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What age did you have your first drink at and what was it?

  • 09-08-2012 01:19AM
    #1
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,188 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I had my first pint at 17 and it was a pint of Smithwicks.


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  • #2
    LoYL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 235 ✭✭LoYL


    I was 0 and it was milk


  • #3
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    11. Harp larger. Sick as a dog.


  • #4
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    14. Homemade apricot wine. Thought it was the worst filth I had ever tasted.


  • #5
    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    Peetrik wrote: »
    11. Harp larger. Sick as a dog.

    Snap!


  • #6
    Scrappychimow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭Scrappychimow


    14 , a one litre woodpeckers cider in pwelli (butlins) wales.


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  • #7
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    14. Can of Scrumpy Jacks. :o


  • #8
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    14. Cherry pop from the furry cup


  • #9
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    17, pints and pints of lovely Bulmers


  • #10
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    13 - vodka, sneakily at a friend's parents' Halloween party. Was sick the next day (possibly from the junk food) and terrified my Dad would bring me to doctor and alcohol would be detected in a blood test! :o


  • #11
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    At the age of ten, I tasted some beer and wine. It was literally just a drop each but I distinctly remember both tasting absolutely horrible.

    At 15, I was offered a glass of beer (Stella I think) by some family members. Took a sip and found it just as vile tasting as when I was 10.

    Maybe there's something different about my taste buds but I just can't stand the taste of anything with alcohol in it. It either burns like vinegar and tastes nasty or just tastes like water with some rotten vegetation mixed in.


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  • #12
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,188 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    No one was asked for ID in a pub when I started drinking, I suppose it's enforced more these days.


  • #13
    Onesimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Onesimus


    I was 3 or 4 years old. It was hot ''whiskey''. My mom and dad used to let me try some.


  • #14
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    When I was seventeen
    I drank some very good beer
    I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID
    My name was Brian McGee
    I stayed up listening to Queen
    When I was seventeen.


  • #15
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Poitin when I was seven.

    Good stuff too.


  • #16
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    Had a glass of champagne when I was 11. It was horrible. First drink not with family was at 17 and it was a blue WKD.


  • #17
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    12 - 2 vodka and cokes at my sister's 21st thanks to her boyfriend, now ex!:p

    Edit This was my first 'real' drink not just an odd taste or sip here and there.


  • #18
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    I was a very loud and obnoxious child (yes, unbelievable, isn't it:pac:) and apparently used to get brandy as a kid to send me to sleep.

    Apart from that, I didn't properly drink until I was 18.

    I'm actually quite opposed to underage drinking and always give teenagers a little lecture when they ask me to buy alcohol for them outside Spar.

    "Plenty of time for that when you're older", I say "go and pick up a hurley and play for Tipp".



    Then they batter me.


  • #19
    Gbear
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    14. Lindon Village in a bush. :o


  • #20
    MaxSteele
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    Whiskey. About 10 months old I think.

    My granny used to add a drop of whiskey into my night cap milk bottle to make sure I didn't wake her up in the middle of the night screaming crying. :)

    My first proper session was at 15 though. Shoulder of vodka on the green. KO'd :cool:


  • #21
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    17, long neck of bulmers. Had vodka that same night as well

    Been drinking bulmers since :cool:


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  • #22
    stevek93
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    At the age of 8 or 9 i robbed my dads half bottle of beer. Remember feeling like I was on top of the world after it. :P


  • #23
    OMARS_COMING_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭OMARS_COMING_


    66.cider.


  • #24
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    OMARS_COMING_ wrote: »
    66.cider.
    Have to say it Omar.

    You never disappoint.


  • #25
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    stevek93 wrote: »
    At the age of 8 or 9 i robbed my dads half bottle of beer. Remember feeling like I was on top of the world after it. :P

    Me an my cousin used to do that and steal cans of guinness, take a few sips and throw it away.

    We were shameful wasters back then:o


  • #26
    ItAintMeBabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 532 ✭✭✭ItAintMeBabe


    13, school disco, shared a nagan of Paddy whiskey with my best mate that we had robbed from home....didnt drink again until i was 17 :D


  • #27
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Around 13 or 14. With the parents - was either a can of cider or a bottle of Smirnoff Ice I'd say.


  • #28
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    14. nagan of vodka or something out in a field.. didnt work out too well as you can imagine


  • #29
    marshbaboon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭marshbaboon


    Vicar in a tutu wrote: »
    14. nagan of vodka or something out in a field.. didnt work out too well as you can imagine

    First time I actually got drunk as a teenager I didn't know how much you should drink, so I got 2 naggins, and drank both of them in a very short space of time...


  • #30
    IrishAm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    Nine. My American uncle bought me two half pints of Guinness at me nans funeral.

    It will stop me experimenting behind the families back, he said.

    Help me grow up with a responsible attitude to alcohol, he said.

    How did that one work out, unc!


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  • #31
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    First time i got drunk;
    15. 4 btls of Bud and 6 btls of Smithwicks

    Had small amounts of alcohol before that.


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