Your FIRST beer??

My dad wasn't really a beer drinker when I was a kid, but had brought home a big cardboard box of beer leftover from a conference reception his company had hosted. So he just stuck it in the basement and it sat there, all those cans on their sides, stacked up (picture a box the width of the cans but bigger than a case). 7th grade me would eye it and eye it and was sure it was a trap. Surely he knew exactly how many he brought home, right? And he'd check and be able to see if the level had gone down, right? I'd take them out and hold them, put them back in. It was like gold. Then one night a buddy spent the night and we decided to go for it. We took one can and snuck out late at night and walked around the neighborhood, passing the can back and forth, alternating slugs of piss-warm Miller Lite, back when they just called it Lite. We were the kings of all creation. We had arranged to meet up with another kid in the neighborhood and when we walked up casually passing a beer back and forth, he looked at us in wonder. We played it cool for effect. "Oh, you know, just havin' a beer." Kings, I tell you.

 

My parents were scotch drinkers, but every once in a while my father would have a Ballantine and give me a sip. I can't remember how it tasted.
In the mid 70's, when I was doing my pediatrics residency, we used to have housestaff vs attendings softball games. We always had a keg of Bud for the games. At one of them my youngest daughter, then three years old, happily poured beer for the players. She also apparently drank some herself, fell asleep on the way home, and slept for the next twelve hours. My then wife never let me forget that incident.

 

Maybe 15 or 16. I remember my friends and I thought "we better start drinking this stuff now so that we like it by college". It was probably a nati ice or something like that.

 

Ha! That's really mature forethought!

 

Lol intelligent bunch we were

 

8th Grade, Stood outside a Deli with 3 buddies till some guy came up that would buy us beer. We each got a quart of Miller and "drank" in the bleachers of our football field. It tasted so bad to me I pretended I had to piss and poured most of it out. Maybe that's why I think Miller taste like piss?!

 

Who can remember that long ago? I started drinking beer in the late 1970's. My dad didn't drink so there was never beer in the house. I grew up in Wisconsin and the legal age was 18 then. Being a big kid, I could walk into old timer bars and order a beer when I was 16. The 1st time I did that I think it was Old Style. Certain stores would sell without an ID so I remember buying Budweiser or Miller High Life when I was 17. Funny thing, I actually enjoyed beer from the very beginning.

 

Sam Adams Boston Lager

 

I was 7 or 8 years old. My parents brought back beer for our nieghbor from Germany. He was stationed in Bitburger and loved their beer. So one day they were all drinking and gave me a sip. I hated it!

 

Moosehead @ my brothers friends graduation party.... 1983.... I was 8yrs...

 

it was Budweiser from my dads fridge in the garage

 

Iron City

 

Natty Lite.

 

Busch

 

The first beer I tasted was Bud I believe when I was about 3. One of my dads friends had come over and brought a 6-pack and my dad gave me a sip, I remember thinking it was horrible and saying that I'd never drink that stuff again.

But the first whole beer I had was when I was 13 at a party where my dad gave me a whole Killian's Irish Red, I felt like the biggest bad ass at the party. And being Killian's it was half bad, much better than the Bud I had tried previously.

 

10. Stole a sip from my uncle's bud can. From what I remember it was damn good.

 

About 5 y/o and that would be Stroh's.

 

This. My older brothers and my dad all used to pound Busch (beer, you perverts!) like it was going out of style. I was probably around 8-10 years old.

 

first beer: a sip of Bud that my uncle let me try while they were playing poker, distinctly remember yuck coming to mind.

first whole beer: PBR. works great for playing king's cup in college & waterfalls. also, remember yuck coming to mind lol

 

Hard to say. Both my father and uncle kept 1/4 kegs in their fridge's from earliest memories. It was either Genny, Genny light or Cream Ale at home and Piels at my uncles. My cousins and I thought the taps were the coolest thing. I was indifferent about the taste of it but, drank my share none the less. I think we were between the ages of 8 to 12 at the time - mid 70's. First skunk drunk on beer, 13 or 14, was on Rolling Rock pony bottles at a friends house, his father always had a fridge stuffed solid with nothing else.