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First beer you tried and how old? (1 Viewer)

PBR, and probably 4 or 5. Grandpa offered me a taste for making the runs to the basement fridge on Sunday cookouts.

 
Warm Schlitz by the railroad tracks around the age of 14. After that nasty debacle never would have thought my beer drinking career would take off like it has.

Enjoying a cold Founders Centennial IPA at the moment. 

 
5 or 6, and it was a pony bottle of Miller High Life. My mom would have me bring out a beer to my dad while he would mow. I always sneaked a taste. He branched out to Rolling Rock pony bottles a couple years later.

 
My dad uaed to have a huge beer can collection...like thousands and thousands of cans on custom built shelves in our garage, all in alphabetical order. Most opened from the bottom to look full. Some of my earliest memories are of him and his friends poking holes in bottoms of CASES of beer and setting them right side up in the yard to empty them so they could ship the empty cases around the world for other empties. They always had Lucky Lager in the garage fridge, and I remember my dad giving me sips when I was 5 or 6...this was 1975 or so..

2 walls in our garage looked like THIS. When my parents divorced and sold the house, I think he sold his collection for around $20k.

ETA: my first solo beer was Pearl Beer when I was 12. Drank enough of them to puke in a friend's car and all over my buddies sisters back (I was in back seat, she was in front). Good times.

 
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wilked said:
Every kid had a sip of their dads beer. Better question is when frank first full beer
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My answer stands. My older brother talked my sister into buying for him and his buddies. He gave me a beer so i wouldnt narc him out. It tasted awful, at the time.

 
I definitely tried a taste of my dad's beer when I was probably 8 or 9. Did not like. No clue what it was. My first time having a beer for real was a Lowenbrau when I was 12. 

 
Schlitz, given to me by my favorite Uncle when I was probably 10 or so.  That Jai Alai I gave my nephew last July is a bit of a step up.

 
I'm not sure how old I was when I first took a sip of my dad's beer, but I'm positive it was a Genesee Cream Ale since that was the one kind he'd always drink in the house (and it still is).

 
Sip of dad’s Pearl (“the beer from Texas with the triple X’s” went the jingle) around 10. Hated it. 

First beer to myself: Heinekin Brown from my uncle’s fridge around 14. Got a buzz and puked. Good times. 

 
RokNRole said:
A bud. Pretty sure it was no more than a few weeks old when I had it. Don't they rotate out the old ones?
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They try to. But you always have to be careful at some places. Especially at Sam's. The buy so much at a time, it's easy to get stuck with some stuff from an old pallet if you don't pay attention. Sam's is a pretty terrible place to buy beer, in general, but sometimes the lack of wanting to make another stop makes it necessary.

Also, craft beer in lower income grocery stores. Never buy there without checking dates.

 
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First sample i remember was Miller high Life while watching the wolverines. They had to be winning because Dad was in a good mood. Probably around 8 or so.

First full drink was around 12, my parents had me making their rum and coke and 7 and 7s by then, so I made myself a rum and coke. Around that same timeframe I had the flu and Dad would give me a shot of whiskey to make me feel better. Don't think it worked but it might have sped up my vomiting.

First full beer was probably around 16 but that's just a guess.

 
pollardsvision said:
They try to. But you always have to be careful at some places. Especially at Sam's. The buy so much at a time, it's easy to get stuck with some stuff from an old pallet if you don't pay attention. Sam's is a pretty terrible place to buy beer, in general, but sometimes the lack of wanting to make another stop makes it necessary.

Also, craft beer in lower income grocery stores. Never buy there without checking dates.
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Maybe a dumb question but if you're buying bud or other cheap beers do you really need to stick strictly to the expiration dates?

 
Probably 6 or 7. My dad would drop us off at soccer practice, and he would sit in the car with a 6 pack, his newspaper, and his smokes. I would come in from practice and ask for something to drink, and he would give me a beer.

Good times. <_<

Hated that  :censored: guy.

 
Don't remember my first beer. Around 13, I was drinking Schlitz and Rolling Rock pretty regularly though.

 
pollardsvision said:
They try to. But you always have to be careful at some places. Especially at Sam's. The buy so much at a time, it's easy to get stuck with some stuff from an old pallet if you don't pay attention. Sam's is a pretty terrible place to buy beer, in general, but sometimes the lack of wanting to make another stop makes it necessary.

Also, craft beer in lower income grocery stores. Never buy there without checking dates.
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In college we would regularly go to the distributor for "dock sales", where they would sell all the stuff that was about to expire super cheap.  Things like $3 12-packs of Keystone, and 6 packs of Fosters oil cans for $2.  I remember a dude buying like 20 cases of Coors at the beginning of summer to last him for the next three months.  

 
-OZ- said:
Maybe a dumb question but if you're buying bud or other cheap beers do you really need to stick strictly to the expiration dates?
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Probably not, but it's just a habit for me to check. For piss beer, it's rarely an issue (they move so fast). But I often buy a good amount of beer at a time (have a dedicated full size beer fridge in the basement that always has 2-3 24 packs of piss beer and 6-8 12 packs of an assortment of Sierra Nevada). I go through beer pretty quickly, but with so much inventory, there's always a chance something will hang around a while.

It's more of an issue with the craft beer though. You'd be shocked how old some of that is. Food Lion down the street is still try to pass off some Sierra Nevada from last February. I reach in the back for newer stuff and politely put the old stuff back hoping some unsuspecting fool will get it out of my way by next time. But at this Food Lion, I think I'm only one buying the Sierra Nevada.

In fact, it's one of the many reasons I buy Sierra Nevada. Easy to find dates. I don't buy craft beer if I can't find the date. I almost never buy a 6-pack of anything. Partially for value and if I'm going to stock the basement fridge, 12-packs are easier to carry, but many breweries don't put dates on individual bottles or 6-packs.

 
Speaking of piss beer, I found another that I'd just prefer not to drink (and I like most any manner of piss beer).....Rolling Rock. Hadn't had it in a while, but the local store was out of 24-pack's of my usual piss beer (Coors Banquet). Hadn't had a box of Rocks in a while, so I gave it a try again. Pretty awful, though I'm seeing it pop up more and more with the hipster crowd (though I don't get close enough to see hipsters in their natural habitat much these days).

 
nine years old, was a Rheingold - at my Uncle Nunzio's in Bensonhurst for Sunday dinner ... he made a killing on the '69 WS, and remained a big Mets fan as a result, and Rheingold (as well as Schaefer) was as much a part of those Channel 9 telecasts as Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson - matter of fact, pretty sure Bob and Ralph were ####faced on said brew through many a broadcast (only time we got to see the Muttsies, though ... we were a Yankees household).

 
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