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    Leftover warm Heineken at the bottom of a bottle. After a dinner party thrown by my parents. Snuck a little swig while the grownups were outside saying goodbye. I must have been 9 or 10-yo. Tasted like snakebite. Just awful.

    Didn’t go near beer till midway through college.

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    I had a deal with my Dad. If I get him a beer, he’ll give me the first sip. I remember it being gross. 🤢

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    MGD (Miller genuine draft) when I was Six.

    Dad puts water down and I’m always allowed to drink from it, he always had super chilled water with ice. It always tasted good.

    He put this thing down, it was ice cold so I took my normal two gulps. He comes back from the bathroom and yells at my older brother asking if he took a drink of his beer. “No, I hate the taste of beer”

    Looks down at me with a giant ass grin on my face.

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    A sip of red wine the adults said was the blood of a man who lived about 2,000 years ago.

    First sip aside from magic ceremonies, a cold beer alongside a ham sandwich while working outside. Probably an american lager like Coors or Bud Light.

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    Budweiser in the middle of the night at a party on the shore of Lake Cumberland in Kentucky.

    The party was great, but the “beer” was so thoroughly disgusting that I have not drunk it since and that was 35 years ago.

    Life is too short to drink bad beer.

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      At seventeen, I drank several beers to see if I could get used to the awful taste. The answer turned out to be “no”. It put me off alcohol for life.

      I have tried various a lot of different drinks, but I have never found anything alcoholic that I actually like. I am now in my 60’s and I’m perfectly happy with not drinking.

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        I’m in my middle 50’s. There are alcoholic drinks I do like, but Miller and Budweiser and not among them. The wife and I will have wine, typically a Malbac or Chianti, with dinner a few times a month, then I’ll use the rest of the bottle to cook with. My local liquor store has a great selection of beers that you can mix and match. I usually pick up a 6 pack, especially when Dopplebocks are in season. A local brewery here has a “Dark Dopplebock” that is really good. Those 6 will sit in my fridge over the next several months until I slowly get to them.

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    Yukon Jack at 14.

    Fucking disgusting.

    My cousins and I made some drink one year at a New Years party when we found ourselves alone in the kitchen. I don’t remember the booze, but we mixed it with juicy juice. I was 12. I sipped the cup being passed around us 6-7 cousins, but none of us drank enough for effect.

    Two years later it was yukon jack with friends. I remember falling asleep in the park.

    The first time I got “wasted” I was 17. I don’t fucking remember what we were drinking. I do remember I party fouled the bowl of weed being passed around though lol

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    Grandad let me have a taste of whiskey when I was a kitten, maybe five or six. I didn’t like it.

    Mom took me on a vacation to NYC a few months after my 21st birthday. Had a rum&coke during an off-Broadway showing of Spamalot. It was acceptable.

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    I think it was a bottle of Miller draft, dad let me have a sip when I was 15 or so. It tasted so gross I stayed away from beer and alcohol until well into my 20’s, I just couldn’t understand why people drank that stuff.

    Eventually realized not all beer tastes the same haha.

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        To this day, I always wonder about the boots who actually bought stuff for my crew of teenaged degenerates. We almost always cold approached strangers around the liquor store, and always found at least one person within (on average) 30 minutes.

        It was actually kinda rare for someone to take a cut too (though did happen occasionally). I know I don’t fuck with that as an adult now, the fines are pretty severe (and were back then too).

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    My dad let me taste a tiny amount of some forgettable beer when I was a teen. I didn’t really like it and didn’t actually start drinking until I was 22 (largely because of rampant alcoholism on all sides of my family)

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    Whiskey (Wild Turkey I think) when I was teething. I know I was told to rub it on the gums of my siblings being the oldest. First I got drunk on was moonshine when I was 8. Cool step uncle used to give me cigarettes, booze and weed. I kept an eye on his still and weed plants out in the woods.