• Canopyflyer@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Budweiser in the middle of the night at a party on the shore of Lake Cumberland in Kentucky.

    The party was great, but the “beer” was so thoroughly disgusting that I have not drunk it since and that was 35 years ago.

    Life is too short to drink bad beer.

    • Curious Canid@lemmy.ca
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      18 hours ago

      At seventeen, I drank several beers to see if I could get used to the awful taste. The answer turned out to be “no”. It put me off alcohol for life.

      I have tried various a lot of different drinks, but I have never found anything alcoholic that I actually like. I am now in my 60’s and I’m perfectly happy with not drinking.

      • Canopyflyer@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        I’m in my middle 50’s. There are alcoholic drinks I do like, but Miller and Budweiser and not among them. The wife and I will have wine, typically a Malbac or Chianti, with dinner a few times a month, then I’ll use the rest of the bottle to cook with. My local liquor store has a great selection of beers that you can mix and match. I usually pick up a 6 pack, especially when Dopplebocks are in season. A local brewery here has a “Dark Dopplebock” that is really good. Those 6 will sit in my fridge over the next several months until I slowly get to them.

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    19 hours ago

    Grandad let me have a taste of whiskey when I was a kitten, maybe five or six. I didn’t like it.

    Mom took me on a vacation to NYC a few months after my 21st birthday. Had a rum&coke during an off-Broadway showing of Spamalot. It was acceptable.

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    17 hours ago

    My dad let me taste a tiny amount of some forgettable beer when I was a teen. I didn’t really like it and didn’t actually start drinking until I was 22 (largely because of rampant alcoholism on all sides of my family)

  • highlow@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Whiskey (Wild Turkey I think) when I was teething. I know I was told to rub it on the gums of my siblings being the oldest. First I got drunk on was moonshine when I was 8. Cool step uncle used to give me cigarettes, booze and weed. I kept an eye on his still and weed plants out in the woods.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    Yukon Jack at 14.

    Fucking disgusting.

    My cousins and I made some drink one year at a New Years party when we found ourselves alone in the kitchen. I don’t remember the booze, but we mixed it with juicy juice. I was 12. I sipped the cup being passed around us 6-7 cousins, but none of us drank enough for effect.

    Two years later it was yukon jack with friends. I remember falling asleep in the park.

    The first time I got “wasted” I was 17. I don’t fucking remember what we were drinking. I do remember I party fouled the bowl of weed being passed around though lol

  • blarghly@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I stole a Coors Lite from my folks fridge at 16. Tasted gross. Stole liquor from the pantry a few times after that. Never managed to get drunk off of it, since I couldnt steal enough without being concerned they would notice.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Beer if you count the sip my dad gave me as a toddler.

    Plum rice wine if you count my first real underage drinking experience.

    My first legal drink was rumple minze.

    Bad decisions all around.

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    1 day ago

    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. 🤢

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    A half pint of Smithwick’s in The Long Dock in Carrigaholt, Co. Clare, Ireland, in the late 90s. I was 14. It was glory in a glass.

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    22 hours ago

    7 or 8 shots of vodka on my 15th birthday. I was pretty sure the hangover was going to kill me…