Did you actually like your first beer?

High school, all my buddies were slamming keystone, to this day just thinking about it gives me that nasty dry taste in my mouth that you get the morning after. Luckily when I turned 21 the local brewery was two blocks away from my place and I soon became acquainted with craft.

 

I was 10 or 11 ? I took one of my Dad's BLATZ and my buddy took one of his Dad's COORS. We put them in book bags and went down to a local park. We each drank our beer and tried the others. I thought is was very harsh and much harder to drink as the beer warmed in my hand over time. FYI, BLATZ = GROSS!!

 

I was in the eighth grade and a couple of friends got their hands on an eight pack of Schoenling Little Kings cream ale. I thought it was terrible. It came in 7 oz. bottles and it was all I could do to finish one bottle. Having Little Kings was a big deal for us "accomplished" beer drinkers, because this was a green cap, 6% beer, not a red cap, 3.2% beer. Man, I am really dating myself, with this post.

 

my first was probably rolling rock or something from my dad. Not a fan.

 

Well in the early 80s as a teenager, the first time I got drunk was on Budweiser when they came in those short stubby 12oz bottles. I did not really like it at first, but after two or three it wasn't so bad. I drank five and was wasted...puked my guts out at my friends house. I had tried sips of beer before that as a kid from my dad's beer, I guess he wanted to see what kinda face I would make, I doubt that I liked it though.

 

My first full beer? As in not just a sip, but a full can/bottle all my own? It was Bud Light and it fucking sucked. Then came a time when I didn't mind drinking dozens of them in an evening. Now, we're back to the beginning, it tastes like total ass again. Such is the circle of life.

 

Warm MGD (!) stashed in the bushes on the golf course. Tasted like A$$!!!

 

My first beer was a swig of my uncle's Michelob at around the age of 6. Can't say as I enjoyed it.

 

Mickey's wide mouths. as a toddler. Stolen from adults. Apparently toddlers love the taste of sweet corn and despair.

 

I remember my first taste of beer. My dad let me take a sip of his Utica Club (now that's old school) from his glass. I'm guessing it was around 1966, and I was 7 or 8 years old. We did that on numerous subsequent occasions. I didn't do back flips or anything, but I remember thinking "Hmmm...not bad".

 

For my actual first beer (not sips growing up), it was Sam Adams Boston Lager when I was around 19 or so. I hated it and drainpoured it after like 2 sips. I hated beer all throughout the rest of college too. How things have changed.

 

first full beer i consumed was a new glarus imperial saison, loved it, and was sloshed. Before that i only had consumed radlers in germany.

 

My first beer was probably New Glarus Spotted Cow, which is so ubiquitous in Milwaukee. I loved it and I still enjoy it if I'm in the mood for something super sessionable.

 

My Dad was (and to some extent still is) a Bud man... and damn I don't like that beer, whether it was sips as a kid or today. Though I do have good memories of him splashing some on steak as it was cooking, so maybe Bud is best when used to quench flare-ups. Thank God the group of friends I hooked up with in college were into craft on almost the leading edge of the good beer movement--early 90's, when Sam & Pete's Wicked were still actual competitors.

 

Does anyone really like beer at 9 years old?

 

hell no.

we were young and 'trying to like beer so college would be easier'

so yea, um...

 

I tried a bunch of different beers at the Minnesota State Fair that hooked me on craft beer. The first beer that I had joining this site was 400 Pound Monkey. If I had it again now I probably would think it tasted like shit.

 

A Bud tallboy with my buddies cutting school at about 14. I thought it was awful but we all finished them. From there it was on to Mickey's wide mouth and Heffenreffers! Of course that was about 30 years ago so this poll is nonsense to me.

 

Mine was a Budweiser, and I didn't necessarily like it, but didn't hate it, either. I was about 12 and more into brandy at that age, ha ha.

 

It was what passed for Heineken in Britain in about 1990. I was a child and I thought it was bitter and horrible. Can't go back and see what I think of it now as that beer is no longer brewed.