What age were you when you first got served alcohol in a pub?

freshpopcorn

I first got served alcohol in a pub when I was sixteen. I think it was a pint bottle of Bulmers. It was sometime in the late 2000's.
It was common enough for pubs to serve sixteen/seventeen year old once they felt they could trust them.
What age were you when you first got served alcohol in a pub?

Rechuchote

Twenty-seven.

theteal

Yup 16. I had my 17th birthday in a pub.




I won’t say where just in case the parents are on here.....

RocketRaccoon

16, when I started working in a pub in summer 2000.

17larsson

17.
I ordered a double aftershock.
It wasn't as fruity as it looked

Overheal

15 I think but they were also bribed with free Chinese at the local takeout I worked the counter for :pac: went downtown a lot at 17 once I realized the bouncers just wanted to see an ID and size you up to see if you were any trouble or not. But it was a US Passport so maybe that helped in some fashion.

Plague Maiden

I bought my first drink when I was 27, so I'd no problem getting served. Of course I'd been getting served vodkla and cider since I was 15 but, as many a man will tell you, you haven't drank until you've drank Guinnnes.

SEPT 23 1989

14 didn't even look 14 never mind 18

Sonics2k

14. Club FX in Cork many, many years ago.

Got in quite often as I looked older than I was and often got other people in there too.

banie01

14 1st time being served.
1st time in a club would've been either Termites in Limerick or Gorby's in Cork at 14 too.
With a home made ID, made n a typewriter and laminated with an iron!

JupiterKid

16, would be turning 17 in a few months. Fake college ID. Looked about 15 tops at the time. Stands well to me now though!

Wibbs

Another 14 here. Looked older, more like 18.

retalivity

13, almost 14. Rural donegal in the 90s. Had my 18th in the same place over 4 yrs later!

They knew fine well...

beertons

16 at a Macra gig in the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore. It was here I realised I'd need more than a tenner on a night out.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

16.

Younger than that seems to be a rural thing

Trigger Happy

My first attempt was at 15. Asked for a pint of 'beer' and got ran out of the place.
Made a more successful attempt a few weeks later.

circadian

15, funnily enough I got asked for ID in Tesco a few weeks back. I'm well into my 30's now so I guess that's a compliment.

15 was pretty much the year of coming of age for me, first booze in a bar, smoked spliffs, lost my virginity and still managed to do pretty well on my GCSE's. At no point did I know what I was doing, completely clueless and it was bliss.

optogirl

16 - Woodies Alcoholic Lemonade (bleugh)

yabadabado

14 first time being served.I looked every bit the fourteen year old as well.
This was around 96/97 most pubs didn't seem to care until a few years later.I was asked for ID when I was 18 more than I was at 14/15/16.

Ciaran_B

16. In The Plough on Abbey St, a pub long closed down.

banie01

optogirl wrote: »

16 - Woodies Alcoholic Lemonade (bleugh)

2 Dogs Alcoholic Lemonade was soooo much worse! But was only £10 a slab!

_Dara_

15ish. It was 1998 or 1999.

FTA69

14 in Dungarvan. Had three pint bottles of Bulmers and was absolutely flaming. I was sitting up at the bar as well bold as brass. I think someone grassed us up to the cops because two uniformed guards came in later on and I had to hide before legging it out the door.

peasant

16 (legal age in Germany )

EdEd

14 or 15. I was bricking it.

fleet_admiral

15. Swallowed a pint of Guinness while shaking with fear

Lorelli!

I was about 16.

Around that time I was waitressing in a hotel and one of the older women that worked there said she'd get me and my friend into the adjoining nightclub. We were in 5th year at school and when we got into the club, it was practically full of the kids from 6th year. I remember saying to my friend joking "we may as well be in school!"

Hector Savage

17! a pint of Scrumpy Jack cider on a nice summer evening in 1995 !!!

I'll Never forget it.

razorblunt

Sonics2k wrote: »

14. Club FX in Cork many, many years ago.

Got in quite often as I looked older than I was and often got other people in there too.

Ah yes, you'd often make the mistake of going in there at 15/16 and going to a teenage disco in The Keg next door on a Friday night, only for the bouncers to do a double take and say "alright, which one should you NOT be here for!"

razorblunt

16 for me.
Bottle of Budweiser I believe.

2smiggy

14 , during USA 94 , not one of Ireland matches, think Brazil was playing. Pint bottles of carling for the win

Sleepy

14 but it was in France so that probably doesn't count.
I was getting off-license from about 15/16 and I think I was 16 the first time I was served in a pub. I really don't remember my first pub pint though...

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I was 13, it was at a festival in a small village in Roscommon. Got asked what age I was at the bar and said I was 19. I probably looked about 15. Your one smiled at me and obviously knew well, but served me anyway. This would have been 1998. I don't think it'd happen now, even in the same pub!

A pint of Bud I think it was. Had a few that day too, it's mental when I think about it now, I wasn't even shaving at the time.

Owryan

Probably 16, the good old stables in Carlow. Was well known back in the day for underage drinking.

chrissb8

15 years old at a house party down the road celebrating the Junior Cert ending. 3 cans and I was drunk.

Keyzer

5...

I had an awful thirst on me at the time.

Real answer = 16

Mantis Toboggan

15 in the local, bar man was our manager for the under 16 hurling team.

PARlance

chrissb8 wrote: »

15 years old at a house party down the road celebrating the Junior Cert ending. 3 cans and I was drunk.

The house had a pub?

blue note

I'd say I'd have been 16 and it was quite easy to get into and served in a few pubs at the time. That would have been the summer of 2002. Then Micheal McDowell was minister of Justice and brought in the rule that 16 year olds weren't allowed in pubs after 9pm and places got really strict on it, so we started to have huge trouble getting into any pub. The funny thing was though, when we were 16 you'd have a table of 8 people with 2 lads on it getting served. So they'd be ordering faster than they were drinking and you'd have about 4 lads drinking at the table. It was very safe really. The next summer we couldn't do that so instead we hit the beach or similar places with a slab of cans and got sh1tfaced. It was kind of an out of site out of mind solution to the problem in my view.

Now that I'm an adult though I'm happy enough to have those teenagers out of site. If they could raise the drinking age to 21 that would be great actually.

daheff

15

had a fake ID saying i was 21 (figured they'd not believe it if i had one saying 18...as everybody pretended to be 18...if i pretended to be older they'd just think i looked young for my age worked too )

Pauliedragon

16. It took me about 3 hrs to drink 2 pints. It was the thrill of it rather than the drink itself.

16 but most of the lads with me were 15. Junior cert results night, the big underage disco in the locality was too full and we were turned away so back to a village close to home and chanced one of the locals known for being a bit lax asking for ID. About 8 or us drank there for the rest of the evening no questions asked

14 but I was with my brother who was 28. He asked me what I wanted, I think I just said a coke or something, but he didn’t hear me properly and thought I asked him for a Fosters. He bought me three of them.

I didn’t start going by myself until after the leaving cert and I started working full time.

SeaFields

15. But then again I've always looked about 40 so I probably would have been served as an 10 year old.

blackwhite

15 - The Leitrim bar in Sligo town. Think it was a Weds or Thurs night - place was empty and they happily served decent-sized gang of us without asking anyone for ID.

My unexperienced choice of first pub drink - a pint of Bud

Peatys

We used to go on the hop from 5th yr school, cycle to the Goblet. Have a pint, then 4 cans into the school bag and head for Howth Summit.

vandriver

15,in Manchester.Never once asked for id as i don't think that was even a thing in 1982.
Being 6ft 2 at 15 helped.

RasTa

17 downstairs in the International. For some reason I drank 6 pints of Smithwicks

DPolo

14 , week before turning 15, the fact at 24 now I still look pretty much the same probably helped

danganabu

circadian wrote: »

15, funnily enough I got asked for ID in Tesco a few weeks back. I'm well into my 30's now so I guess that's a compliment.

Don't, they just had a special offer for OAP's on that week

15 myself, it was the Ireland v Italy match in '94 world cup

MiliMe

I think it was 15. I know looked older, green as grass tho.