What was your 1st imported beer?

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  1. 19etz55

    19etz55 Savant (1,236) Aug 12, 2007 New Jersey
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    My 1st import was also my 1st beer at age 14.
    It was Carling's Black Label (Canada) given to me by my Grandfather.
    My 1st import I bought at legal age (18 in 1974) was either
    Moosehead or Molson, also from North of the border, Canada, Eh.

    Where was your 1st imported beer from?
     
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  2. QuakeAttack

    QuakeAttack Pooh-Bah (2,353) Mar 19, 2012 California
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    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).
     
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  3. Texsuds

    Texsuds Zealot (737) Jan 22, 2013 Texas

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

    JuicesFlowing Initiate (0) Jul 5, 2009 Kansas

    Grolsch or Guinness, not sure which.
     
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  5. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    Germany/Europe
     
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  6. rgordon

    rgordon Pooh-Bah (2,701) Apr 26, 2012 North Carolina
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    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.
     
  7. DelMontiac

    DelMontiac Initiate (0) Oct 22, 2010 Oklahoma

    Moosehead, baby!
     
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  8. Retroman40

    Retroman40 Savant (1,098) Dec 7, 2013 Florida

    Molson Golden.
     
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  9. riverlen

    riverlen Pundit (852) Sep 16, 2009 Illinois

    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.
     
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  10. BrewSTL

    BrewSTL Pundit (881) Mar 14, 2013 Missouri

    Newcastle back in HS
     
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  11. Hoptometrist

    Hoptometrist Pooh-Bah (1,635) Mar 19, 2011 Ohio
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    It was either St. Pauli Girl or New Castle. Those were the fancy beers for me in college.
     
  12. SFNC

    SFNC Savant (1,211) Apr 7, 2013 North Carolina

    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.
     
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  13. timotao

    timotao Pundit (984) Sep 16, 2013 New York
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    Molson Golden, Molson Ice, Molson Canadian? One of those. Can't remember which one.
     
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  14. Dreizhen

    Dreizhen Initiate (0) Jun 6, 2013 District of Columbia

    Fuller's London Pride
     
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  15. DoubleJ

    DoubleJ Grand Pooh-Bah (4,516) Oct 13, 2007 Wisconsin
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    Dos Equis, which I had when I was in Rosarito, Mexico. Does that count as being imported in this thread?
     
  16. russpowell

    russpowell Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,292) May 24, 2005 Arkansas
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    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.
     
  17. BoomKentucky

    BoomKentucky Zealot (675) Mar 22, 2013 Kentucky

    Newcastle I think.
     
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  18. Scipio3

    Scipio3 Zealot (562) Mar 11, 2014 Ohio

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

    Wait, does that French import Goebbels count?
     
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  19. Grodd87

    Grodd87 Initiate (0) Jul 30, 2014 Pennsylvania

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

    BobbyDigitali Initiate (0) May 26, 2014 California

    Dos Equis
     
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