Bernie Brewer
Grouchy Old Fart
I used to get sips from my parents' beers all the time, as long ago as I can remember. I was prolly 3 or so, and the beer was most likely Schlitz. and i still like Schlitz........
My first taste was either Hamm's or Schlitz from the old man when I was 7 or 8 - my first real beer experience (puking my brains out) was when I was 12 or so on a camping trip with my buddy's family - three of us scrounged about a dozen Sterling's Little Kings and drank them all and laughed until it caught up with us - we all fed the fish for quite a while!!
True story, the owner of Hamm's beer called my parents one day out of the blue years ago, seems we're related. My mom's family name is Hamm and she's from Germany and he was doing genealogy and ran across us and gave us a call. He basically, from what I can remember (I was a kid, 8 or 10 I guess) he basically compared his notes on her family with her and had her fill in some blanks or he mighta told her some stuff SHE didn't know. Think he was like a 5th cousin or something not close enough to rate even free beer I guess.
I haven't seen a Hamm's beer in ages I just assumed they went outta business. Might wikipedia it haven't thought about that in ages and ages.
My first taste would be off my dad's can of Oly... while he was driving. Ahhh the good ol' days when you could pick up a "road beer".
My first solo beer was when I was about 14 or 15. I used to buck bales for a local farmer every August and it was decided that "If you can work like men, you should be able to have a beer at the end of the day". That beer was a can of Schmidt. What we called "animal beer" because it had pictures of elk and pheasants and salmon on the can.
Both were cheap crap pissy beers but it's what everyone drank. When I got older, I decided I was too good for that stuff and only drank GOOD beer. Like... Lowenbrau... ya know.... the GOOD STUFF!
First beer to touch my tongue was when I was like 8-10 and it was probably busch that my grandpa had me try at my birthday party. My reaction was obviously of repulse and wonder of how they can drink that. My view has not changed.
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