Your first beer per style.

Lager - Hamms
English Pale Ale - Bass
Pilsner - Pilsner Urquell
American IPA - Two Hearted
Porter - Guinness
Amber - Bells Amber
Sour - Lolita
Trappist - Chimay

My first beer was when I was a kid, my mother gave me a several ounce pour of Hamms. Took a couple of sips and gave it back to her. I used to love those Hamms Beers commercials on TV with the Hamms Bear.

 

Pale Ale- SNPA
IPA- Redhook Long Hammer
DIPA- NB Rampant
Saison- Equinox Saison
Porter- Santa Fe State Pen Porter
Pils- Oskar Blues Mama's Lil Yella Pils
Sour- NB Erick's Ale
Amber- Redhook ESB
Stout- Guinness Extra Stout

 

Hmm, can't think of all of them because I started my drinking days with samples, but I'll do my best.

Ale: Coopersmith's Watermelon Ale
Sour: La Folie
Stout: Abbey or Breakfast Stout
Lager: 1554
IPA: Ranger

I toured Coopersmith's and New Belgium the second day I drank (the first was a Bud Light). I can't recall exactly what they had on that tour, but I think I got 'em posted.

 

You must have been here in Fort Collins!

 

First craft beer boulevard unfiltered wheat
Saison tank 7
Pale ale Sierra Nevada, second was pseudosue
Ipa millstream Iowa pale ale
Porter empyrean dark side vanilla porter
Stout Murphy's
Sour? New glarus fruits

 

from what I remember...

lager - Dortmunder Gold
pale ale - Burning River
IPA - Torpedo
sour - Rodenbach Grand Cru
imperial stout - Yeti
DIPA - 90 minute
fruit beer - Bumbleberry
barleywine - Bigfoot

 

Truth be told, I can't remember what my first of any particular style was - been a while.
I can remember the ones that turned me on, though. I though IPAs were OK, for instance, until I had Stone's Ruination. Turned into a total hophead for a long time. Wasn't really into Belgian styles until Duvel and St Bernardus Tripel.
Sours I wasn't into until Abbay de Bon Chien at a fest (EBF, if I remember right..)

 

1st beer Carling's Black Label @ age 14 (Thanks Grandpa) & ( 1st Lager )
Ballantine Ale (1st Ale )
PBR ( Best BMC/PBR ) to this day
Piels $1.69/6pk in 1976
Reingold Extra Dry ( VERY dry! )
Schaefer ( Taste like Hudson River water )
Schlitz
Schmidts
Rolling Rock ( 1st Pale Ale )
Bud
Michelob (premium beer at the time)
Miller High Life
Miller Lite ( 1st Light Beer )
MGD
Molson Golden ( preferred beer after skiing )
Moosehead ( skunky but ok )
Coors
Genesse Cream Ale
Falstaff
Fosters ( 1st bomber )
Mickey's (Big Mouth)
Utica Club
*** 1st craft beer Anchor Steam (Thanks Mr. Maytag)
Pete's WickedaLE
Dock Street
Devil Mountain 5 Malt Ale
Guiness ( 1ST stout )

too be cont...........................................

 

I'd like to see craft beer in this format but with gigantic pry off caps instead of the twisties

 

Lager - Boston Lager
IPA - Torpedo Extra IPA
Porter - Black Butte Porter
Stout - SA Cream Stout
Amber - Alaskan Amber
Bock - Wasatch Dopplebock
Pale Ale - SN Pale Ale

 

AAL - Molson Canadian
Pilsner - Pilsner Urquell
BSDA - Maudite
Tripel - La Fin Du Monde
IPA - Le Corne Du Diablo
Wit - Hoegaarden/Blanche du Chambly
Stout - Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout
Double IPA - Twice as Mad Tom
Quad - La Trappe
Dubbel - Chimay Red
BSPA - Duvel
Flanders Red - Cuvee des Jacobins

 

Most of my firsts were brewed by Stone. Which is why I'll always be a fanboy at heart lol.

IPA- Stone
IIPA- Ruination
Stout- Stone Imperial Russian Stout (a rather powerful head first into dark beers lol)
Strong Ale- Arrogant Bastard
Sour- RR Supplication
Barleywine- Old Guardian
Brown- Newcastle

 

Oh man I wish I could remember these things.

All I remember was my first Wit being Hoegaarden and my first Scotch Ale being Dirty Bastard. I remember enjoying the wit and nearly vomiting up the scotch ale.

However had I not tried those, I wouldn't be doing this today. So it worked out.

 

Can't believe people remember their first beer in particular styles from over 20 years ago. For me, they were mostly from random little brewpubs in the early '90s that are probably out of business now, or something Sam Adams spat out during that period. Brain doesn't work well enough to remember the details.
I can remember my first smoked beer (Alaskan) at GABF in 1995, first faro (Lindemans), and a few other really oddball beers, but not the original classics (Pilsner Urquell in 1990?). Guiness Foreign Extra Stout is probably a good guess in the stout category (maybe 1987?).

 

Rolling Rock is and always was an "extra pale" American adjunct lager.

Sounds high for Piels but NJ did have higher beer prices at the time (State minimum pricing probably still in effect). In its traditional home market in NY, Piels was going for $4.99/cs. Probably cheaper once Schaefer was brewing it in PA, bottled in 16 oz. returnable bottles.

In the US, "premium" is used to classify a beer by it's price segment. Budweiser is a "premium (priced)" beer, while Michelob was the predominant "Super-Premium" in the US at the time.

 

IPA (sort of) - Sam Adams Boston Ale, Hop Pocket
Sour - Russian River Supplication
Pilsner - Generic peruvian stuff.
Heffeweizen - I think it was Paulaner.
Stout-Porter - I think it was Yuengling Porter

I don't remember anything else.

 

Lager- Yuengling
Stout- Guinness
IPA- Jai Alai
Porter- Yuengling

 

IPA- Harpoon
Pale ale- SN
Stout- Guinness
Porter- Founders
DIPA- Dogfish
Imperial Stout- Ten Fidy

 

IPA-Ballantine
ale-Ballantine XXX
lager-Rheingold
stout-Guinness
porter-Stegmeier