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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?

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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.

[Deleted User]

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

[Deleted User]

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.

The Backwards Man

14, on a school trip, in a bar called Ahoy! in southeastern Netherlands.

It was a night of many firsts.

jiltloop

I was 12 but about 4 weeks away from my 13th birthday in the early 90s. I was close to 6ft tall already at that stage though and never had trouble getting served in later years either.

God when I think that my daughter is close to that age now it's scary!

DEFTLEFTHAND

17. Bottle of Bulmers.

Christmas 2005.

Had been knacker drinking for about a year beforehand.

Outlaw Pete

15, the old White Horse pub, now called the Dark Horse I think.

hairyslug

I think 16, pub was packed and floor staff younger than me where getting the orders,

diomed

I served myself.
Aged about 5, I was in the bottling store of the pub filling stout bottles from a wooden barrel, as you would.
You had to suck on a metal tube to create a vacuum to get the beer flowing, and then slip an empty beer bottle on the tube, and the bottle would fill.
After doing this unpaid work for my relatives for an hour or two my brother (4) and I walked into the bar to announce we had finished filling the empty bottles.
We must have drank more than we put in the bottles as the customers laughed at the state of us.

Rubberlegs

I would have been 15 when I first started getting served alcohol in pubs/ nightclubs. I still have no idea how as I am very small and there was no way I looked 18.

jamesbere

15, don't know how I got served. Was in a nightclub so probably didn't take any notice of me. Having said that I puked about 2 times that night. Downed a fat frog and think was my first time drinking tequila. Fun times

[Deleted User]

I didn't go to pubs a lot because all my friends looked much younger. only really start started going around 17 with an older bf.

I had been served in off licences, from about 15, because I was the only one that dressed and acted a lot older.

been naker drinking (&the rest)from 12/13

adgib

15 back in the 80s,five pints of Smithwicks, threw up in the lane outside, haven't touched it since, Smithwicks that isðŸ˜