Your first beer per style.

Light Adjunct Lager – Coors Light

Adjunct Lager – Red Dog

Pale Ale – SNPA

IPA – Wild Goose

DIPA – Hercules

Saison – Dupont

Porter – Pete’s Wicked Maple

Stout – Guinness

Imperial Stout - Yeti

Pils – Beck’s

Hell – Lowenbrau (the 90’s Canadian version)

Sour – Lindemanns Gueuze, the normal back-sweetened one. It was sold in 375’s in the 90’s. It was kinda sour.

Barleywine – Old Ruffian

ESB – Fuller’s

Doppelbock – Celebrator

 

Firsts? Yeah, sure -- about the first I can really remember is taking a sip of my dad's Drewery's (maybe it was Falstaff?) at around age 8 and hating it. Beyond that, the only way I could possibly pinpoint any firsts is looking at the Merchant DuVin portfolio from the late 80s and early 90s. Too much water under the bridge since I started enjoying better beers.

BTW -- all of you pigeonholing American Adjunct Lager under the wide umbrella of "Lager" ought to be ashamed. Too wide a category to insult with PBR or Bud.

 

Lager: Bud Light (bleh)
Brown: Alesmith Nut Brown
Stout: Dark Horse's Plead the 5th
IPA: Latitude 33 IPA
Barleuwine: Big Foot
Pale Ale: .394

 

Dubbel - Lа Trappe Dubbel
Gose - Almanac Golden Gate
Berliner Weisse - Perennial Hopfentea
Tripel - Chimay White
Bitter - Double Diamond
Brown Ale - Newcastle Brown Ale
Weizenbock - Schneider Aventinus
Rauchbier - Schlenkerla Weizen
Kolsch - Fruh Kolsch
Kriek - Belle-Vue Kriek
Irish Red - Kilkenny
Biere De Garde - Ch'ti Brune
Altbier - Duckstein
Baltic Porter - Baltika #6
English Barleywine - Thomas Hardy's Ale
Old Ale - Greene King Olde Suffolk

 

First Pilsner: Utica Club
First Cream Ale: Genesee
First Schwartzbier: Saranac Black Forest.
(Any beer remotely Gerrman in style was probably a Saranac)
Witbier: Hoegaarden
Dubbels, Tripel and Dark Strong/Quad: Chimay
Pale Ale: Sierra Nevada
IPA: SN Celebration
Belgian Strong Pale: Duvel
English Style Brown: Pete's Wicked Ale
Malt Liquor: O.E.
Light AAL: Old Milwaukee
You get the idea. And you can probably guess my age and where I grew up! Cheers to a cool post!

 

Bravo. Nice list. I was looking to see if anyone mentioned Reingold! Most of the kids on this list started at the top. They missed the climb.

 

European adjunct lager: Slots Guld
AAL: Budweiser
Pilsner: Becks
Porter: Carnegie Porter
Pale Ale: Liberty Ale
IPA: Victory Hop Devil

 

Imperial Stout - Schlafly Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Belgian Quad - Chimay Blue
Saison - Schlafly circa 2005
Lager - Budweiser
Altbier - Schlafly
Kolsch - Schlafly
IPA - Meantime
Imperial IPA - Maharaja
Barleywine - Schlafly
Tripel - La Fin Du Monde
Pale Ale - Schlafly
Irish Red - Killians
Irish Stout - Guinness
Irish Export Stout - Guinness
Oatmeal Stout - Schlafly
Porter - Schlafly
Gose - Side Project

Schlafly was the only craft beer show in town for a long time. Most of my first experiences came from them.

 

Budweiser was my first beer ever. Thanks to that, I thought I didn't like beer until i eventually tried good stuff later in life. As far as styles, I have no idea what my first in each style was.

 

Pale Ale - Tallgrass 8-Bit
IPA - Revolution Anti-Hero
Stout - Guinness
Porter - Revolution Eugene Porter
Red Ale - 4 Hands Reprise Red
Sour - Monk's Café
Farmhouse - Boulevard Tank 7
Wheat - Goose Island 312 Wheat
Can't really think of the others.

 

My first big craft experience was at a Great Divide tasting in Missouri.
DIPA: Hercules
IPA: Titan
RIS: Yeti
Barleywine: Old Ruffian

Before that I drun an American wheat most of the time. Usually boulevard, which I still love.

 

A few of my first beers I know the definative answers to.

Lager: Birra Moretti
APA: Mount Begbie
Stout: Great Divide Yeti
DIPA: Oskar Blues G'knight
Malt liquor: Hurricane
Amber lager: Yuengling
Kolsch: Reissdorf
Chile beer: Dark Sky Serrano Stout
Tripel: Tallgrass Velvet Rooster
Doppelbock: Spaten Optimator
Maibock: Abita Andygator
Dark Mild: Yards Brawler
Oatmeal Stout: Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat
Irish Red: Harpoon Celtic Red
ESB: Redhook ESB
Old Ale: Great Divide Hibernation
Berliner Weiss: Dock Street Summer in Berlin
Swarzbier: Xingu

 

Pale: SNPA
Lager: PBR via dad's fridge
Winter: Pete's Wicked Winter Brew
Porter: Ed Fitz
Trappist: Chimay (red I believe)
Hefe: Thirsty Dog Brewpub's Wheatweiler
DIPA: Hop Czar
Milk Stout: 18th St. Hunter

These are all I remember. Wish I remember more.

And thanks to Hunter milk stout is one of my very favorite styles.

 

Once found Piels in a NY deli for $1.69 in 1977.

 

Pale Ale: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
IPA: Lagunitas IPA
DIPA- Russian River Pliny the Elder
Saison- Green Flash Saison Diego
Porter- Stone Smoked Porter
Pils: Pilsner Urquell
Lager: Budweiser
Sour: Russian River Consecration
Stout: Guinness draught
Imperial Stout: Stone Russian Imperial stout
Old Ale: Fuller's Vintage Ale
Barleywine: Sierra Nevada Big foot
Amber: Fat Tire

 

Schlitz, Pearl, Pearl Light, Lone Star or Texas Pride are the most likely first beer ever for me. There's no way I can recall for sure ... I was probably six. Catholic Bohemian/Cajuns in Texas start early.

Based on BA review dates:
pilsener: Bitburger
American pale: SNPA
American IPA: Karbach Hopadillo
American DIPA: Stone Enjoy By
saison: Karbach Barn Burner
porter (American): Karbach Hellfighter
sour: Jester King's Le Petit Prince

Guiness is definitely my first stout. Samuel Smith Old Brewery Pale Ale is my first English pale ale.

 

My first Guinness is definitely one if the ones I'll always remember. It was actually a buy-back at the biker/burnout bar that my friends and I hung out at (and I may have even been 17 at the time). We were pretty big on drinking their draught Heineken Dark, and apparently the Irish owner/bartender noticed. One day he just up and poured us Guinness Extra Stouts, saying something along the lines of "now it's time for you boys to try a real dark beer". After a sip it was "wow- this guy's right!" Who knew where that encounter would eventually lead after all these years .

 

Not 100% sure if all the following were truly my style firsts...just to the best of my recollection.

IPA/DIPA: Dogfish Head 90 Minute
Stout: Brooklyn Black Chocolate
BA Stout: BCBS
Kölsch: Riessdorf
Saison: Ommegang Hennepin
Dubbel: Ommegang Abbey Ale
Old Ale: North Coast Old Stock
Doppelbock: Paulaner Salvator
Porter: Otter Creek Stovepipe
ESB: Goose Island Honker's Ale
Sour: Hanssens Scarenbecca Kriek
Hefeweizen: Weihenstephaner
Quad: St. Bernardus Abt 12
Wit: Allagash White
Belgian Strong Pale: Duvel
Belgian Strong Dark: Chimay Grand Reserve (blue)
American Strong Ale: Arrogant Bastard
Czech Pils: Pilsner Urquell
Märzen: Sam Adams Oktoberfest
Rauchbier: Aecht Schlenkerla Maerzen
American Barleywine: Brooklyn Monster
Weizenbock: Aventinus
Eisbock: Aventinus Eisbock
Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy: Alesmith Wee Heavy
Altbier: Long Trail Double Bag
English Brown: Samuel Smith's Nut Brown

 

Pale Ale - Summit EPA
IPA - Celebration
Farmhouse - Tank 7
Pilsner - Prima Pils
Amber - Nordeast
Kölsch - Summit Summer
Double IPA - Dirt Wolf
Stout - Guinness
Bourbon Barrel - BCS
Hefeweizen - Weihenstephaner

 

Lager: Coors Banquet
Brown Ale: New Castle
Saison: Le Merle
Pilsner: SA Downtime
Amber Ale: Fat Tire
PA: SNPA
IPA: Torpedo
DIPA: GF Imperial IPA
Porter: SN
Stout: Guinness
Hefeweizen: SN
Kolsch: SN
Belgian Strong Dark: Chimay blue
Scotch Ale: Squatters Wee Peat