Trying PLAGUE WATER! (Traditional British Drinks

Hello! Hello, Ollie. I'm josh. …That?! She fired me. I thought you were going to say "Hi, I'm Josh." Everybody knows. And this is Ollie. That's undermining the introduction here! Hi, I'm Josh! I'm Ollie... This is JOLLY! That wasn't a very JOYFUL introduction but... Yeah, I'm feeling pretty JOYFUL! What we thought we'd do today is go over some

traditional

English

drinks

. Traditional English

drinks

? Josh: How far back are we going? How

traditional

? Ollie: The first one is from the 1820s. Josh: Oh, that's pretty traditional! Well! Chris: This looks like Robinsons... That's the first one! Chris: Is it?

Josh: Wait, what? Ollie: That's the first one! Josh: Robinson? Yes, that's a traditional... Robinson's barley

water

. There you go! That's classic English. Barley

water

is something they have in Korea! Yeah, but... Ollie: This is nothing like that. Josh: Nobody knows that in England... This is particularly English, I'd say. Also, that's not water! That says orange! It's bright orange! Basically, back in the day, in the 1830s, they realized that if you boiled barley with lemon peel, it stopped really sick people from vomiting. Chris: WOW! I love that. Josh: WHAT? Then we pour a little, like pumpkin, we pour water on top.

So I don't think he ever had this as a kid. And that's why when I first went to Korea and you said, let's drink some barley water, I said, How sweet! I love it! And you drank it and you think: What the hell is this?! Chris: Greetings everyone. Ollie: Let's do it! That's classic! There are the childhood memories. You know that different senses have different abilities to evoke memories. Ollie: The taste is pretty good. Josh: Oh! A little strong for me. Ollie: That's good. Josh: Weird! It feels like I've been playing in the garden. Chris: Yeah, right?

Ollie: I've got a little mud on my knees. This is like drinking memories. Oh, it's so good. Drinking memories… That should be the advertising campaign. Robinsons Fruit Barley… It's like drinking good memories. Funnily enough, now that I know what it is and am drinking it, I can taste the wheat! The barley! The grain! It's like a smell. It's like walking through a wheat field. Josh: Okay, Ollie: Next, it's been around in the UK since the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages?! Yes. Dandelion and burdock. Oh my God. Chris: Dandelion and burdock? Josh: Wow! Well! This is that old!

This is old! The thing is, I've seen him in pubs and stuff. Josh: So you can buy it in England! Chris: Yeah, I've actually seen it. It's so traditional that we didn't even know it was traditional. Wow, I've never tried that and it smells really weird. It also has gas! Pretty interested in this one. I thought I had this before, but it's so weird! It's like halfway between root beer and toothpaste! And Dr. Pepper? Maybe! Ooh… So this is like the original soda! The original Dr. Pepper! Health! Dandelion and burdock. Let's do it! That's... That's quite nice!

That's not as strong as I thought it would be. The smell is definitely stronger than the taste. Chris: Which is weird! Ollie: Although... It tastes a lot like anesthetic. Chris: You don't like it. Ollie: Josh's tongue has already gone numb. If this was like a medicinal drink from the Middle Ages, I think they stole the recipe, made it taste good, and then released it as Dr. Pepper. Ollie: That's a bold statement, that's responsible too... Chris: Responsible. Isn't that responsible? Ollie: I'm going to distance myself from that statement. Chris: I'm not supporting Josh on this... Ollie: Okay, Josh: Okay.

Come on. Next. Cider. Well. Everyone knows cider. Cider is not really an English drink, it was actually invented in the Mediterranean region. Josh: SERIOUSLY?! Ollie: But the reason I included it is because the cider we have in England is slightly different from the cider everywhere else, and it's certainly different from the cider they have in Korea and the United States. Because American cider has no alcohol. Actually? Isn't it just apple juice? No, well it's kind of... I think it's fizzy? I mean, cider in Korea is basically Sprite. Isn't he an alcoholic?! Oh no, it's, it's... lemonade.

Cider is literally like Sprite. Strange! Cider in the UK is always alcoholic. Yeah! Could it be as a percentage of beer? But it is often a little stronger. So this is 6%, so it's strong... That's 7.4?! Oh my days! Josh: This is traditional cider. Ollie: Yeah. And this is like the classic west country cider pot. Which may look a bit like a container of maple syrup. So what do we have? We have aged dry cider and... ...Scrumpy Cider, which I think is probably sweeter. Delicious cider! That sounds... Josh: That's a good name. Ollie: Another thing, this is not fizzy.

Josh: Yes, this is traditional cider. Chris: Really?! Ollie: This is flat. Josh: Yes! It's dry! Yeah! Chris: No... Ollie: Haven't you tried still cider before? No! Josh: Are you serious? Chris: Yes! No! Here, try some dry cider first. This one is strong. Well. Josh: See? Christ: That looks like whiskey! Almost no bubbles. Chris: OH MY GOD! Chris: OH MY GOD! Josh: What does it smell like? X2 STRONG Cider! Ollie: Oh wow. Josh: This is traditional cider! Ollie: That smells like a pub bathroom. Josh: This is traditional cider! Josh: No, it's not like that…. Ollie: That's right.

Chris: Okay, shall we go? Josh: Hello guys! Health! Cider! Traditional British cider. That has made the little details here become ZING! Why are traditional drinks so strong? I don't usually like cider, and I would say that has strengthened my opinion. It has to be summer. I feel it is necessary to have bales of hay around us. And then that would be fantastic. You know that the environment makes a difference. Ollie: That's right. Josh: It's almost... it's almost sour! It has a royal touch! Josh: It's like sharp. Ollie and Chris: Yes. It's clear. Do we want to try Scrumpy?

Ooh! In comparison, it smells almost syrupy. Alright! Health! I do not know about that. That's a cheesy touch! It tastes... somehow it tastes more like fart. I think it's better than the dry vintage. Chris: It tastes like warm urine. Ollie: Yes. It does. WELL! That's ok. That was cider, we have one more drink, Chris. Chris: Okay. Josh: One more! Alright! Well, you always say the weird thing at the end, so I'm a little interested... in what you're going to do. Have you heard of

plague

water? Josh: Oh no... Oh no! Chris: STINK water?! Josh: That's nothing!

Chris: That probably doesn't exist anymore... Well, not anymore, but we did make some. Josh: What do you mean we did some? Christ: What do you mean?! Let me read. Plague Water is the name given to a variety of medicinal waters supposedly potent against the Plague. Most common was the distillation of various herbs and roots believed to be affective. Recipes typically contain no less than 22 herbal products, both leaves and roots... Josh: TWENTY-TWO?! Ollie: macerated in white wine or brandy and then distilled. Many of the ingredients seem very strange to us, but upon further research, many herbs grow wild locally, can be grown in an herb garden, or purchased from online herb stores.

Oh my god, Ollie. THAT?! Oh my god… This looks like death in a bucket! It sounds like that would give you the

plague

. We've been fermenting this for the last week. Chris: No you haven't... Josh: NO! Can you consume everything inside? What's that?! We need to strain it because it has a lot of herbs and stuff. We had to go to an online distributor... Buy 22 Non-Spicy Herbs and Spices 22 Herbs and Spices?! Chris: Oh... God... Days... Ollie: So... These are some of the... Chris: You bought A LOT! So we have lemon balm... dried sage... Chris: Mugwort?! That's not real?!

Josh: NO! Chris: That's not real! It is used to stimulate and relieve menstruation, aid digestion and liver function, expel parasites... Chris: Expel parasites... Ollie: And relax the nervous system! I'm not sure, Ollie. This hasn't given me much confidence. It's okay, but it's medicinal. I would say that your chances of contracting the plague are greatly reduced if we consume this. Oh my God. Give it a smell. OH MY GOD! I can smell it from here! Here, let me smell it. That is incredible! Ollie: Oh wow... Chris: You don't have to get that close. It smells like fertilizer.

Very good, we pour and strain. Be careful, Chris. This is incredible. Doesn't that seem a little strange to you? It feels like we're evoking something. He does it. A bit like a spell. Oh… In the name of Jesus, no. Well. Let's do it. I want to scoop it out. Why are you serving him?! Here we have my potion… Oh my Lord, have mercy. This is pretty awesome! Ollie: Thanks man! Josh: Water plague! I mean... You can't find buy it ANYWHERE... I'm very interested in how it will taste. Is this alcoholic? Yes. It is fermented in white wine.

Wow, this is an interesting drinking experience. Let's hope we don't all get sick. I feel like there's a good chance we won't get the plague, but we might get some other form of disease. Oh really. Alright. Health. Are you ready to relax your nervous system? We're going to have sagebrush everywhere... How are you guys so serious...?! That's... It's so bitter! It's... I... I don't know if I like it or hate it! It smells like herbs but tastes like strained vomit. Josh: Like acid! Chris: I don't know! What a coward! I just want to vomit… it's horrible!

Chris: I don't know! I feel like... Ollie: Yes! I could keep going! Chris: It's like... it's intriguing! Chris: I've never tried anything like this! Ollie: It is. It is. You know what? He tastes like freshly cut grass. Know? NO!! That's better than I thought it was going to be. Definitely. Our expectations were at rock bottom. Yeah. Mine was like, if I throw this on the camera, will it break it? Alright! If you have to choose between drinking that and getting the plague, I'd choose that any time. I think it's a nice thing. I've been taking big drinks.

If you take a big gulp of that, it hits you in the back of your throat. Chris: I don't know! Josh: One shot it. Do it. x2 I dare you x2. That's going to be harder to take down... That's going to be tough to deal with. No problem! It's definitely harder...definitely harder if I'm honest. He is right. That's much more difficult. You shivered... Your lip trembled! I'm covered in sweat. Wow! That's just... the sweat is literally gone... You know when you're about to throw up? Your body is gone, AAHHHH! Olli! What are you doing! Feel me!

I'm so wet! x2 Feel! Alright, those have been traditional British drinks. Did you enjoy it, Chris? Semi. It was fun. I mean Robinson... Let's drink more memories. I like that. Let's do it. Agreed. But the plague, less so. Fortunately we abolished the plague a while ago. Yes. It was good news that he's gone. Mainly so we don't have to drink this anymore. Bubble, bubble, boil and problems… No! In the name of Jesus. See you soon guys. See you later!