A true story:
One such instance took place in 1814 in London. On October 17 of that year, a rupture in a brewery tank containing 3,500 barrels of beer caused a flood of fatal proportions in the London parish of St. Giles. The wave of beer swept victims off their feet, dashed them against walls, and buried them in debris. Two houses were edmolished in the sea of beer suddenly loosed upon the town, and nine people lost their lives in the flood of suds."