What was your first beer?

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  1. Seanem44

    Seanem44 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2014 Virginia

    That very first beer. When, where and what?

    I don't specifically remember my first beer. I do no I was likely a Sophomore/Junior in High School. Chances are it was either Beast Ice or Bud Dry. Beast was cheap and easy to get. My earliest recollections of it are drinking in the woods behind my friends house with a large group. Of course my memory escapes me, as this is over 16 years ago. Now my first drink ever, that I remember exactly. It was vodka at my friends house. Funny how that works.
     
  2. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    Other than a taste of my dad's, my first full beer was probably a Tennents/Stella circa 1996 (aged 14)
     
  3. Treyliff

    Treyliff Grand Pooh-Bah (5,025) Aug 10, 2010 West Virginia
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    Bud Light, camping with my two best friends.
     
  4. Providence

    Providence Pooh-Bah (2,652) Feb 24, 2010 Rhode Island
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    I had sips of Dad's Lowenbrau here and there when I was young, but the first full beer I actually remember being handed with the assumption that I would then consume, was Bud Light. It tasted like complete ass. Then for a period of time, it didn't taste like ass. Now, it tastes like ass again. Funny how that works.

    Salute!
     
  5. Iamjeff6

    Iamjeff6 Initiate (0) Sep 9, 2013 Virginia

    My grandpa used to put beer in my sippy cup for me as I was a child, it was always Labatt Blue. The first full beer I remember drinking was a 6 pack of Molson XXX, which caused me to pass out and not remember what happened that night.
     
  6. fox227

    fox227 Initiate (0) Nov 19, 2010 California

    I don't have a clue. I never had a taste for industrial light lagers so I tended to avoid them (even though I know I experienced them here and there.) It was because of this early bias against beer that I didn't discover Craft until I was 30.
     
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  7. APBT91

    APBT91 Initiate (0) Apr 12, 2013 North Carolina

    Is this like first sip or first full beer? Pretty sure my fist sips were from my pops Shiner Bock and the first full beer was a Rolling Rock I ganked from my Pops.
     
  8. Seanem44

    Seanem44 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2014 Virginia

    Funny indeed! It tasted like ass the first couple of drinks.... then I came to accept the taste of Bud Dry, Bud Light, Best Ice and the likes (including Mad Dog 40/40. Yuck) Then in college, Best grew out of favor and was disgusting. Yet Keystone, Bud Light and Coors light still tasted great.

    I thank God I didn't discover craft beer in college. I would have gone broke. I only drink Bud or Coors or any of those college beers if there are absolutely 0 alternatives in a social setting. Case in point the wedding I went to last month. Miller High Life. It was that or Bud Light. I try to avoid at all costs.
     
  9. TheBrewo

    TheBrewo Initiate (0) Nov 11, 2010 New York

    I believe Rolling Rock was the first ever, likely in some illegal scenario.
     
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  10. Seanem44

    Seanem44 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2014 Virginia

    First FULL beer. Not given by a family member.
     
  11. EveningCordial

    EveningCordial Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2014 New Jersey

    Dad gave me one at a very young age, but my first time drunk was playing quarters with bud light at a friends house way back in 7th grade.
     
  12. PMP_DUFF

    PMP_DUFF Initiate (0) Apr 4, 2014 Germany

    Red Dog....I was young, mid nineties... first full beer. I dont think it is made anymore. Thats the one I remember, in the woods right by the Beekman Recreation Center. Ha.
     
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  13. Andrew041180

    Andrew041180 Initiate (0) Mar 15, 2013 Massachusetts

    Freshman year in college - within the first week or two. Some guy in my dorm gave me a Bud Dry (I think. It was a Bud Something, but not Bud Light) and it took me a good long while to choke it down.
     
  14. Mojo

    Mojo Initiate (0) Jul 21, 2012 Alabama
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    When I was in high school a neighbor kid had bought some beer off one of the older guys in the neighborhood. It was the old Busch Bavarian. I took a sip and immediately spit it out. I can remember that horrible metallic taste and uncomfortable fizziness. Putrid beyond measure. An abomination of a beverage.

    A year or so later I started college and my roommate had a six pack of Miller High Life in the classic clear twelve ounce bottles. (Back then the drinking age was still 18 for beer and wine). He offered me one and remembering my horrible experience with the Busch initially turned it down. After some prodding I finally accepted and found that it was pretty good and refreshing. It's often been said that beer is an acquired taste. Well I acquired a taste for it right then and there.

    I went through the gamut of available beers in a short time. Strohs, Schlitz, Budweiser, Tuborg Gold, Pabst, Michelob, Heineken, you name it. (Not Coors. It was not yet available on the east coast and having been immortalized by the classic film "Smokey and the Bandit" was considered the holy grail of beers. Imagine that!!) But for those years it was hard to beat the ice cold smooth drinkability of Miller High Life.

    I haven't had one in years. Don't know if I will ever go there again. So maybe it would be best just to let it remain there as a first love, a special place in the heart, but not somewhere you want to go again.
     
  15. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    Schaefer. Still have nightmares of that first one. My thought at the time was, "Noooo, people actually drink this crap?"
     
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  16. ParkbrauFan

    ParkbrauFan Pundit (829) Feb 8, 2014 Iowa

    At 13 my father took me and my 2 uncles to a German bar in my old neighborhood in Germany where I grew up.
    We left Germany when I was 7 but the bar owner recognized me. He served me my first beer and said you're a man
    now. It was a double bock he brewed and he served me 4 more. My uncles gave me over powered fruit schnapps and it was the first time I got drunk in front of my dad. Very memorable and a great experience.
     
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  17. Redneckwine

    Redneckwine Initiate (0) Dec 3, 2013 Washington

    Many, many illicit Coors Lights starting my freshman year of high school (age 15). Procured...God knows how from friends, consumed at lame house parties. Ah, the glory days.
     
  18. Aaron58

    Aaron58 Zealot (641) Dec 16, 2007 Massachusetts

    Bud light bought by a girls aunt for a bunch of us at her birthday party. I think I was 16. Definitely didnt finish it. Tasted awful, but much like above, It didnt taste as awful a year later when I started actually drinking and going to parties and such.
     
  19. afi4lifer

    afi4lifer Zealot (744) Jan 20, 2011 Massachusetts
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    Sam Adams Boston Lager that my buddies brother bought for us that we drank in a station wagon at a bowling alley before going in. I thought it was the most bitter thing in the history of the universe - truly an awful experience.
     
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  20. dutesanch

    dutesanch Initiate (0) Apr 22, 2014 California

    Tall can of Bud Ice.
     
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