Leftover warm Heineken at the bottom of a bottle. After a dinner party thrown by my parents. Snuck a little swig while the grownups were outside saying goodbye. I must have been 9 or 10-yo. Tasted like snakebite. Just awful.

Didn’t go near beer till midway through college.

MGD (Miller genuine draft) when I was Six.

Dad puts water down and I’m always allowed to drink from it, he always had super chilled water with ice. It always tasted good.

He put this thing down, it was ice cold so I took my normal two gulps. He comes back from the bathroom and yells at my older brother asking if he took a drink of his beer. “No, I hate the taste of beer”

Looks down at me with a giant ass grin on my face.

I had a deal with my Dad. If I get him a beer, he’ll give me the first sip. I remember it being gross. 🤢

A sip of red wine the adults said was the blood of a man who lived about 2,000 years ago.

First sip aside from magic ceremonies, a cold beer alongside a ham sandwich while working outside. Probably an american lager like Coors or Bud Light.

I think it was a bottle of Miller draft, dad let me have a sip when I was 15 or so. It tasted so gross I stayed away from beer and alcohol until well into my 20’s, I just couldn’t understand why people drank that stuff.

Eventually realized not all beer tastes the same haha.

Like most US teens: Stolen beer.

Cheap French lager in one of those stubby bottles. Funny how I remember the taste favourably even though I don’t like lager these days.

It was my grandmother’s homemade plum wine.

She has passed away now, so it remains a very strong memory for me.

Champagne in Reims when i was 12 Was good. But i dont drink alcohole in anything

A couple sips of a beaujolais. It was super dry, and I did not care for it. Nowadays, I love dry reds.

Yes, it was the beer from next town’s brewery (it doesn’t exist anymore)

Me and my bestie snuck a Red Dog beer out from her neighbors garage and we split it when we were 14. We thought we got drunk off that half can of beer each, I’ll never forget that day we had so much fun laughing. 30 years later and now I brew my own. Cheers!

Sip of beer, mostly foam, almost certainly a yuengling or Budweiser.

Also would occasionally have a small glass of wine or champagne for holiday dinners and such.

Liquor was a shot of some kind of fruity vodka, chased with some Gatorade. I was about 18 or 19, didn’t really drink but my girlfriend did, and she wanted to have a drink with me so I obliged. Only time I drank with her.

Couple years later I was still living at home, I was about 19 or 20, parents were out of town and I was looking to make dinner. Found a recipe that sounded good that called for some beer, texted my parents I was gonna use a beer for cooking and got the ok. Used about half the beer, drank the other half. I believe it was a yuengling Oktoberfest.

First proper time drinking was about 2 weeks before I turned 21. I stayed on with my old scout troop as a leader, and we were going to be away on a week long canoe trip over my birthday. I was at a friend’s shore house hanging out for a few days, and since a couple of us were 21, we grabbed a case of beer, I believe corona and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black. We didn’t go hard, we sat on the deck, smoked some cigars, had some scotch and a couple beers, but mostly we just hung out, went to the beach, and played D&D.

After I got back from my trip, for my first legal drink I went out with some coworkers after work. Had a few Yuenglings and a shot of Jack. Had a nice buzz going so I walked home. Had the hiccups most of the way.

Sparkling wine.

Communion wine on an occasion that the grape juice wasn’t available.

I think it may have been part of what put me off of both alcohol and religion.