What was your 1st imported beer?

Don't remember. It would have been in the early 80s. Probably either European or Canadian. My guess would be Canadian because Moosehead and Molson were pretty popular at that time.

Frankly, I didn't really drink imports until after college after going to Europe. Before that, it was cheap beer (Schlitz Talls, Mickey's, MGB, Bud).

 

Pretty sure my 1st was Guinness, maybe Newcastle in college.

 

Grolsch or Guinness, not sure which.

 

Germany/Europe

 

Lowenbrau and Heineken (Germany, The Netherlands) back in the 60's. Heineken was way better than most available US brews, but Lowenbrau was damned good, still is.

 

Moosehead, baby!

 

Molson Golden.

 

Dinklelocker (spelling is probably wrong) "Drink a Dink" was their slogan. I was in high school and worked after school in a German butcher shop, the owner knew the importer and got that plus a German brandy by the case. He said, "If you work like a man you can drink like a man." So on Saturday's after the shop closed and everything was in order we would bend our elbows.

 

Newcastle back in HS

 

It was either St. Pauli Girl or New Castle. Those were the fancy beers for me in college.

 

My first one was a Molson Golden. I was 14 or 15 and this was the 70's. I shunned the big Amercan beers from the get go.

 

Molson Golden, Molson Ice, Molson Canadian? One of those. Can't remember which one.

 

Fuller's London Pride

 

Dos Equis, which I had when I was in Rosarito, Mexico. Does that count as being imported in this thread?

 

Heineken, completely underwhelmed me went back to Bud. A year of two later I got into Canadian beers & they put me on the right path. Still don't like Heineken, even underwhelmed me in Amsterdam.

 

Newcastle I think.

 

Lowenbrau. That was the high end shit in the 70's.

Wait, does that French import Goebbels count?

 

Guinness hated it at first but will order at a bar once in a blue moon

 

Dos Equis