What was your introduction to grown up drinks?
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TissoT
Guru
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- The Home of British cycling
Remember being stood at the bar at 15 years old ... and a guy asking for half bitter and a bottle of manns !
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Cider bought by an elder brother at the local Safeways and mixers liberated from the parents drinks cabinet sweetened with some cordial or other and consumed with chums down the local park. 
Diggs
Veteran
- Location
- Billericay, Essex
My first beer came out of a watering can. Daddy Diggs used to organise a large 5 a side tornament, I was stuck in the committee tent absolutely parched. Beer was brought out to the tent in a watering can and given nothing else was available, Dad poured me some in a small plastic cup. Tasted awful at the time.
By the time I was playing rugby and watering cans were being used in lieu of jugs in my clubhouse, my palate had changed somewhat
By the time I was playing rugby and watering cans were being used in lieu of jugs in my clubhouse, my palate had changed somewhat
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
Vaux bitter - Moor & Pheasant Pub, Dalton near Thirsk - 1981
JtB
Prepare a way for the Lord
- Location
- North Hampshire
Coffee with school dinners after I moved to secondary school.
the_mikey
Legendary Member
- Location
- South Gloucestershire
Drambuie care of my grandfather when I was 14 
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Rum and black at the age of 14 with friends in the pub.
Thunderbird, it came in three different colour labels, red blue and yellow. All tasted exactly the same from what I can remember and that was when I was about 15/16 (ish) I bet if i tried it now it would taste like sh#te but not see it around for years.
Dave 123
Legendary Member
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- Cambridgeshire alps
I used to love the head off my dads pint. I loved the bitterness, and still do.
But I am abstaining at present.
But I am abstaining at present.
Roadhump
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted
- Location
- The flatlands of South West Lancs
My dad allowed me to have a drink of sherry at a family Christmas party when I was about 10. I didn't realise he only meant me to have the small glass he poured me. I t tasted really nice so I got a tumbler and helped myself a couple of times. The next thing was, I was rolling around all over the place and when told to behave myself I started kicking off like the people you see coming out of nightclubs in those Britcop type TV programmes. Despite liking a pint or six in my adulthood, I've never been one for kicking off in drink, must have been a one-off.
1970, I was 9 and on holiday with my parents in Calella, a big deal back then. I heard them, in the hotel room, talking and worrying about having too much alcohol to take back on the flight. So I decided to help them out. 
I can vividly recall looking for my parents and staggering into the bar area near reception where I collided with some stools and fell. I'd drank nearly a whole bottle of Tia Maria and was taken to hospital.
Just the smell of that drink, or other sugary liqueurs like Glayva or Cointreau, makes me retch.
I can vividly recall looking for my parents and staggering into the bar area near reception where I collided with some stools and fell. I'd drank nearly a whole bottle of Tia Maria and was taken to hospital.
Just the smell of that drink, or other sugary liqueurs like Glayva or Cointreau, makes me retch.
Bobby Mhor
Legendary Member
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- Behind You
Eldorado Eldorado Eldorado rich white wine....
Was a cider drinker in my early teenage years with parental support ( ma da bought it
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Was a cider drinker in my early teenage years with parental support ( ma da bought it
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