QOTD 2012: The Smell of Fear

[MissKitty]

QOTD: What was your first ever alcoholic drink, and would you still drink it now?

[foolsgold]

It would either be communion wine or a sip from my grandpa's PBR when my mom wasn't looking.  I'd give pretty much anything to have grandpa furtively hand me a can of beer while sitting on his patio on a warm summer evening.  Since PBR made a comeback in recent years, I have allowed myself to drink two cans and both times, it tasted like being a kid again.  It was a really nice feeling.

[frizgolf]

First taste was like FG's experience. It was a sip from a beer can on the coffee table when I was a kid.
First full drink? Vodka and OJ screwdrivers in the park by the local United Dairy Farmers. I don't think I've had one since those underage get-togethers in the park. Too drunk. You know how you avoid stuff that once made ya hurl?

[The Hegemo]

My dad let me try a couple sips of beer when I was little. IIRC, he mostly drank Wiedemann. I'd drink it today if it still existed, but I don't believe it does.

First real drinks were vodka and coke in high school. I don't like either of those ingredients now, so I would not drink it. Especially not if the vodka had green food coloring in it and was in a mini-Scope bottle in order to be smuggled into Bogart's. 

[MissKitty]

Mine was also similar. I had a really bad cold/congestion when I was around 5-6 years old, and my mom made me a hot toddy with a little bit of whiskey in it. It helped loosen the congestion, and also loosened up my legs til I couldn't walk straight. My dad was horrified and forbade mom from giving it to me ever again.

[Homsar]

Various small sips of wine.  First full drink was Stella draft.  Didn't like it.

[Dan]

I had sips of my dad's beer as a kid. At first I liked it because it was a little bit salty but later in my childhood I remember despising the taste.

As a late teenager I'm sure I had a beer here or there, but I specifically recall drinking White Russians (b/c of the Dude, of course) at a party and I feel like that was really my first "drink".

I still have them from time to time and they are still deelish.

[Atzend]

Similar to others it was probably one of the occasions where I asked to try a sip of PBR or Miller Lite while the extended family sat around my grandma's kitchen table playing Tripoly.  I remember liking it better as a kid than I did when I was older. Unfortunately, I never acquired the beer drinking gene. 

First notable time as a teenager was Mike's Hard Lemonade riding back from the local fair listening to Clarence Carter. I would take it over a beer, but then again I would take a cup of coffee over any alcoholic beverage at this point in time.

[Rafe]

My old man used to pass me a beer as a kid to drink the froth from the top. Around the same time, an old, lovely nutcase regular called Bob used to sneak me his pint of Benskins to quaff when my old man was at the bar buying me a coke.

As a teenager, it was with the lads on a saturday lunchtime in Stevenage when we were 13. the tipple was Tennent's Super T, and it tastes like shit.

[Ella Minnow Pea]

First alcohol was crème de menthe on vanilla ice cream. It's still good!

If I remember correctly, my first sip of alcohol was beer when we were at the beach when I was 4 or 5. Later in childhood I'd taste my dad's Jack and coke, which I still drink. My first glass of alcohol was a small glass of wine provided by my parents in high school. I still drink wine, although very rarely. I'd much rather have something with hard liquor.

[Poolio]

Genny Cream Ale

And, no, I would most certainly not drink it again.

[va_vacious]

Mine was probably the crème de menthe on vanilla ice cream, too. And then some sips of wine. I don't remember drinking the jack and coke, though.

My first drink would have been some sort of slushie with rum or jack or something in it.  It was New Year's Eve at my friend's house, and her parents had it. I had some (it was tasty!) and she judged me for the next three years over it. (Mind you, she ended up-voluntarily- at an extremely conservative Christian college, so I should have known!)

The first time I remember purchasing alcohol was when I got Ella to buy a six-pack of Zima for me on the way to a party! 

[Cockney Rebel]

Like many others here I was sneaked a sip of beer or wine when I was very little. I think my first 'grown-up' tipple - maybe 14 or 15 years old - which I drank for some time afterwards was Bacardi & Blackcurrant. (Or, as I would call it now, Rum & Ribena)

[Rafe]

crème de menthe

Just reading those three words makes my stomach howl! When I was in my late teens and still playing rugby, we used to take the same drink as a first pint after every home game in the clubhouse, and I hated it. It was called a "Green Monster", and was made up of half a Kronenbourg, half a strong cider, with a double of the menthe in for colour and maximum intestine curdling. I always decked it in one and made sure I had a normal beer on hand to mask the taste, lest I hurled.

Looking back on it all, Rugby is rubbish, really.

[trixi]

Beer as a small child (which I would not drink now), rum and coke as a pre-teen (which I would drink now, but it wouldn't be the first choice)