What was your first ever beer experience?

[harleybug88]

Do you remember?

 

[Hammy71]

Bud dry in a can..... Surprising, I actually learned to like beer after that experience...

LOL

 

[1977Brewer]

Fallstaff in pop top cans. Probably started stealing sips at 3 or 4. I've always loved beer.

 

[flars]

About age 8 or 9, a sip of beer from my Dad's mug at Uncle Wally's saloon. No idea what it was that was on tap. Could have been home brew.

 

[toolboxales]

Pbr in a keg. I drank other things for a long time then tried a Newcastle then a Guinness.

 

[Mongrel]

My friend's uncle's birthday party when I was 7. Playing the Atari was really tough after two glasses of Paceña followed by some champagne.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Stealing whatever beer my dad had around. Don't remember what, couldn't give a toss at the time, just that it was alcohol.

 

[Zuljin]

It was a few years ago, when I brewed the perfect beer.

 

[Qhrumphf]

It was a few years ago, when I brewed the perfect beer.

Can you please share the recipe, and NOT delete the thread?

 

[Alpotun]

Summer of 1975. Parents out of town, me and my best bud Curtis came up with a couple of sixers in cans, watching tv at my house. We were miserable but determined to drink it all.

 

[Homercidal]

4 yo got a sip from my grandpa at their cottage on a lake. I *think* it was PBR. IIRC both grandpas drank PBR.

I can still hear my grandma yelling at him, "Gerry don't you give those kids beer!"

As I recall I didn't mind the taste. My sister thought it was awful. It was many years before I got a real drink of beer. I was probably 14.

 

[drainbamage]

My dad was sitting out on the patio drinking an Old Milwaukee Light. He offered me a sip. I made a face. Everyone laughed. Good times.

 

[Hamaki]

My dad and a couple of other guys had just finished re-roofing the town's volunteer firehouse and were sitting on the grass under a shade tree drinking Oly. I was about 4 or 5 and my dad gave me a taste. I must have made a face because I remember the guys laughing. I don't remember trying beer again till I was probably 15.

 

[feinbera]

Sipping dad's skunky, long-way-'round-the-horn late-'80s Heineken; extinguished any curiosity I had about the stuff as anything other than a means to intoxication, and all those red solo cups of Natty Ice or the Beast didn't do much to rekindle it. Wasn't until I turned 21 and could go hang with my friends at the pub and order my very own pint (in a pint glass! made of glass!) of Guinness or Sammy's (I know, I know... forgive me, I was young and naive) that I realized beer was something that could be enjoyed, even savored, and not just poured down the throat as quickly as possible.

 

[JonM]

Put that question to anyone in Milwaukee, and I bet the words "County Stadium" is in the response. In my case, Dad let me have a sip at County Stadium.

ETA: I also remember hanging out under the bleachers at the softball park with my brother making loooong chains of the old pull tabs - the only ones that pulled all the way off.

 

[SomersetRedstreak]

When I was about five, I remember sitting with my family watching my Uncle play cricket on a Sunday afternoon. I can recall gripping a dimpled pint mug of some sound English bitter & having first a sip and then a good gulp. I remember the smell and bitterness of the hops vividly. I was hooked for life!

 

[Devon]

I had my first beer, a piss-warm Clancy's Amber Ale, at 14. My mother of all people gave it to me, seemingly on a whim. It was godawful.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I remember getting a taste of my uncle's beer a few times when I was 5 or 6. 1st time I actually drank a whole beer I was about 12 or 13, I think it was Pabst. A buddy swiped a couple cans from his dad's beer fridge in the garage & we drank them while fishing.
Regards, GF.

 

[jspain3]

First sip was from my dad's Miller Lite (?) when I was 4. Tasted terrible.

The next was a Bud Light as a 19 year. Also terrible. I poured it out when no one was looking. After that I stuck with bourbon and coke for most of college until I discovered SweetWater 420. It's been all downhill (uphill?) since.

 

[slym2none]

I stole a pony can of Schlitz (not the malt liquor, this was Schlitz when they made beer) out of a cooler at a family get-together at a crab-boil when I was, I think, 8 years old, and chugged it down. It was so gross, even ice cold, I am surprised I ever tried this beverage again.

I am glad I did!!!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

1978. my dad was drinking a bunch of beers (probably Falstaff) after being on the road for a while. then he railed my mom. 9 months later I was born.

 

[harleybug88]

1978. my dad was drinking a bunch of beers (probably Falstaff) after being on the road for a while. then he railed my mom. 9 months later I was born.

I was also drinking a bunch of beers in 1978 ... ipe:

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I was also drinking a bunch of beers in 1978 ... ipe:

you could be my dad. I don't know that.

 

[harleybug88]

you could be my dad. I don't know that.

I didn't drink Falstaff back then though.
I only had Miller/Stroh's babies.

 

[ChelisHubby]

Schlitz back in 72 maybe!

 

[TheMadKing]

1998, A half glass of Red hook ESB when I was 12. I loved it and never stopped!

 

[Quaker]

Christmas break in third grade, my Dad got 2 beers while at Busch Gardens in Florida. He let my sister and I have a sip. My sister ran for a watering fountain to spit it out and wash it away. I recall wanting to show her up and had a second sip, but it tasted like crap to me. Those are the only beers I ever saw my dad drink. Out of respect of my mom who's father was a true alcoholic, he didn't drink alcohol.

I never tasted a beer again until Freshman year of college.

 

[banesong]

1998, A half glass of Red hook ESB when I was 12. I loved it and never stopped!

You sir, are young. And yes, I am old!

Walking around the city fair, my father gave me a taste of his Miller Light out of a plastic glass. Can't do that today!

 

[m00ps]

I took a sip of miller light that my dad was drinking when I was 6. Spat it out on the carpet and he laughed

 

[kh54s10]

Other than probably a sip of my dad's beer (I don't remember?) I waited until college. It was probably the first night there. Most likely cheap BMC, Schlitz or Schaefer... And most likely a pretty good hangover the next morning......

 

[chisena]

High Life

 

[Natdavis777]

Probably early to mid 90s... Stealing cans of Miller Lite and Red Dog from the fridge in the garage or my grandpas house.

 

[cjbalough]

Late 70s/ early 80s, I used to sip the foam from my dad's beers - usually Genny Cream or Millers. First intoxication I was 5 or 6 - the ring bearer in a wedding & had a few glasses of champagne.....

 

[ErikRobers]

My first beer experience was Milwaukee's Best.
My first good beer experience was Sam Adams Boston Lager, which tasted so different from Coors and Bud I initially didn't like it. Took me three days to finish the six-pack, but after day 3 I could never go back to the likes of Coors and Bud again.
My first craft beer experience, a life changer, was Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA, and Arrogant Bastard. Because of those every beer must be full and flavorful now.

 

[edues]

8 years old. My grandfather an I took a ride to look at a horse trailer for sale. On the way home we stopped at a tavern..bar...pub, wherever you're from you get the idea. He asked me if I wanted something to drink. I said a soda, he replied you don't have to drink that piss water. And he got me whatever he's was drinking on tap. Yup after that I liked going out with grandpa. No ice cream shop for us!

 

[chisena]

Dad's High Life + Dad's Kent III Ultra-Lights

 

[Nubiwan]

I was 13 my dad was painting the house. I was helping out. He gave me one of these Labatt 50. In a glass. It was quite bitter. It took me half a day to finish it. Some month later i progressed to buying beer with a buddy before a school dance. We shard a Molson Export 6 pack. We pounded them down pretty quick on the bench of an outdoor hockey rink. It was cold. I got pretty happy on my 3 beer, and had my first hangover the next day.

 

[CKuhns]

Dad bought Grain Belt and Hamms when he felt like splurging. Had a bit of both for the first few tastes on 1968.

 

[grampamark]

I’m old. I have to go to the “What Are You Drinking Now” thread to remember my last beer experience.

 

[bracconiere]

my FIRST beer experience? my 'friends' all sharing a can, and me being the loser they wouldn't share with....

i can laugh about it now...i think one turned into a homeless heroin addict, another a tweaker...and i just drink homemade beer!