of outdated travel advice one gets from really old people, you know, like information about where to order your traveler's checks.
Finally the OG Norseman reacted to Prohibition 👌
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About the women complaining about alcohol -- to be fair, during the height of the women's temperance movement, the laws were pretty harsh from women's POV. Not only could a man drink his whole paycheck and leave his family to starve, or be evicted from their homes, but if his wife got a job (and many of these women were working class, and did have jobs), when *she* came home with *her* pay, it was legal for her husband to take it and go back to the bar. Legally, he owned her pay, because he was her husband.
So if a man was an alcoholic, he could do serious damage to his family and his wife had no options at all. (DIvorce was also horribly shameful at this time, mostly for the woman, so leaving him would destroy her reputation and make it harder for her to get a job to support her kids.) The law was completely on the drunk husband's side, whether he was beating up his wife and kids, or just drinking all their income so they went hungry.
This wasn't just a bunch of "Karens" with sticks up their arses. These women were fighting for their own welfare, and their children's, in a system where everything was stacked against them. Making alcohol illegal didn't actually solve these problems, but it seemed like a good idea at the time, back when it was assumed that alcohol was why some men abused their families.
Does the video really make them seem like Karens? It seems they make legitimate points for why alcohol was bad. Sure, they don’t go into as much a detail as you, but this is called Oversimplified for a reason
About the George Remus case, it was found out that Remus' wife had actually hired someone to kill him when he got out of prison, but the assassin instead confessed this plot to Remus
Remus then decided to kill his wife before she could kill him, and won his case by pleading self-defence and temporary insanity due to the betrayal
Bonus fact: the prohibition agent Remus' wife was having an affair with was actually working undercover as an inmate where Remus was jailed. Remus befriended him in jail and confessed that his wife was in control of all his money. When the agent heard this, he immediately resigned from his job and went straight to Remus' wife and began their affair
So the agent betrayed his new friend? Or was he having the affair to kind of get info on the wife to tell Remus what she was doing?
Idk if this comes from prohibition but until recently (like within the last 10 years or so) in my state, Minnesota, it was illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays. You could still buy it at like bars and restaurants, but all liquor stores in the state had to close on Sunday
They still close early on Sunday. I went around 6:30 PM to buy some beer and the store was closed. Thankfully there was a brewery nearby where I could buy some crowlers.
1) Many of those opposed to alcohol were fundamentalist Protestants, about whom I have it heard it said that their mission in life is stop anyone from ever having any fun.
2) Like other "hot button" issues in politics, the divide over Prohibition was socio-economic: rural vs. urban, conservative vs. liberal, native-born vs. immigrant, Protestant vs. Catholic, white vs. black, etc.
3) My paternal grandmother, who was the granddaughter of Irish immigrants, told me that in the 1920s as a teenage girl she helped her father run a grocery store. They had a compartment under the floor from which they sold illegal liquor.
4) The word "scofflaw" was the winning entry in a contest to create a new word to refer to the epidemic of illegal drinking.
5) It's remarkable how quickly Prohibition ended, especially considering how difficult it is to change the U.S. Constitution.
6) Although the violence and corruption are not as widespread, the "War on Drugs" is "Prohibition 2.0," and has also been a colossal failure. It started almost immediately after Prohibition ended, in part so the Federal law enforcement officials wouldn't lose their jobs. It's the reason why the U.S. has by far the highest incarceration rate in the world. It's also to blame for a massive erosion of civil liberties in the criminal justice system, because there are too many drug arrests for the courts to have time for jury trials. Instead those arrested are often indicted on many charges and plead guilty to only some of them, regardless of their guilt, saving the time and expense required for a trial. There are people serving life sentences for non-violent drug offenses. Those who do get out of prison often lose their voting privileges for life, which has not been but should be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The hysteria over the Drug War leads both political parties to appoint or elect prosecutors and judges who simply disregard parts of the Bill of Rights. More than 80 years later some U.S. states have "legalized" marijuana, which is absurd because it's still illegal under federal law. Those states that have legalized marijuana have to just hope that whoever is U.S. President instructs the Department of Justice to simply ignore federal law.
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I grew up in a “Dry county” no alcohol sales, in Texas. It just legalized alcohol sales in 2008
My great-great and great-grandpa had ties to the Italian mafia in Chicago. My grandpa used to tell me stories about “family” he met in Chicago when he was a kid.
Elvis Juice!!!! My favorite!! Brewed in my tiny hometown of Canal Winchester, Ohio; Tokyo, Japan; and Aberdeen, Scotland!
Just a few people dinking
While watching a video about not drinking
Glorious
In this situation women probably started the movement because they weren't the ones drinking heavily and they experienced more of the negative effects of it
This woman deserves seeing her man in a roaring 20s suit!!
I'm from Tennessee... a state that is notorious for moonshine. My grandfather actually made it and ran it for a living lol. We make our moonshine out of corn here... but you could use potatoes I guess. Anything starchy.
Moonshine was primarily made from corn since the great plains mostly grows corn.
I spent one summer during college working as a field technician for the forestry department at a major university in the South. This required me to wend my way back up into the hills to collect water samples from remote stations that were sited on creeks and streams. And yes, the moonshine stills were still there (of course, not all of them were as old as the 1920s).
I loved that you cracked open some beers lol. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
If I remember correctly prior to prohibition there was no federal income tax and alcohol was a major tax revenue for the federal government. To replace the tax revenue the income tax was instituted. After prohibition ended it never went away, even though alcohol is still taxed.
Actually, the constitutional amendment instituting the federal income tax was put into place in 1913, seven years before Prohibition. Wayne Wheeler worked with advocates of the income tax to get it passed, since he knew that the federal government needed some form of revenue to replace the loss of liquor tax dollars if Prohibition was to be adopted.
Also even before the "income tax" amendment (that's not technically what it's about, but its technical purpose is complicated and boring and the reason it was passed was to create the income tax system we have now, so sure, it's the "income tax" amendment), there had been temporary income taxes like during the American Civil War. But basically Congress got tired of the Supreme Court being like "No, you can't just set taxes based on how much money someone actually has, you have to adjust for their state's population and the percentage of the federal budget and..." (I told you it was complicated and boring.)
Yes, you can make alcohol from potatoes. If it's got carbohydrates, whether simple (sugars) or complex (starches), you can probably do things to it to make it straightforward for yeast to eat the carbs and excrete alcohol.
19:10 "LimeWire used to give my PC aids." Everyone agrees.
So true 😂
It should be noted that before the 1900's the primary way of preserving food was to stick it in some form of brine, syrup, or alcohol. Ice Boxes, the predecessor to modern refrigerators, first became commercially available in the 1840's, but were more of a short-term solution as the ice would slowly melt over the course of several days, necessitating regular restocks. So if you were a mid-to-lower-class citizen and wanted a drink, you were usually limited to either water (which was often less than sanitary) or an alcoholic beverage.
You can absolutely make alcohol from potatoes. Potato vodka's a thing, for example.
Also, the Irish have definitely made potato liquor. I think the legal poitín is grain these days, but it can be made with potatoes as well (and also, y'know, illegally).
Learn about it from "The Great Escape"
Stumbling across this while drinking apple pie moonshine is epic😂
🙏🏻 Yes ! Please do 3 Kingdoms. That Era inspired a game I use to play called Dynasty Warriors. & It's Similar to how Game of Thrones. Was Partially inspired by the War of the Roses.
Moonshine can be made from almost anything. Usually corn, but also potatoes, apples, peaches, etc.
She DID steal from him, but as a rule you don't really want to just murder people. Also Pizza is Italian-American not Italian. That had not much to do with the video I just want to make that clear.
Actually pizza is Italian but like all foods that came to America it became Americanized. Would you say tacos aren’t Mexican because Taco Bell’s tacos aren’t Mexican.
@@MrSophire first off, after researching more turns out that yes, pizza was from Italy but it became huge when it came to america. Second, who in the actual hell would say that Tacos aren't Mexican?
Absolutely love that yall had a drink during the video. Totally appropriate. Lol. As an American, you have my respect.
moonshine was typically made from corn and/or barley. Corn mash to distilled product and then sometimes distilled a second time yielded clear alcohol. This type alcohol aged in casks became whiskey and/or bourbon.
Love the vids! You two are just a delight! :)
"Moon Shine", the term, came about because many of the back country stills were operated at night, to keep from being caught. In the mountains of Eastern USA, they used grain mash (not potatoes). But I would guess, in the North, at least some people used potatoes....to make Vodka.
It’s called Moonshine because they needed moonshine to make it. It’s made out of apple peels and honey. It Is a separate drink mainly from the Appalachia. Vodka is made of potatos
6:15, I know its a joke but it is a factor. The average workday for a man in the late 19th century in the us was 12 hours often 7 days a week with only 1 day a month fully off, for female workers the average work week was a "light" 10 hour day 6 days a week. Its not that women were "trying to keep busy" its that when you look at anything but the absolutely wealthiest in society most men were to busy to even consider social activism unless an issue was so destructive it 100% forced it. In pre revolution Paris you have a similar situation except the average male working hours was 13 with most men working 14 hour days.
Moonshine is basically corn whiskey that has *not* been aged but simply bottled/jugged straight from the still for sell or consumption -- though some also use the world moonshine for (any) illegal hard grain liquor.
Drinking beer while reacting to Prohibition.... MAD GENIUS XD
I recommend watching the movie "lawless" with tom hardy and shia LaBeouf is about the prohibition
I thought you already reacted to it but I am glad that you uploaded.
I did but people wanted to see Becc's reaction 💪🏼I enjoyed so I dm watching it again
@@JamesCornwall95 ohh ok
You know its a good sign your girl said that womans death was acceptable before even acknowledging the part where she robbed the guy. That girl LOYAL lmao
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I live in the American deep South and my American ancestry goes back at least three generations. I am also Irish Catholic so let me educate you. Moonshine is actually corn whiskey that has not been aged in oak barrel so does not turn brown and is clear. It’s also sometimes called white lightning or hooch. Vodka is made from potatoes, rum is made from molasses which is what you get when you processed sugar cane along with sugar, tequila is made from a plant that only grows in the in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico. American whiskey is usually made from rye and corn.
There were THREE "Hoovers" that were famous at this time. "Hoover" the President. "Hoover" the head of the FBI. And "Hoover" the vacuum cleaner.
My grandparents used to go to "SpeakEasys" and drink during prohibition and drank "Bathtub Gin" at parties. They were pretty hip and my grandma was a "Flapper".
Elvis Juice is delicious. I lived down the street from the US based Brewdog brewery in Columbus, Ohio. Excellent beer; great choice.
I’m glad you guys are finally reacting to this 👍
It's sooo good !!!
@@JamesCornwall95 it is indeed and I know it’s been said before but I love both your reactions to videos you both seem like your enjoying it rather than just watching it 👍
If it can be fermented, then it can make alcohol. Potato alcohol absolutely exists. Luksusowa is a brand of potato vodka.
As for the term "moonshine," that came about because the people making were doing it at night, to avoid getting caught. Ergo, "by the light of the moon."
Dude, it's a reaction, that's why we're here, we want to hear you speak about the video. Otherwise we would just go and watch the original.
What’s the lesson? Never be a crime lord. The IRS will get you. Always.
I love y'all's reactions. So funny sometimes. 🤣
But seriously though, prohibition was awful. Obviously for many reasons like the video stated. I had relatives back in that time who were moonshiners and did bootlegging of booze in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. Also, most of the moonshine around my area and northeastern Tennessee, was made out of corn. At least to my knowledge. Btw, if yall ever come to the US, come to Tennessee where you can see all this Prohibition stuff.
I've been to Tennessee but I spent my whole time in Nashville about 3 days I think, it was amazing !!
@@JamesCornwall95 next time y'all come, if y'all come over together, check out cities and towns around Chattanooga, Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Johnson City, and just a whole lot of places in the Smokies. You'll love it there!
Ohhhh dear sir. Moonshine is NOT just illegal booze. It homemade whiskey and while still illegal in a lot of places, there are many where you can buy it legally. It is still sometimes illegal because home brewers often made batches that Literally made people go blind. (The homemade stuff, not the stuff you can get in stores now)
Main thing to know tho is that it is STUPID strong. It was made to get you drunk, period, so it is tasteless and as close to rubbing alcohol as they can get it without being harmful to consume. There are moonshines that are 190 proof… which is 95% alchohol.
I *think* the word you might be thinking of is bootlegged. You can have bootlegged whiskey or bootlegged vodka or beer and that would mean illegal stuff, but you wouldn’t say you had some moonshine and mean you had some illegally gotten beer.
Alcohol.
The type of alcohol in the alcoholic drinks we drink is a chemical called ethanol. To make alcohol, you need to put grains, fruits or vegetables through a process called fermentation (when yeast or bacteria react with the sugars in food - the by-products are ethanol and carbon dioxide). It is produced by fermenting carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches.
So to answer your question. Yes, you can make alcohol from Potatoes. Or anything that can ferment. Prunes, Bananas, Carrots, Lettuce, Spinach, Broccoli, Raspberries, Corn... anything that decays and produces Carbs.
There's a cave near me here in Alabama that was a speakeasy during Prohibition called Bangor Cave. It has a bar, dance floor for strippers, and even a jail cell carved out of the rocks.
Poitin is an Irish moonshine. It's traditionally made from potato skins, although you can make it in different ways.
25:21 Im a big fan of this woman 🤣
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Yeah the Hoover Dam was built by Hoover. That and getting Capone were his 2 accomplishments. But failing to do anything about the Great Depression is his main legacy
Moonshine comes from the back woods cooking the shine by the light of the moon.... at least that's my understanding.
They kept a-lookin', Pappy kept a-cookin'.
can you guys do a react on internet historian videos?
Moonshine is made from corn vodka is made from potatoes but there also moonshine made from potatoes it depends on where in the us it's being made
"I don't know what she's talking about? Do you take care of your family?" is my favorite line in this video.
"Acceptable?"
"..."
"Acceptable."
Lmao y'all are awesome.
I been waiting for you guys to react to this, thank you.
alcohol from potatoes is called Vodka in Russia and poteen in ireland
So Irish moonshine is made out of potatoes but it’s not called moonshine. It’s called poitin, pronounced pah-cheen. My grandfather brought it back from Ireland one time and an Irish tsa agent pulled it out of his bag (it’s illegal) and the agent asked what it was and my grandpa told him it was Irish spring water from his mothers well and he could have some if he’d like. The agent took a whif and said to him, “it’s a wee bit early in the mornin for me to be drinking your mother’s Irish well water”. The guy put it back in his bag and let him go. God I miss that man
You two should do a twenties theme vid, where you fancy dress as a gangster and a flapper.
I think a reaction to some big video talking about facts about all the US Presidents would be neat. There are a lot of them, especially in the Victorian Era, that even most Americans don't know much or anything about.
Moonshine is most often made from corn - though it can be made from anything with sugar in it.
Moonshine is made of corn. A friend’s Great Grandfather had three farms. One for corn, one for stills and one for hogs who ate the evidence (corn husks and stalks.) His name is still well known in Alabama. In my family (California) there’s a story about our Great Grandmother setting the bathtub on fire while making bathtub gin. She had to call the fire dept and explain WHY the bathtub was on fire. I’m sure the firemen got a chuckle out of that. In some versions of the story, the local Bishop was at a lunch party in the backyard. I doubt they were drinking tea. LOL.
You can make alcohol out of pretty much anything, so you can make it out of potatoes. I’m interested to see if anyone used onion?
When you mention, would they end the income-tax after prohibition ended. I just laughed, who has ever heard of a government, willingly ending a tax. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Women got the vote just after the tap was turned off; the Eighteenth Amendment was followed quickly by the Nineteenth. Prohibition was directly related to the steady rise in female political power and influence throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focused on an issue which had been of paramount importance to women for decades. No one knew better the destructive effects of alcohol on the family.
Another good video
My moms side of my family immigrated to America from Ireland in 1918 and my dads side immigrated from Germany in 1916. I'm sure they were all confused as shit lol.
Love the vid
Oh YEAH, Potatoes are used to make alcohol. Mostly Vodka today.....
But back THEN! You would use potatoes as a substitute for grains, as well as corn, beets, and a variety of other fruits or vegetables. And you would need a lot of sugar as well.
And depending on what you used, you would get a different "taste" overall, AND an additional taste based on where/how it was made. So, you would have a "corn based moonshine" in North Carolina that had a more 'sweeter' taste than say "corn based moonshine" made in Texas. It was all based on the TYPE of corn used, the AMOUNT used, how you made it as far as distilling and boiling, what type of sugar used, how consistent your "mash" was (ground corn), the different type of water to boil (stream,city, well ..etc) and temps used to cook.
So while "Corn Moonshine" was considered the 'standard' and had a "smooth, strong, but slightly sweet taste, "Potato Moonshine would be more "smooth, but milder and little sweetness overall", and then of course you run the gambit of variations, styles, locations, mixtures, added flavors etc.etc.
back before Prohibition you could walk into any bar buy a 5 cent beer and that entitled you to the beef and potatoes or Turkey at the end of the bar, al supplied by the brewery
As Churchill said, you can always count on America to do the right thing, after having tried every other option
Moon shine is whiskey made from Corn. both my great grandparents on my dads side made moonshine
A great video to watch after a day where I began drinking at brunch. Btw dae hate that oversimplified pronounces women as “woman”
Irish poteen is typically made with potatoes… from anywhere from 40% to 90% alcohol content
@1:55 we roast ourselves. Any American with a spine has no problem with other countries roasting us.
P.S. I'm drinking a beer watching this LAMO!!!
Moonshine got its name cause that's when it was made by the light of the moon and its still around today.
Fun fact: Moonshiners invented NASCAR
You should checkout the untouchables
One of the big reasons women pushed prohibition so hard, which was glossed over, is the high instances of domestic abuse/violence connected to alcohol. A lot of women got into the temperance movement because they felt they had to for their safety and the safety of their children. Plus, the job opportunities for women were extremely limited, and payed little, so women could rarely leave/divorce their husbands (and many courts would only push forward divorce if the husband consented, so...). They felt their only option was to outlaw alcohol, which was undoubtedly contributing to domestic violence.
Also, many women couldn't join in and just get drunk. It was not really socially acceptable for women to go to taverns back then. Plus, they ran their house and raised their kids. If they went out and protested, they could come back when they felt like it. If they got drunk or became an alcoholic, they couldn't. Instances of alcoholism were way lower in women than in men, simply because they didn't have the same access that men did, so it helps explain why women had to get the ball rolling