London Beer Flood
The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co’s Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. Between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons of beer were released in total. Eight people were killed, five of them mourners at the wake being held by an...