Fill in the blank: My first taste of an alcoholic beverage was ___________.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: A sip of my dear departed aunt Faye’s Schlitz. I was about five or six. She also let me take a puff of her Lucky Strike.

[hlthe2b]

1. My Dad's beer. Schlitz was a definite possibility or maybe Hamms

I used to love the Hamms Beer ads with the bears.

[El Supremo]

9. ...

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[hlthe2b]

11. Wow... That's an oldie goldie! I did love the bears!

[multigraincracker]

2. Oh crap, are you my

Nephew Buddy?

[mucifer]

3. Passover. I was about 6 years old and my brothers and cousins put wine in my grape juice.

I got a little bit tipsy. They laughed. It's a good family story.

[Walleye]

4. Gordon's gin. First year in college. Drinking age in New York State was 18

[Piasladic]

5. with a redneck, neighbor girl with her father's mostly empty can: cheap beer that was out in the sun

horrible...I can't drink lager to this day.

[House of Roberts]

6. Old Hickory Bourbon Whiskey.

Poured it out of my mom's bottle, made up the difference with water, which she always added to it anyway, then let the ice melt so it was even more watered down by the end of a glass of it.

[flor-de-jasmim]

7. 6th grade - friends and I made a really mixed drink:

Singapore Sling + Grasshopper + Vermouth + Pink Lady + a few more -- just a bit from each of the bottles of my parents' supplies!

[El Supremo]

8. I guess some wine at a holiday.

It may have been Manischewitz and we weren't Jewish.

[LakeArenal]

10. Oh gawd. A friend and I each filled a mason jar with a bit out of each bottle at home.

With two mason jars of whopatoolie and went to a movie.

I was so sick I don't drink that much today.

I find it hard to believe anyone like the taste of drinks. And.. Mr Lake drinks moonshine every evening. 🤢 ☠️

[alwaysinasnit]

12. I was 6 years old and got into my mom's Spanada wine.

[CanonRay]

13. Beer, probably Pabst

[csziggy]

14. Hard sauce - Mom made it with rum and powdered sugar

Maybe a splash of vanilla. Mom only served it with mincemeat pie and the great aunt I am named after loved both. Mom never told her the recipe since great aunt was a tea totaler.

If you're talking straight booze, Mom & Dad would have martinis every night and when we were little let us have a sip if we begged. Of course, at that young age none of us kids liked it. In fact, I never developed a taste for martinis. I think the hard sauce set me up since my favorite drink in college was cuba libre - rum & coke with a bit of lime.

[Scrivener7]

20. Wouldn't be Christmas without plum pudding and hard sauce!

[csziggy]

26. We never had plum pudding - I guess it was not part of our family culture

Mom had to learn to make mincemeat pie since it was not part of her Alabama heritage. But she was a wonderful cook - and the hard sauce made just about anything taste better.

Dad's family that was from Upper Peninsula Michigan were the ones that were used to mincemeat pie. I am not sure if it came from my Welsh great grandfather, his wife's Scots Canadian family, or from my grandmother's New York roots. Heck, the Cornish pasties my mother had to learn to make were not a family thing but learned from the miners in the UP.

[Corgigal]

15. Strawberry Boones Farms...

cause wasn’t almost everybody’s?

[MLAA]

28. Hah! Me too. I think I was 16 or 17.

That takes me back!

https://www.winetoship.com/boone-s-farm-strawberry-hill.html

[Corgigal]

38. Good times,

Might have hung together...back in the day.

[MLAA]

42. I mostly enjoy occasional beer these days but I came across Stella Rosa sparkling peach wine!

I tried it and Sweet and sparkly! I won’t say it made me feel 16 again, but it did shave off a few years!

[applegrove]

16. A sip of wine at dinner. First time drunk 16 with some other kids at a swimming pond. I loved it.

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I was painfully shy. Alcohol allowed me to connect for a few minutes. I miss it but am fully aware I no longer drink for fun... I drink to forget horrible trauma when i was 30+ and have no power over alcohol.

[EYESORE 9001]

17. I too was 5 or 6, but the beer was Oertels '92

The uncle whose beer I stole had rosy cheeks like this character, along with an enormous schnozzola that appeared to be sculpted from raw ground beef.

[peacefreak2.0]

18. My brother took me out to the

local underage place and ordered me a Singapore Sling. Or two. I returned the favor by christening his VW on the way home.

[Scrivener7]

19. My grandmother used to put bourbon on our gums when we were teething.

[Archae]

21. I was 2 or three.

I saw a mixed drink on a table, and drank it.

My Mom said I turned beet red and screamed.

I was ok, but the alcohol in the drink sure did burn.

[bahboo]

22. a sip of my uncle's Drewry's beer. when I was 6 or 7...

thought it was bitter and awful. Probably the last time I thought that haha....

[Shermann]

23. I had a few sip of Dad's beer which I can't recall

The first buzz that I do recall was from Jack Daniels.

[viva la]

24. Boone's Farm Apple Wine

god spare me.

11th grade

[Sogo]

25. ...a sip of my Dad's beer at a family reunion of

all my Grandpa's German brothers and sisters. I was very young, like 5 or 6, and I was so shocked at the taste (expecting it to be sweet like soda pop) that I grimaced, the beer went up my nose, and all the men who were sitting around my Dad enjoying their cold beers on that hot Sunday afternoon had a good laugh. The experience cured me from every wanting to drink alcoholic beverages, and I still don't to this day....

[MyOwnPeace]

27. If you had a temperature or a cough.......

Mom would make you take a shot of "Four Roses." (Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey)

To this day I will refuse to join in on 'taking a shot' for ANY reason!

[FakeNoose]

29. I was probably about 5 years old

Either it was my Grandpa giving us grandchildren a small glass of wine (maybe 3 ounces) at a family Sunday dinner. Or it was my Dad letting me have a sip of his beer, which was probably a Busch Bavarian.

Actually all of us kids used to fight over who would get to bring Dad's beer, because the lucky winner would get a sip of beer. There were always a lot of kids willing to do this - I was the oldest of 9.

[Chipper Chat]

30. My first beer in 1959 was.....

Either Sterling, Hudepohl, or Falls City.

[lapfog_1]

31. a sip of my dad's "Salty Dog" drink

when I was maybe 7 or 8.

[WhiteTara]

32. champagne. It was at a very very fancy wedding

and my sister and I (aged 7 and 4) were darlings of the bride and groom so we were allowed to freely intermingle with all the wedding guests. My mother told the waiter we could have a tiny amount in a glass. She neglected to say only one glass, so the waiter continued to fill our glasses only that tiny amount multiple times. I don't remember if there was a hangover involved or just lots of sleep.

[catbyte]

33. My dad's dandelion wine when I was 8.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. Miller Pony in 1973

[captain queeg]

35. Probably Strohs. My family didn't drink but had a couple brothers in law who did

They’d bring beer with them when they came over. One drank Strohs, one drank Rolling Rock. My BIL asked me to bring him a beer and I thought I’d be nice and bring it on the rocks. Didn’t work too well. One of those times I took a sip, probably 9 or 10. I didn’t like it and didn’t acquire a taste for beer till I got out of HS.

[Wolf Frankula]

36. Either Old Style at Comiskey Park

Or my grandfather's home made sagardo, I forget which.

Wolf

[TreasonousBastard]

37. I was told that when a toddler I got drunk eating the cherries...

from the Manhattans at family gatherings.

[LenaBaby61]

39. I've never tasted alcohol in my life...

I'd have probably started if tRump had been successful in stealing the 2020 general election.

I've been a strict vegan going on 35 years, so that's saying something.

[flotsam2]

40. Ummm,

Is "delicious" an inappropriate answer?

[DEbluedude]

41. Baltimore's best back in the day.

[Ocelot II]

43. Bourbon. I thought it tasted like some kind of industrial chemical.

Still do. I still think it's awful.

[electric_blue68]

46. Oh, I like bourbon vs regular whiskey...

much alcohol tastes "industrial" to me so there's a lot I've never tried.

I like black, or white russians, Pina colada, champagne, white wine, rose, maybe a dry red. The only beers I ever liked were ?Xing Zhao, and a Samuel Addams Lite Summer Ale.
But now with meds can only have a sip or two here and there. But it was fun while it lasted.

[Tomconroy]

44. My first taste of an alcoholic beverage was....

definitely not my last.

[electric_blue68]

45. probably a sip of wine (underaged) at a extended family gathering

[Kali]

47. foam from Dad and Grandfather's beers

summers by Grampa's pool. same age as you.