The London Beer Flood: When a Million Pints Flooded the Streets

Podcast: Yore Town · Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Opublikowano: 2026-10-05

On October 17, 1814, a 700-pound iron hoop fell from a massive wooden vat inside London’s Horse Shoe Brewery. The vat held more than one million pints of porter. The workers noticed the problem. They reported it. But hoops had slipped before, and nothing catastrophic had happened. About an hour later, the vat exploded. The resulting flood tore through the brewery, brought down a wall, and poured into the neighboring St. Giles area, where families lived in cramped homes and basement rooms directly in its path. Eight people were killed, including children and a 14-y...