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

[Biscuit Barrel]

Kronenburg 1664 in the Hove Park Tavern before Albion games. Started drinking around 1994.

 

[afcb]

81 ish Whitbread Best

8 pints on a Friday night and you were slightly mullered..just slightly.

 

[MTSeagulls]

Skol seemed everywhere back then, I do believe Skol means 'cheers' in Danish, however I think it was south American.

It was Scottish I believe but now everywhere here in Brazil.

 

[Silverhatch]

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!

That'd be The Cliftonville. Was it a promotion party 71-72 or a relegation-wake 72-73?

 

[Deleted member 2719]

It was Scottish I believe but now everywhere here in Brazil.

Could well be, the pub where I drank most of the stuff had a Scottish publican, he probably had some kickback deal going on!

 

[rippleman]

Brown & Mild at the Crown & Anchor and Springfield pubs

 

[Knightsworld]

Holsten Export in The Stanley Portslade in 1987 (underage of course), I then swapped to Watneys special bitter, because it was about 15p a pint cheaper. Have drunk bitter ever since.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

1978 and it was a Light & Bitter (based on the fact that we thought we had more chance of getting served as it looked like a big boys drink)

1980-84 Gin & Bitter lemon (odd phase, think I lost my way a bit here)

1984-00 Lager

2000-15 Bitter (mainly Harvey's)

2015 onwards (confused, sometimes Amstel, sometimes Bitter, occassionally red wine and Guinness (not in the same glass))

 

[SK1NT]

A guiness ... About 1995

 

[Hampden Park]

light and bitter initially

 

[Albion_Dave]

Tennants Extra in 1984 at the Ocean Wave.

.98p per pint & had no idea how strong it was

 

[Cian]

Amstel and Labatt were both being heavily promoed back then so usually whichever of those were cheapest

Not only would I not drink them now (well, Amstel in the Netherlands is fine) but neither of them are even sold here anymore.

Moved on to Carlsberg when those two started to be unavailable a lot; its brewed locally and is higher ABV than the UK version.


And now I'm too old to drink lager much at all as it screws up my stomach, so its mostly the new-ish local brewery who have a very nice session IPA that's on tap nearly everywhere nearby *and* sold in Lidl in bottles.

 

[Stat Brother]

Watneys Red Barrel, underage in a grim backstreet pub in Dover

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 !

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Dunno about you guys but atm if I put that on I'd look like I swallowed the barrel whole, as well.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

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Dunno about you guys but atm if I put that on I'd look like I swallowed the barrel whole, as well.

Yep, my six pack looks more like a party seven!

 

[Brighthelmstone]

Guinness, my reasoning at the time was that no self respecting young lad would order it, therefore they would think i'm older than i looked! In hindsight it didn't often work, and when it did i ended up with a pint that i couldn't stand!
These days i love Guinness and real ale... god i feel old!

 

[MTSeagulls]

Mine was a pint of Hunter's Cider in County Limerick bought when I was 16.
I remember the bar staff laughing amongst themselves a bit about me going in a pub alone and ordering a drink.

 

[lost in hampshire]

Early seventies at the Globe in Wick pint of light and lime. That was when you could get a pint bottle of light ale. The thought of lime in light ale turns my stomach now.

 

[Jaxie]

Guinness, my reasoning at the time was that no self respecting young lad would order it, therefore they would think i'm older than i looked! In hindsight it didn't often work, and when it did i ended up with a pint that i couldn't stand!
These days i love Guinness and real ale... god i feel old!

Yep, I was always Guinness. Or even John smiths (as anything other than Carling, fosters etc). I still occasionally crave Guinness, although I wouldn’t touch John Smiths now. But back then there was hardly any choice in the local pub. In fairness, I began drinking there around age 15 so couldn’t really complain.

 

[bobby baxter]

Charringtons brown and mild, Whitehawk Inn, 1965. Under age of course.

 

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