what was your first alcohol experience?

[Spinneret]

a bit of beer at 10

 

[BrianL]

I'll let you know when it happens.

 

[TippyThomas]

I'll let you know when it happens.

Same. Mine hasn't happened yet.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Guarana mixed with rum. Went mental for thee hours.

 

[tvguy]

I was always allowed to have wine with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner as a kid. So alcohol was never a big deal to me. As I recall, I didn't even have a drink on my 21st birthday.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

I honestly don't remember. Probably when I was 4 or 5, a sip of my gramps' PBR.

 

[Moliphino]

My mom let me have sips of her wine when I was a little kid. She didn't think I'd like it.

 

[AnnaS]

My dad's wine made at home at a young age. I tired beer also. Never acquired a taste for it. Wine. I started to like/drink a glass here and there (some of them) a few years ago. Not a "drinker"/have a taste for alcohol. I like some drinks and some sweet ones but if I taste too much alcohol, can't drink it.

 

[PezRuth]

I am sure I had a sip of wine or beer as a kid but most memorable junior year of high school a bit too much southern comfort. I am now 46. Have not touched Southern Comfort since that awful night.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Little Kings in the late 70’s when I was 17.

 

[Rogue1677x]

My family always gave us a little bit of wine at Thanksgiving until I was caught hiding under the table with bottle at age 7 and I was drunk. My grandfather said I was acting like his mother, who was a belligerent drunk, in miniature for (swearing, walking into the walls, etc.), so no more wine for me.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

My family always gave us a little bit of wine at Thanksgiving until I was caught hiding under the table with bottle at age 7 and I was drunk. My grandfather said I was acting like his mother, who was a belligerent drunk, in miniature for (swearing, walking into the walls, etc.), so no more wine for me.

the image of a cursing 7 year old drunk walking into a wall was just too much for me. Funny as all get out.

 

[ncc1701]

My Grandfather's 80th birthday party.I was 2 months away from my 17th birthday ( drinking age in NJ was 18 at the time). Ask my Dad for a Shandy ( half beer, half lemon-lime soda or ginger ale) . He said ok , but don't tell your Mom. Went up later when my Mom was at the bar area , she gave me one saying don't tell my Dad.
I was a good decade behind my younger Sister, who 10 years earlier took a swing out of the same Grandfather's beer at a family wedding,

 

[mumto3girls]

I remember being allowed to have sips of whatever the adults were having as a young child. My first time drunk was at my cousin’s wedding when I was 14 the summer before I started high school. I was a bridesmaid and there was a lot of toasting and my glass was never empty. I don’t think the bartenders had any idea how old I was.

 

[cedricandsophie]

My uncle gave me beer at 8 or 9. But I grew up in a small town. If you could walk into a bar you got served. And I was 30 miles from university of Illinois. Started driving there with friends at 16. Never had a problem getting served. Not sure how I made it home alive but I’m 73 now so the angels were on my side. I don’t regret those days. So much fun and danger mixed together. I wouldn’t recommend for todays youth.

 

[indimom]

Sips of brandy slush at Christmas

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I was a teenager. A friend's mom shared peach schnapps with us.

 

[JLTraveling]

I don't remember. My father's side of the family is Jewish, and they always gave the kids a little bit of wine on Passover and other holidays, pretty much as soon as we were able to drink from regular glasses. I also started doing community theater when I was 8, and we were always allowed one (watered down) drink at the cast party. First time I got drunk was at a house party when I was 15, and a friend and I split a bottle of Peppermint Schnapps. It took a good decade or so before I could stand the taste of it again.

 

[NYCgrrl]

First experience revolved around an empty of ketchup bottle filled with rum and fresh lemon juice. Can’t recall much more.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

First experience revolved around an empty of ketchup bottle filled with rum and fresh lemon juice. Can’t recall much more.

Hmmm, ketchup aftertaste, lemon, and rum. What a combination.