London Beer Flood

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1814 · Meux Brewery, London · Europe · Culture

A wave of porter bursts a brewery wall and floods a slum

London Beer Flood — Wilkinson, reprinted by Edward Walford, 1878 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

On 17 October 1814 a 22-foot vat of porter burst at a London brewery, knocking open another; between 580,000 and 1.5 million litres of beer poured out. The wave flattened the brewery's back wall and swept into the St Giles slum, killing eight people.

State: Kingdom of Great Britain, British Empire

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