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

fasttalkerchat · 09-08-2012 09:59PM

A mouthful of harp and a shot of whiskey around 10.
Proper drink 16 - Can of Heinekin in a field.
Regular drinking in pubs at 17 - Magners cider.

AllWasWell · 09-08-2012 10:05PM

16 - West Coast Cooler
that was my first drink in a pub, had drank a few glasses of wine here at there since i was about 14

tinyk68 · 09-08-2012 10:10PM

I was 16 and had 3 bottles of Stag at my friend's sister's 21st. Couldn't understand why everything was spinning.
Ah the innocence of youth.

Please Kill Me · 09-08-2012 10:12PM

I was 14, got into The Oval in Dublin and had a few pints of Furstenberg. 3 pints for a fiver it was!!!

crazy cabbage · 09-08-2012 10:24PM

about five and it was wiskey

Put that on you tooth they said. That will clear up the pain and knock you out so we can get some sleep

marshbaboon · 09-08-2012 10:41PM

babymanval wrote: »

Bar some shandy watching USA '94 at 11 years old with some older lads, my first time was 14 years old... Anyone remember Woodys? They marked the inception of Alcopops here in 1997 or so. They were so sickly and thick!! I remember gettin sick strawberry dinner chunks out my nose a few weekends in a row once we found some lads to go off licence for us.

A quick google tells me that some places in the UK still sell lemon/lime Woodys! *Shudders*

Oh god I remember them. Toilet duck & sugar.

partyatmygaff · 10-08-2012 12:48AM

the_syco wrote: »

Have you tried cider, and/or spirits?/

It's not so much the taste of the drinks as it is the taste of the alcohol itself. It's an acquired taste (Much like coffee) that I just can't see myself ever liking.

In fact, I'd say most drinks would taste very nice if it wasn't for the alcohol content.

ziggy23 · 10-08-2012 12:58AM

13 and this cheap sh*t http://www.bumwine.com/bumwine/thunderbird.jpg

Wompa1 · 10-08-2012 01:01AM

I think the would Ireland have better athlete if the GAA didn't exist should be changed to would Ireland have better athletes if it's young people stayed off the hooch.

My towns soccer team were champions for years on end until Under 16's. All of the top players started going out on the piss on Friday nights instead

Pace2008 · 10-08-2012 03:26PM

ziggy23 wrote: »

13 and this cheap sh*t http://www.bumwine.com/bumwine/thunderbird.jpg

I became homeless just looking at that.

foxyboxer · 10-08-2012 03:37PM

17, pint of Budweiser in the old Western Star pub in UCC, first year college.

Still have a fondness for a pint of Bud, despite it tasting like a bum's piss..

Jaxxy · 10-08-2012 03:42PM

I was 12 and I had a white wine spritzer with my Sunday dinner.

blue note · 10-08-2012 04:01PM

I think I had a small glass of champagne for the millenium. I'd have been 13. First time "drinking" I'd have been 15 or 16. Two and a half cans of Samsons extra strong cider. One and a half would have been plenty!

blaze1 · 10-08-2012 04:05PM

14. White lightning. £1.20 for a litre. Now sold as industrial paint stripper.

Vicar in a tutu · 10-08-2012 04:31PM

blaze1 wrote: »

14. White lightning. £1.20 for a litre. Now sold as industrial paint stripper.

That's potent! drank 4 cans of it or something and violently died for the day:(

Alter-Ego · 10-08-2012 04:43PM

In a field on Paddy's day, naggins and Smirnoff Ice. The Classic.

Loopy · 10-08-2012 04:47PM

13 - can of piss Ritz.

ScumLord · 10-08-2012 04:49PM

10 - Half a magnum bottle of blue nun. Still can't drink white wine to this day.

Useful.Idiot · 10-08-2012 04:51PM

oh the memories of Hackenborg, Tuborg and Dutch Gold - The Holy Trinity of underage knacker drinking.

Bobby42 · 10-08-2012 04:55PM

15. 6 cans of Tuborg on Junoir Cert night. Got caught by the Gards though. They took the rest of my cans and threatened to arrest me. It scared the bejaysus out of me.

Sea Filly · 10-08-2012 06:13PM

LizT wrote: »

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. It was horrible too.

FYP. :pac:

Sunnyisland · 10-08-2012 07:37PM

First drink taken as far as I recall I was about 12/13,I was at a party in a cousin's house and I sneaked a few bottles of harp out the back,maybe 2 or 3,The next day my eldest sister asked me was I drinking last night and I said yes,She says how much can you hold and me thinking that meant how much I could carry i answered about 3/4 six packs,.....she was impressed :-)

Miss Lockhart · 10-08-2012 07:53PM

I was allowed a glass of wine with my dinner from about age 12.

After that it was vodka (a 500ml coke bottle 50:50 coke and vodka) at Slane when I was 15. I got very slightly tipsy but I was grand.

10-08-2012 08:28PM

6. yep 6. da got me drunk on harp. he was only 23. immature little b*****ks!!
smoked my first smoke at 6 also. in my communion dress.

not a scrote, honest. if you saw me now you would never believe it!!
sensible 30 something;)

HowAreWe · 10-08-2012 10:40PM

13 - Dutch Gold

stay classy

keith16 · 10-08-2012 11:39PM

When I was 4 or 5 I was at a wake. So I was sitting by the table with all the drinks on it and not really knowing what was going on. I did see a bottle of 7-up and a glass beside it that contained a transparent liquid that I thought was 7-up. But of course it was vodka. I thought I was going to die.