Who remembers the first beer they had??

[thepartsmancometh]

homebrew Honey Wheat! my dad thought that since I always helped him with the grunt labor when brewing that I should see the end result. I think I was 9-10 maybe?

 

[BlueSunshine]

I had a few sips of beer as a kid and hated them, but the first full beer I drank was Rolling Rock in college. It was pretty bad. To this day I get an upset stomach from drinking Rolling Rock.

It almost turned me off to beer completely, then I discovered the 6 pack shop....

 

[petep1980]

God it had to be some kind of Genny from the old man's fridge.

 

[sp1365]

I didnt drink till 18. My first one was a MGD at my friends High School Graduation party. After that I pretty much didnt drink till my second semester of college drinking either Natty Light or Milwaukee's Best Light. Definitely some of the worst stuff ever, I cant stand the smell of it.

 

[IrregularPulse]

WOW..first beer. it was coors,and I was 2nd or 3rd grade. I took it out of my dads fridge in the shop, took one drink and put it back. Its funny that he never said anything about finding a open beer with one small drink missing.

Probably laughed his ass off and let it go realizing you weren't likely to do it again.

 

[Weezknight]

Growing up my friend's Dad was a firefighter and they always drank some form of Michelob (regular or light). I had plenty of sips of those, but I never drank a full beer, on my own, until I went to college.

The first there was Busch. God it was awful. Sometimes I wonder how I had the strength to continue drinking beer!

 

[david_42]

I was about 8. It was a hot, muggy Illinois summer day. Tom's dad thought it would be funny to give us some warm beer. Didn't touch another until I went to college.

 

[iamfoamy]

Of course I can't remember. That was about 40,000 beers ago.

 

[mattmcl]

I remember having sips of my dad's PBR when I was real young. Then at about 10 my buddy and I used to take a tiny bit from each bottle in his parent's liquor cabinet and pour it into our bike water bottles, then ride around getting hammered. We always tended toward the hard stuff in the beginning, just because it was easier to steal.

The first beer I remember really drinking and getting into was Guinness XXX. Back in those days, it was the most exotic beer on the shelves, right next to Heineken and Beck's. It's still my absolute favorite commercial beer.

 

[carp]

I had a lot of sips from a young age, but first full beer (and buzz :cross was on a canoe trip with my Dad and his friend, I was probably about 11 yrs. I thought the buzz was interesting, but it did not ignite that passion that was to develop later and continue to this day.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

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........

 

[scrambledegg81]

First full beer was a Moosehead Lager after a 20-something mile hike around Twin Lakes, CA with my dad...think I was 16-ish.


First "legal" brew purchase was at 12 midnight on my 21st birthday at a Foods 4 Less...I basically waited with my roommates with a case of Sierra Nevada PA in hand, waiting for midnight to roll around.

 

[lpdb185]

old milwaukee's best light!!!! stole it from my dad's shop with a friend and then drank it hot in the field behind the house. i was about 12 maybe.

 

[JarrodH]

First beer - Red Elephant in the big can bought it at a 7-11 that didnt care we were underage.

 

[l1ranger]

plenty of sips throughout the years
it was all about the same time, but the first full, my own beer, was either a natty light or an MGD.

the beer that did me in was a Bells Two Hearted Ale. the girlfriend got me a sixer b/c it had fish on the label. Its all been emptying my wallet since then

I still get cravings for BMC from time to time. Sometimes it just hits the spot, kinda like water - and when I gotta do it, I prefer schlitz. I guess that aint part of the thread, but somebody mentioned schlitz above and it made me think of it.

 

[jpb5151]

First here was Bud Lite. I remember being struck with how badly it tasted, but just kept sipping it until I got used to it. You'll never believe this, but that one Bud Lite got me buzzed for the rest of the afternoon.

 

[JohnnyO]

First sip was a swig of a Bud can that was on my parents' counter when I was 4 or 5. I don't remember it, but apparently my parents saw this as something to take a picture of.

First time drinking a full beer was at 13 or 14 and it was 4-5 Meister Braus in the woods near my parents' house where everyone would hang out.

I have convinced myself to this day that I had 4-5 beers, but being the scrawny kid that I was, that's just not possible. Probably 2 beers.

 

[cclloyd]

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!!

 

[WIP]

5 years old my dad made me take a drink of a Heidelberg. I thought I hated beer until I was 21 and dove into microbrews.

 

[DoctorHops]

Pabst Blue Ribbon, the summer of 68. I was 18. It was luke warm, a common theme among young drinkers I see. We graduated to Heilman's Special Export shortly thereafter. I think it counts as Beer, I grew up in South Dakota and it was 3.2 beer, which was legal for 19 year olds to drink then. Not much other than Hamms, Grain Belt, Falstaff, and Schmidt to drink for regional brews, and Bud, Schlitz, PBR, and Miller nationally to drink in those days. That was even before light beer. Coors was not available in SD or very widely at all in those days, and was spoken of in hushed reverent tones. A friend boguht a case back from a ski trip to Colorado. and we gathered like pilgrims to a holy shrine to taste it. Boy was I disappointed. It tasted like, well Rocky Mountain Spring Water. I eventually graduated to Strohs in the 70s, a decent beer before Schlitz bought and destroyed it. And it spells Shorts backwards for those who appreciate palindromes. Olympia was the beer that Coors was meant to be, but it got destroyed by getting too big too fast as well. In graduate school my roommate and I drank Henley's (sp?) because it was cheap;, my roommate's friend worked at a liquor store and could get it for $3 a case. It tasted OK. Carling Black Label was pretty good in the 70s and so was Einbock. My wife taught at the University of Montana for a couple of years and we drank Lucky Lager. 11 Oz bottles and a rhebus under every bottle cap. The 80s ushered a whole new genre of beer, good beer compared to what we had previously anyway and Henry Weinhard's was a favorite for a long time. I learned about Anchor Steam in the 80s and living in LA brought ethnic beer like Tsing Tao, DOS XX, and ***** Modelo to my taste buds. Trader Joes often sold San Miguel nearing its expiration date cheaply and I drank a lot of that as well as Bueno Noche, which Trader Joe closed out cheaply in January and February. The late 80s and early 90s brought an explosion of good beers on the scene and I haven't looked back until now.

 

[Islandboy85]

It was a Polar beer brewed the next island over. I was fifteen. It was new years and my folks had gone to bed but I was still up outside with my neighbor and his stoner dad who, incidentally, gave me my first beer.http://www.realbeer.com/nmvbp/rev_brew.htm

 

[Grimster]

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.

 

[philrose]

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.

saw it at whole foods yesterday.

 

[nebben]

I was 6 or 8, and was fishing on some lake in Alaska when we lived up there. It was a cool summer day, and was raining off and on. I don't remember seeing anyone else at this lake that was fishing this day. I remember this was also the first time I had caught a fish too.

Anyway, my brother, dad and I came back to the campsite and I posed for a picture to celebrate. What was probably an 8" or 9" trout in one hand and a Rainier beer in the other. I remember that I didn't like the beer at all at the time, and the fish didn't have much meat at all.

 

[gtpro]

First full one. . . Budweiser, 3 cans of that and 2 nips of lemon Bacardi. . .I was on cloud nine.

 

[brewmonk]

I was about 7. my dad traded me a sip of his black label beer for a bite of my icecream.

 

[arch1tect]

My grandpa would let me take a sip here and there. Thought it was the disgusting.

 

[Hemsworth]

I was 8 years old and my brother gave me a Molson Brador. It was a 6.2% and I got drunk off of it. Then he taught me how to play poker and took all of my allowance. By the time I was 12 I was a seasoned drinker and used to drink EVERYONE under the table! Even the "older" crowd (16-18). Looking back...he should be locked up for what he did to me!

 

[DansBrew]

Genesee Cream Ale. I was maybe 6 and took a long hard swig off a can, and never drank another sip of beer until I bought my first case of beer at age 17. That was yuengling lager, before it got over priced. i think i paid 15 or 17 bucks for the case of 24 longnecks.

 

[JefeTheVol]

My first beer was at a pub in Northern Ireland when I was 14...Its sad but I have no idea what it was...I do know that it was NOT Guinness...What a tragedy.