What was your introduction to grown up drinks?

[mr messy]

When a were a lad you had the choice between Merrydown, Buckfast and El Dorado or combination of.
Special Brew was viewed as uncouth but if you considered yourself slightly more sophisticated you went down the cocktail route namely a "Buckies Fizz" made by filling your ubiquitous Sodastream with Buckfast....pure class!

 

[numbnuts]

My parents were not piss heads, but they did make a lot of home brews and wines, so I started at an early age and I drank what every was going, but I don't drink now though.

 

[Brandane]

You must be younger than me, as you never mentioned "lanny". What was its proper name, Lanliq?
All irrelevant because my introduction to the demon drink was at age 14 when a classmate managed to acquire a half bottle of gin. My share of it was enough to ensure that even now, 37 years later, I can't stand the smell of gin .

 

[ianrauk]

A mostly drunk can of Watneys Party 7 after a parents and friends get together....
Think I remember a fag butt swilling around in the bottom of the can too.

 

[vernon]

You must be younger than me, as you never mentioned "lanny". What was its proper name, Lanliq?
All irrelevant because my introduction to the demon drink was at age 14 when a classmate managed to acquire a half bottle of gin. My share of it was enough to ensure that even now, 37 years later, I can't stand the smell of gin .

Gin was not my introduction to alcohol but it was my introduction to alcoholic poisoning also at the tender age of fourteen, three days of semi-consciousness and a total aversion to the taste and smell of alcohol.

Thankfully I'm fully recovered.

 

[asterix]

Tea. I used to take 3 sugars though.

 

[TissoT]

Cans of McEwans bitter at house party's... And watneys party 7

 

[green1]

When I was a toddler the only thing I would drink out of was a Heineken can.
God knows what I was thinking.

 

[subaqua]

minesweeping the glasses as a 3 year old at home. nobody realised what I was doing till far too late.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

When I was a toddler the only thing I would drink out of was a Heineken can.
God knows what I was thinking.

apparently as a toddler mine was the contents of whisky glasses left on the floor (or anything I could reach)... still love the taste of whisky but don't really drink now (in other words it has taken me nearly 18 months to get towards the bottom of a 1L bottle of whisky...)

After that, it was diluted red wine at the Sunday lunch table of my ex-step-grandmother (aged 11-12 I guess).... hate the stuff now.
Then the homebrew in the cellar which had been abandoned... raspberry liqueur (really nice)... Then I learnt to drive and gave up drinking all together.

 

[tadpole]

Half sized tins of colt 45 (4 for a pound at the offee) Didn't get drunk till I went to Stow-on-the wold Horsefair and had half a pint of 6x (cask ale) at the Badgers.

 

[stephec]

Cans of Kestrel at 49p a go, from the only offy that would serve us round our way when we were fifteen.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I met lambics, the real grown-up drink, aged 30-something 20-something years ago in a bar in Brussels. The barman said "You are English yes, you've not had before, no, to you it will taste like, how you say it, 'spew'." This was in an era where in the uk stout was Guinness or Makeson and for rheumy-eyed old men and porter was someone who carried bags.

and shortly thereafter I discovered Cynar and Fernet-Branca.

But I'm not bitter.

 

[ianrauk]

Half sized tins of colt 45 (4 for a pound at the offee) Didn't get drunk till I went to Stow-on-the wold Horsefair and had half a pint of 6x (cask ale) at the Badgers.

Colt 45.. now you're talkin...................

 

[Cubist]

My parents happily gave us an inch of lager in a glass on Sunday lunchtimes .... first I remember I was about 9. Good responsible introduction from them, although it would have been canned Heineken.

I remember drinking a can of Mackesons at a party, probably liking it because it was sweet, but I also remember my old man would cheerfully buy me a pint in pubs from about the age of thirteen onwards.

First time I remember being pissed was when I was about 12. Our school rifle team had a Social function at the local TA officers' mess, and I remember (partially) drinking lots of Old Hooky at 11p a pint. We all have to learn somewhere!

I once accepted the challenge of drinking a bottle of red Martini in one go, thus causing a lifelong aversion.