It's the 18th Century. Britain is deep at war with France (probably) and Londoners are getting slaughtered on a ‘throat-searing, eye-reddening, vomit-churning hell broth’ of fermented juniper berries and sulphuric acid.



In what powder-faced, big-wigged, coffee house creeping Georgians are already calling the 40th episode of the CB Wallop Podcast join Phil Jerrod and Phil Lucas as they discuss The London Gin Craze - the unaccountable popularity of a beverage so strong it caused birth defects, blindness, and in some extreme cases, actual infantacide. 



Fancy sucking down a triple Beefeater from the Puss-and-Mew machine tonight? No... no thanks.



Trigger warning. This one’s all about the problems of drinking too much - but don’t worry - there’s nothing on the market these days that comes close to the horrors of 18th Century homebrew - unless you’re drinking out of your lawnmower that is. There is a bit of child murder in this one, and a little bit of nasty childhood illness - but mostly it’s underprivileged Georgians having a right old knees up.



Written by Phil Lucas

Edited by Phil Jerrod

Music by Steve Adam



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Sources

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/04/01/the-250th-anniversary-of-londons-gin-riots/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Craze

https://spartacus-educational.com/LONgin.htm

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/53jj7z/how-a-gin-craze-nearly-destroyed-18th-century-london

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes/2001/booze/history.stm

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/gin-craze-panic-18th-century-london-when-came-england-alcohol-drinking-history/

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/08/today-in-londons-drunken-history-a-gin-riot-in-seven-dials-1735/

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiebell/2017/09/05/the-sordid-history-of-londons-gin-craze-and-how-one-distiller-revived-it-for-the-better/#7142a8a96b41

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Act_1751

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https://www.metro.news/where-are-all-the-dead-pigeons/1126806/#:~:text=London%20alone%20is%20estimated%20to,not%20strewn%20across%20city%20streets.

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