Whiskumentary - Prohibition | Part 1: Who the F**k Thought This Was a Good Idea?

Whiskeys: Old Forester Bourbon • Old Fitzgerald Bourbon • James E. Pepper 1776 whiskeys • Old Grand-Dad Bourbon • Four Roses Bourbon • Old Overholt Rye • Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye • Pikesville Rye

Topics: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union wanted to ban alcohol... everywhere on Earth • Carrie Nation: The Crazy Old Hatchet Lady • Some states outlawed alcohol years before the 18th Amendment • Americans at the turn of the 20th Century were drinking A LOT of whiskey (and beer) • The powerful German immigrant breweries (still around today!) • Wayne Webber's Anti-Saloon League turned the country against booze • The surprising anti-alcohol connections between income tax and the 1920 census • “Liberty Cabbage” was the original “Freedom Fries” • Somebody edited the Bible (!) to remove all references to alcohol • Significant whiskey events prior to 1900 • Old Overholt Rye QuickTaste

Music Credits: Whiskey on the Mississippi by Kevin MacLeod | Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ • Hello Ma Baby by Arthur Collins (1899, Public Domain) • Over There by George Cohen (1917, Public Domain)