Garrett Peck on The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America From Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet

[scapegoat666]

why do you keep saying deep south stop watching little nicky

[shamsalasl]

Drinking alcohol is forbidden in Islam. God says in the Holy Quran the following verse:

" O You who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones and (divination by) arrows are an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. Avoid (such abominations) that you may prosper. ."

[ReaganGoldwaterBuckl]

The more alcohol in a beverage means it's rotted longer (fermentation). Biblical wine was desirable when it was new wine (least rotten/fermented) as they had no means of continually cooling their beverages. Highly alcoholic wine would have meant it was exposed to heat (sunlight) and thus distasteful. The Bible does differentiate between strong drink, wine and new wine. I also have been to Bible college and studied Biblical languages and you're wrong.

[gunslingerfire]

@ReaganGoldwaterBuckl Hold on a second. Fermentation has nothing to do with rotting. Fermentation is when active yeast cultures convert sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The same exact thing that happens when bread rises. The higher alcohol content in fermented beverages has a lot to do with the sugar content of the fruit juices or malted barley, not how long it was exposed to heat. Alcohol acts as a preservative also. I also agree that prohibition is a system of controlling people. 

[klippklar314]

god and bible? what does this shit have to do with alcohol?!?!

[dao3rd123]

The 3.2 beer is shit.That's all they would serve us in the Army. When we got a pass we went off base and got some good beer along with whiskey.

[kittyprydekissme]

My state is one of those with the 3.2 beer. People still manage to get pretty drunk on it.

[TheCanadianDude]

Canadian brewer's made huge profits during US prohibition. Thank You US Prohibition :)

[schroff1968]

@TheCanadianDude If the US is stupid enough to vote these social conservative tea party canidates in the senate and House like Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell than you canadians might be making those huge profits again. Sharron Angle has said back in 2006 that she favors alcohol prohibition

[TheCanadianDude]

@schroff1968 I definitely can't argue with that :) 

[WarWithIran]

Excellent Video,,,Into My Favorites,,5 Stars,,,,Peace.

[mipoleon]

I graduated from Bible college, took 3 years of Hebrew and 2 years of Greek. When Jesus turned water into wine it was alchoholic. There is alot of distortion over the greek word oinos. It was not grape juice which tastes totally different than wine. Futhermore if Jesus created grape juice and passed it off as wine it would make Jesus to be a fraud. The Bible has a lot to say about abusing alcohol and doesnt really condemn casual use. Psalm 104:15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man

[Poofykatoob]

You can't ban something almost everyone wants for recreation and chill-out reasons.

[vrghiks]

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.Proverbs 20

[vrghiks]

Jesus never turned the water into alcohoic

wine,then write in his Word this passage.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.Alcohoic

This would be a contradiction of scriptures.Real Christians know the bible

has no errors.

What if anything does science no about spiritual things?

Catholicism is false teaching of the Jesus of the bible.

[Nonoyawns]

I think most people here would rather not get into a jumble over the numerous contradictions of the Bible.

[vrghiks]

Man is the contradictor,not God,

Real Christians know this for a fact.

You need to get down off your intellect and believe the Gospel.

[megsies]

I've always thought it was funny that the the gov (the province, not the state, hee) sells alcohol in some provinces in Canada. How did they mask the money making angle in a country without a huge temperance movement or a messload of Puritan ancestors screwing with their ethics? I'd rather be back in Georgie where I couldn't buy on a single day than only have working hours (9 to 5, if that) to purchase from a store with no competition.

[WarWithIran]

Alcohol is Healthy and Beneficial....Only When You Abuse Alcohol Is It Bad and Unhealthy,,,,When Drunk,, People Do ALL Kinds of Stupid and Even EVIL Things They Would NEVER Do Sober.!!!,,,Balance Is Critical.!!!,,High on Alcohol Good,,,,,DRUNK On Alcohol BAD.!!!

[vrghiks]

Alcohol is Healthy and Beneficial?

Lots of people pushing up daisies that had these thoughts.

[skibiskit]

Is it just me or does Nick seem unsettled or less friendly in this video?

[samuils]

Who cares about religions speaking about one thing or another, if they wish not to drink, then who cares. As long as religions dont make laws, it doesnt matter. Jews advocate circumcision, as long as people in Judaism do it, and its not a law, good for them who cares, same goes for alcohol

[truthsabre7]

I don't drink enough.

[Mackingster]

I don't drink, but I would never force that choice on others. Prohibition is just another system of control.

[tweekscratch]

So this guy writes a book about something that happened 3 generations ago. He couldnt actually talk to the people, he has little to no actual data. And this is non-fiction? It's an opinion piece.

And as far as the 'deep' south not drinking....right....no drinking going on in Alabama, or Mississippi. Maybe he's a climate researcher on the side.

[AngrySkeptic]

Did you read the book?

He said "SELECT" places in the deep south.

There are still dry counties in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Texas.

Learn the facts(or do a simple google search) before embarrassing yourself with that yawning maw of yours.

[tweekscratch]

wow. more anger than skepticism here.

living in a dry county doesnt mean people don't drink. They have cars. Why do you think there are so GD many "County Line Liquors"?

Good job living down to expectations of internet trolls.

[AngrySkeptic]

The very fact that those dry counties still exist is an artifact of the temperance movement and it's modern adherents.

You know, exactly what he said in this video.

Your southern nationalism is showing.

[tweekscratch]

I really shouldnt, but....

So the skeptic knows what I know? Really? I'd think an 'AngrySkeptic' would be more careful than that.

What exactly is wrong with liking where you live? I was born in California and grew up overseas. By good fortune and choice I didnt end up in a hell hole like CA, NY, or MA.

Finally, listen very closely to what he actually is saying. Were I a skeptic I'd have serious doubts he knows what he claims to know. Work of fiction. Not scholarly research.

[ladyattis]

I can't be sure, but I think there's maybe one dry county here in Kansas or at least there was one up until the 70s. I can't be sure.

[fomastephanovitch]

A prohibitionist is the type of person you wouldn't choose to drink with even if he did drink.

[averagejoe040]

I might care less.

[sfstew]

I don't think I could care less...

[truvelocity]

1/3?

[helltrackrider]

....and for the othe 1/3 that does not drink...i will drink for them.

[DMWestWoodElite]

Fuck yes

[oilhammer04]

If my understanding of the issue with prohibition is correct, there was an element of tragedy in families where the father was a drunkard and the family suffered greatly as a result of this. Welfare now absorbs these families, so we may not be as keenly aware of the sadness of this. There was alcoholism in my family that turned me off to alcohol. It is sad what drunkenness does to families.  BTW, the Bible condemns drunkenness, not drink.

[MagnusIan]

oilhammer, the Bible says a lot of things. That being said, I don't drink anyway. Could care less if the Bible was against it.

[chert95]

Magnuslan:

If you could care less, it means you care. If you COULDN'T care less, it means you don't care. Pick :)

[MagnusIan]

Well woopsy-fucking-doo. I couldN'T care less. xD

[oilhammer04]

I was just responding to the point that came up in this interview. Actually, I think it is correct when you say "Could care less . . . "

[oilhammer04]

The Statists are making moves to prohibit freedom. We should rebel against this, too. I once had to answer a call to a domestic disturbance and the fight started over whether wine in the Bible was alcoholic or not. The wife stabbed her husband during the dispute. I don't care for alcohol as a whole, but don't think any disagreement should end with knives drawn. The Bible speaks of new wine and old wine. The new, unfermented, wine was grape juice and the old wine was fermented.

[andristic]

in texas you can't buy alcohol after midnight on a weekday. give me a break. just when the party's getting started, the nanny state sweeps in to rain on your parade. this creates unsafe driving habits as people rush to the store at 11:50pm, plus some people will simply steal the alcohol if they get to the register at 12:01 am.

[dudemanbearpig]

Gotta love the law of unintended consequences.

[standj21]

If if was Un-fermented wine is would have been translated to "Fruit of the Vine" not "wine" so Jesus actually did Drink Fermented wine, on several occasions.

[MarcusCMarcellus]

In the deep south? Hardly. The only place where alcohol is a sin is Utah, where the ridiculous Mormons will not even mix the drink for you. In most of the South people happily drink like fish.

[TheHonestBookOfTruth]

He is speaking of the Legislation's perception of alcohol. Unfortunately in some places, Alabama for instance, the government regulates not only the acceptable alcohol %/V for all drinks in the state, but the amount, in gallons, the state is allowed to hold. Going so far as to bar certain companies from shipping products if the state is at it's "quota" or the alcohol %/V is to high. For example beer cannot be over 6%/V in Alabama. Also Ohio has laws barring the import of most wine to the state.

[helltrackrider]

...and here in Florida, we cannot purchase 40's...GAY!