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

freshpopcorn · 17-05-2018 08:12AM #1

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 · 17-05-2018 08:13AM

Twenty-seven.

theteal · 17-05-2018 08:15AM

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

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

RocketRaccoon · 17-05-2018 08:19AM

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

17larsson · 17-05-2018 08:21AM

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

Overheal · 17-05-2018 08:24AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:24AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:25AM

14 didn't even look 14 never mind 18

Sonics2k · 17-05-2018 08:27AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:32AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:36AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:41AM

Another 14 here. Looked older, more like 18.

retalivity · 17-05-2018 08:43AM

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

They knew fine well...

beertons · 17-05-2018 08:44AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:46AM

16.

Younger than that seems to be a rural thing

Trigger Happy · 17-05-2018 08:46AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:52AM

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 · 17-05-2018 08:53AM

16 - Woodies Alcoholic Lemonade (bleugh)

yabadabado · 17-05-2018 08:57AM

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 · 17-05-2018 09:02AM

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

banie01 · 17-05-2018 09:06AM

optogirl wrote: »

16 - Woodies Alcoholic Lemonade (bleugh)

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

_Dara_ · 17-05-2018 09:06AM

15ish. It was 1998 or 1999.

FTA69 · 17-05-2018 09:08AM

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 · 17-05-2018 09:11AM

16 (legal age in Germany

)

EdEd · 17-05-2018 09:16AM

14 or 15. I was bricking it.

fleet_admiral · 17-05-2018 09:18AM

15. Swallowed a pint of Guinness while shaking with fear

Lorelli! · 17-05-2018 09:32AM

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 · 17-05-2018 09:55AM

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

I'll Never forget it.

razorblunt · 17-05-2018 09:59AM

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 · 17-05-2018 10:01AM

16 for me.
Bottle of Budweiser I believe.

2smiggy · 17-05-2018 10:09AM

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

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

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