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

[Rogero]

Light and bitter.

 

[Hiney]

1975, aged 15 in The Bedford in Bognor Regis. Watneys Red Barrel was the tipple of choice.

As I got older I moved on to lager and then when Holsten Pils came in, it opened the door to stronger stuff.

Happy days



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[Ludensian Gull]

1976, I was mainly drinking Ben Truman , my drink of choice .

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

King & Barnes Sussex Bitter. Far better than the mud water from Lewes

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

I fell across the DJ’s decks after the semi finals in 83 and was asked to leave......

that made me laugh

I think every party I went to around that time

they'ed be a little record player stuck away in the corner

but someone would always manage to collapse on top of it

 

[sams dad]

1969 Watneys Special Bitter

 

[Official Old Man]

My first ever pint was in the Station Pub next to Hove station. Still remember to this day the guy buying the round asked what I wanted, "same as you" was my reply and my first taste of alcohol was a pint of lager around 1972.
Mid 70's my local was the Greyhound in Keymer where many a Thursday & Sunday was spent. £2 would get me 8 pints of Watneys Starlight. Just looked it up and it was only 3%. No wonder I drove home most nights!

 

[Horses Arse]

Ramrod and special or other light and bitter. Southern comfort as a short for some unfathomable reason. Not touched it since an excess with it 33 years ago

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[peterward]

Snakebite and black.

That were me, in the roll neck and blazer down the the top rank suite looking like a poor man's Rick Astley.

 

[Seasidesage]

Someone brought me a pint in the Queens Head coming back from Palace in 76. I was 11 and looked about 7 Took me about an hour to drink it but I remember how excited I was. The Queens Head became my local a couple of years after that on the basis that they would serve anyone!!!

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Pint of mild at the Thatched Inn in Hassocks in 1961.

If my memory serves, the landlord was called Robin Hood!

 

[Barrow Boy]

Half of Mild, I used to go to Courthope youthclub (1967/70) in Mile Oak, one night about 8 of us (all about 16) snuck into a crowded bar of The Stag's Head trying to look 18.

 

[smiler]

Watneys Special at The Swan at Falmer . 2/6 a pint!

 

[cheshunt seagull]

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Probably this, but I started young.

I think I started with Ben Truman and it would have been around 1975. Seem to remember it being 20-25p a pint.

 

[Razmertaz]

Tennents exra, in the Snipe.

 

[Brother Sid]

Theakstones Old Peculiar at the Quadrant in Queens Rd, or possibly a Stingo (Barley Wine) followed by a vomit out in the road.

 

[Kosh]

Strongbow, Hooch, Woodpecker, and gin - in that order. I was later sick. I think I may have smoked a Hamlet Classic too... Legendary.

Yeah ... maybe not.

 

[Sussexscots]

Guinness at a pub in the South of Ireland when I was fifteen.

Interesting......

 

[Gwylan]

Some type of lager - Heineken, Carling or Harp or such nonsense. I do remember my first drink was in The Hollingbury, I was 16 and hid behind a crowd.

My dad found out that I'd been drinking it, told me it was rubbish and marched me off to The Swan at Falmer and bought me a pint of Harveys. I never looked back since, it's still my favourite pint

 

[Albion my Albion]

A breath of fresh air until I had to go to the loo right after Tom H P.P. went poo in the loo.