Your first legal drink?

DazMarz

I remember thinking, back when I was approaching my 18th birthday, that I wanted to choose my first legal drink very carefully. I wanted something memorable and fitting.

I chose a pint of Guinness, and I'm happy that Guinness was my first legal drink.

Anyone else? What was the first drink you were legally able to enjoy?

dr.bollocko

Sorry dude. I have no idea. It was my birthday. So I was wasted.

phasers

Vodka and... something

Executive Steve

Defintitely remember my first illegal one, in the late lamented Barley Mow on Francis street, served a Guinness age 10...

OutlawPete

Bottle of Grolsch in Bruxelles the night of my 18th a suppose. Was drinking there for years though so wasn't a big deal tbh .. tis true

Michellenman

Think it was a shot of some sort.

I don't really remember :S

DazMarz

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Sorry dude. I have no idea. It was my birthday. So I was wasted.

Ha, I was pretty much the same. Remember the first lovely pint of Guinness and then very fúcking little after that...

brummytom

Depends what you mean by legal. If you mean '18' then I'll tell you in 2011 :pac:
But here, it's legal to drink in a pub over 16 if it's bought by an adult. My dad bought me one after my birthday, a Carlsberg

SV

First legal would have been a nice pint of Bulmers.. Ah and then I progressed onto the vodkas.. Sambucas, sex on the beachs.. Oh I loved being a student.. People are so so boring now

GLaDOS

Was at a chinese restaurant so I suspect it was tsing tao beer

blubloblu

Breast milk.

Doyler92

Surely nobody drank alcohol before the age of 18!?

Mint Sauce

was a late starter, never liked beer that much as a teenager so it was probably an alco pop, then i discovered guinness

brummytom wrote: »

Depends what you mean by legal. If you mean '18' then I'll tell you in 2011 :pac:
But here, it's legal to drink in a pub over 16 if it's bought by an adult. My dad bought me one after my birthday, a Carlsberg

since when, never heard that before

Cadiz

Champagne cider. 50p in Roches. Klassy.

InKonspikuou2

A guinness and whiskey chaser on the day i turned 18. Didn't really feel special because i had been drinking for 4 years and was getting into my locals for almost 2 years by then.

minidazzler

I was in France when I was 17, it's where I first Drank.

Smirnoff Vodka straight up.

First Legal Drink in Ireland.

Bulmers....it was nice at the time

b12mearse

Cant remember I was wasted. I can remember my first illegal one. was much sweeter. I got into a nightclub wne i was 13 and drank 3 pints of bulmers and was wasted.

i remember going to the same nightclub when i was 16 and was refused when they seen me on the paper with the under 18 rugby team. lol

brummytom

irish-stew wrote: »

since when, never heard that before

Oh, that's what I was told.


Just found this:

Almighty Wikipedia wrote:

People aged 16 or 17 may consume wine, beer or cider on licensed premises (pubs/bars/restaurants) with a table meal. In England & Wales, an adult must order.

So I was half-right. It's semi-legal :P

I normally have a bag of crisps with a pint, that's a meal for me :pac:

G_R

i remember my first legal pint very well.

My 18th was on a thurs so i had school the next day, but i had to go out for a pint anyway. I had been served in all the pubs in town (not dublin, dont start:D) but one so went to that one and my school principal was sitting at the counter. I ordered a Pint of Cider for me and my mate then offered to buy my principal a pint. he refused:mad:

El Siglo

I think it was guinness or budejovicky budvar, I had my first year college exams at the time so I couldn't get fucked up.

Sea Sharp

I was in 1st year in college. I went out the night before my birthday. then at 12AM I had my first legal pint, which was my fourth of the night.

Mossy Monk

Heineken probably.

ToniTuddle

First illegal drink - vodka and coke at 14
(or whiskey when I was 5!That taught grandad not to leave the glass lying about)

First legal drink - Whole bottle of vodka with some red bull in it and a Frames gig in Derry!

pearliefan

I hadn't thought of this.... I shall be legal very soon and I'm going to give this much consideration!!! maybe some southie and red... it's always been my favourite...

stovelid

Smithwicks

captainspeckle

Legal drink, not sure.... I think i went our on the eve of my birthday so i was prob pissed by 12 to remember. prob some alcopop ****e... ah the good ould days where alcopops didnt make me want to puke my brains out. my first illegal drink was some of a can of carling.

FearDark

brummytom wrote: »

Depends what you mean by legal. If you mean '18' then I'll tell you in 2011 :pac:
But here, it's legal to drink in a pub over 16 if it's bought by an adult. My dad bought me one after my birthday, a Carlsberg

Ya, I dont think so...

Cupcake_Crisis

My first illegal drink was a bacardi and coke that i stole on my mam and drank it in the toilets of my cousins christening. Ive always been classy lady!

My first legal drink was probably a shot of something or other. Everything from 18 onwards is a bit of a blur tbh

entropi

First legal one...well i only started this year and i'm 28:P but it was a bottle of corona at a college social night:D

Davidius

The first thing I drank on my 18th birthday was water.

I had a coke that day too I think.

Fringe

Went out and bought a 6 pack of Bavaria on the day of my birthday just because I could. Didn't drink it until the weekend though cos I had school that day. I wasn't that hard...

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Haven't had my first legal one yet.:(
My first drink was a pint bottle of Bulmers that me and 2 of the lads took and drank between us in a tiny little forest(20-30 trees) beside a bog.
My first drink to get drunk was a shoulder of vodka..good night..I think.:pac:

kowloon

My father opened up an 18 year old port he had saved for the occasion. If I have children I hope to do the same for them.

Corkfeen

Mine was a pint of bulmers which I got on a train.

Latchy

I do recall it was a pint of smithicks .I was anybodys after that first pint :pac:

brummytom

FearDark wrote: »

Ya, I dont think so...

I know yeah, my daddy lied to me. I posted the law he got confused with up there above yours

moonflower

Vodka and orange juice before I went out on my 18th. First legal drink in a pub was a pint of Guinness, later that night

DancingQueen:)

Turned 18 this month but still havn't had my first legal drink yet, waiting for some of my friends to turn 18 and for christmas holidays, nearly there.

Whosbetter?

No idea!

I was 17 throughout my first year in college, so I started drinking then.
No probs getting served in pubs back then!

I turned 18 in 1986, so I can be forgiven for forgetting the first legal one.:D

Gavin "shels"

Pint of Budweiser, followed by a few more and a jager bomb. Was a school night and just a few of us heade to what was our local.

cloneslad

haven't had my first legal drink or my first illegal drink



BTW, I'm 25, just not arsed with drinking

OutlawPete

ToniTuddle wrote: »

First legal drink - Whole bottle of vodka with some red bull in it and a Frames gig in Derry!

Go on The Frames

piby

We had a cup game the following day so I couldn't actually drink the day I turned 18! That said we were knocked out so my first legal nights drinking/first drink are all lost in a blur of singing Bread of Heaven and other such typical south Dublin rugby songs . . .

Seloth

I think it was Heinkin...I only started to drink that about 2 weeks before I turned 18 there in august heh...I hated the stuff before that,used always trya nd get my hadns on the gateway drink Bulmers

meathawk

It was a pint of Heiniken bought on the night of my birthday at the Goat, love the pub tbh.

Xavi6

Twas the Bulmers

citizen_p

still waiting....i get served in pubs anyway....so its nothing speacial

GrahamThomas

Pint of Bulmers, a few of the lads from work brought me to the pub.

Things went downhill pretty rapidly from there, and my only other recollection of that night involves tequila and a woman twice my age sticking her tongue in my ear :eek:

Sulmac

A bottle of Bulmers, followed by more bottles and then shots of Aftershock and Tequila.

I think...

PeteEd

Ulsters "best" a pint of Harp Larger.

Oh how times have changed!

Pygmalion

Haven't had my first legal drink