What was the first beer you had?

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  1. cwm51662

    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Be worth watered-down beer to watch Seaver...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    The Hamms I tried wasn't much better cold...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Texas Pride... haven't heard that name in a while...
     
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    lordofthewiens Grand Pooh-Bah (5,891) Sep 17, 2005 New Mexico
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    A couple sips of my father's Ballantine when I was 6 or 7 years old.
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    I love that you listed all the stages! My teen beer might well have been a Wiedeman... Legal was Bud, I beilieve, in a big glass that held 3 cans (you drank for free if you drank it all before it got too warm and flat)... first non-macro, you'd think I'd know right off the top... Probably a witbier of some sort, possibly Hoegarden..
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Kids these days have it made...:wink:
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Because of the way our ages fell, I hung with my nephew a lot. His dad for years was an OM fan (from which we reaped the benefits). After a time though, he went cheaper and hung on Milwaukee's Best.
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    St Pauli Girl is pretty good. Especially if you drink enough to bring the girl on the label to life...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    For a long time, Marvel comics used to bring up Iron City all the time in their books. One time it was a alien bartender on another planet that called it the best...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Wow, Sterling. You know you're from Indiana when...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    That woulda done it, lol!
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Rolling Rock was the "cheap club beer" around here during my second childhood...
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    God, the old generic "BEER". Nobody I knew ever got that desperate...
     
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  14. Belial

    Belial Devotee (391) Aug 9, 2005 Illinois

    i was probably 5-7 years old and was playing basketball in the driveway with my dad and his best friend (who died as a result of alcoholism) when my dad went inside for a minute this guy gave me some old style. i thought it was awful. later we all went inside and my mom was making brownies and the guy said HOLY SHIT BROWNIES and my mom got mad at him for swearing in front of the kids. good times
     
  15. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,677) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    It was Budweiser. My grandfather and I had been clearing some brush near the lake and we got thirsty. He went into the house and came out with a Bud and two juice glasses. I was about 7, late 50s, and the beer was good, as I recall. The first beer with a friend was at about 13. We drank that Falstaff on the balcony outside his room. We did it more than once after that.
     
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    cwm51662 Pundit (904) Apr 23, 2011 Indiana
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    Grandfathers seem to be just as popular as dads in these stories...
     
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    dcotom Grand Pooh-Bah (5,503) Aug 4, 2014 Iowa
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    Had to be Stroh's. My buddies and I knew a couple of places back in the day where they'd sell anything to underaged idiots. When I turned 18 and started buying legally, I had to take an ABV cut from 6% to 3.2%. Oh, the irony. :slight_frown:

     
  18. WV_Charles_Homebrew

    WV_Charles_Homebrew Initiate (0) May 17, 2017 West Virginia

    We called it the Beast as well, and that was my go-to during my college-swilling days. It was not my first beer, however. My dad was a Stroh's man and he gave me my first Stroh's when I was probably 5 or 6. Just one, though. His philosophy was that I should "Learn to drink responsibly at an early age." I still remember those dark blue cans which were quite distinctive at the time. As far as drinking responsibly, I do so now, but when I was younger, not so much! So maybe it worked, in the long run?
     
  19. foamfinger

    foamfinger Initiate (0) Feb 5, 2012 Michigan

    As a kid, I'd walk with my old man to the corner store on Friday evenings to buy a 40 oz of Stroh's beer. I'd get a sip if I fetched it from the fridge for him later.
     
  20. ChicagoJ

    ChicagoJ Grand Pooh-Bah (4,073) Feb 2, 2015 Illinois
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    Yes, this looks more accurate, the can. I liked beer, but vodka and whiskey were stronger, so that was where I went after I gave up weed and cigarettes in the 8th / 9th grade.

    Still drank Guinness as a back to whiskey rocks/neat til craft beer appeared.

    Well before Harry Caray became a “Bud Man” he was a Falstaff Man with the greatest team, The Chicago White Sox, which Bill Veeck saved in 1975.

    Indeed. His father cut him off after two sips, he would have tried to finish the bottle. Smart kid!
     
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