[Drinking] What did you drink when you first hit the pub

[Stat Brother]

I remember buying, actually standing at the bar paying with my own cash, Hofbrau lager, which my local had on draft.

 

[Madafwo]

Snakebite and black.

This.

Was £2.50 a pint at Shakespeare's Head just off Western Road. A tenner had me wrecked as I might not have been 18 at the time.

Rock night at the Gloucester used to be £2 a pint so I'd add a shot of Vodka that was 50p to make it an even £5 a time.

 

[Silverhatch]

Bought my first ever pint in Henekeys aged 15 (and a quarter). Courage Best (bright).

 

[Silverhatch]

First ever pint of Harveys in The Swan Lewes aged 17

 

[jackanada]

Snakebite black double vodka and Pernod.
Great start to any drinking session.

 

[Mackenzie]

This.

Was £2.50 a pint at Shakespeare's Head just off Western Road. A tenner had me wrecked as I might not have been 18 at the time.

Rock night at the Gloucester used to be £2 a pint so I'd add a shot of Vodka that was 50p to make it an even £5 a time.

A group of us used to go to Hove dogs on Thursday evenings in the late 80s, all of us underage. One of the sixth formers in our college worked the bar and turned a blind eye to us young un's getting smashed.

I still have a pint every now and then, I quite like it.

 

[clockend1983]

1978 The Cleveland in Cleveland Road
Half a larger and lime bought by Dad under instruction from mum

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

King & Barnes best bitter in Horsham, circa 1974/75.

Then discovered the delights of their Old Ale... Pints of K&B Old and Bitter aka 'Mother-in-Law'.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Mild ale with an occasional rum and black.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Toby Light just sh*te

 

[clapham_gull]

Harveys 4 pints, 15 years old in a pub in Hawkhurst.

Threw it all up on someone's front lawn.

Do I win ?

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Carling

 

[vegster]

Worthington E and McEwans Tartan, Watney's Red Barrel was widely available but I avoided it like the plague, also rattling around when I started was Double Diamond, Christ, beer drinking was shit back then !

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Whitehawk pub 1973
3 pints of lager £1.00 or
4 pints of mild £1.00

Then ride my brand new Yamaha 175 trail back home to Coldean

 

[Chicken Run]

Snake Bite & Black
Hurlimans

 

[Winker]

Whitbread Brown Ale - Junction Inn, Polegate. Around 1973. I was 16 and my brother and his mates were 17.

 

[Bodian]

Mild & Bitter in the Ship Inn, Southwick. Then 'graduated' to Watneys....

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Bottles of Holsten Pils...

I was 16 and got served in a working mens club. Lots of them.

It didn't end well for me and I woke up with my legs in my pyjama top and my arms in my pyjama bottoms, banging headache, to find my Mum and Dad had to kick the front door in to gain access to their own home as I'd locked the door after me when I staggered in and left the keys in there..

 

[Live by the sea]

Gin and tonic . Didn’t have all the fancy gin’s or tonic waters to choose from when I first went to a pub . Well actually it was a big wine bar / restaurant in Frith street, Soho

 

[marlowe]

Worthington E and McEwans Tartan, Watney's Red Barrel was widely available but I avoided it like the plague, also rattling around when I started was Double Diamond, Christ, beer drinking was shit back then !

Did you drink in the old Adur pub (later called the Blue Lagoon, now the Gather Inn) on Hove seafront near The Lagoon. Worthington E and Double Diamond are what I started on in there (under age) 33p a pint.

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