| Introduction to the demon drink 08:58 - Mar 21 with 2473 views | DaBurgh |
Typical international break thread alert.
I got hold of a Coors beer a while back and it got me thinking about my early years drinking habits.
The drinking age in PA. was 21 so we had to rely on older friends or smuggling trips under cover of night into West Virginia.
Being from Pittsburgh my first beers were Iron City, Rolling rock, Pabst and Coors when I could get hold of it, Coors wasn't sold east of the Mississippi in my day.
Gnats pi$$, all of 'em.
After moving to London a friend of mine told me that with American beers you went straight from drinking to hang over without the fun bit in the middle, very true.
The summer after my high school graduation I hung around with a more sophisticated group, we drank cheap crap soda pop wine.
Boones farm, TJ Swann, Ripple, Bali Hai and if we really wanted to get wasted we'd break out the Thunderbird.
Ah to be 18 again.
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 09:15 - Mar 21 with 1883 views | TheChef |
First properly pissed/hungover one NYE when I was about 16. Kronenbourg. Not really been able to drink the stuff since. |  |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 09:15 - Mar 21 with 1882 views | colinallcars |
I gave up drinking when beer went up to a farthing a pint. |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 09:25 - Mar 21 with 1845 views | Lblock |
Hoffmeister and Castlemaine XXXX were my first forays into pub drinking I think.
Before that it was nicking the old fella's Double Diamond, SKOL or Kaltenburg.
Not the memories I wanted this morning with a stinking hangover caused by embalming last night with poor quality Madri in a West end boozer |  |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 09:35 - Mar 21 with 1796 views | terryb |
I started with Mackeson. As the advert said:-
It looks good
It tastes good
And by golly
It does you good
Many pregnant woman were instructed ro drink this by their GP's! |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 10:45 - Mar 21 with 1690 views | GaryHaddock |
I don't remember the age or what it was, but I was sick in some poor woman's back seat map pocket and my own shoes on the way back from the football club. |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:17 - Mar 21 with 1595 views | johann28 |
First beer was a pint of John Smith's in some dive in Scunthorpe. I was 14 (they didn't care in them days) and it cost 30p. It was so disgusting that I couldn't understand why grown men would want to tip the stuff by the vat load down their gullets. Other local favourites included 'half and half' (half bitter, half lager mixed) and lager and lime, both of which were vomit-inducing.
When I told them, a couple of years later, that I was moving back to London many sneered, saying that 'all the beer down South' was terrible etc.
I instinctively knew they were talking crap, and I quickly made up for lost time. One of many favourite watering holes was the Duke of Clarence in Whitehall (still there, but now a Young's place) which did Ruddles County, one of the finest ales in the kingdom then (it got taken over by Greene King, which ruined it, but that's another tale). When it went up to £1 a pint I thought the world had ended. |  | | |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:33 - Mar 21 with 1525 views | FDC |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:17 - Mar 21 by johann28 |
First beer was a pint of John Smith's in some dive in Scunthorpe. I was 14 (they didn't care in them days) and it cost 30p. It was so disgusting that I couldn't understand why grown men would want to tip the stuff by the vat load down their gullets. Other local favourites included 'half and half' (half bitter, half lager mixed) and lager and lime, both of which were vomit-inducing.
When I told them, a couple of years later, that I was moving back to London many sneered, saying that 'all the beer down South' was terrible etc.
I instinctively knew they were talking crap, and I quickly made up for lost time. One of many favourite watering holes was the Duke of Clarence in Whitehall (still there, but now a Young's place) which did Ruddles County, one of the finest ales in the kingdom then (it got taken over by Greene King, which ruined it, but that's another tale). When it went up to £1 a pint I thought the world had ended. |
I remember when the two pound coin came out we called them "beer tokens". Hard to believe now |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:38 - Mar 21 with 1515 views | DaBurgh |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:17 - Mar 21 by johann28 |
First beer was a pint of John Smith's in some dive in Scunthorpe. I was 14 (they didn't care in them days) and it cost 30p. It was so disgusting that I couldn't understand why grown men would want to tip the stuff by the vat load down their gullets. Other local favourites included 'half and half' (half bitter, half lager mixed) and lager and lime, both of which were vomit-inducing.
When I told them, a couple of years later, that I was moving back to London many sneered, saying that 'all the beer down South' was terrible etc.
I instinctively knew they were talking crap, and I quickly made up for lost time. One of many favourite watering holes was the Duke of Clarence in Whitehall (still there, but now a Young's place) which did Ruddles County, one of the finest ales in the kingdom then (it got taken over by Greene King, which ruined it, but that's another tale). When it went up to £1 a pint I thought the world had ended. |
When I first came to London I would drink 'light and lager' probably because I saw some local order it and I thought I would make me very British. | |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:49 - Mar 21 with 1485 views | dsw2509 |
My uncle bought me a pint of Youngs Ordinary in that pub behind Selhurst Park. I would have been around 14.
Schooldays in Hammersmith meant it was mostly London Pride after that. | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:53 - Mar 21 with 1475 views | PlanetHonneywood |
I was a sickly child, who spent a lot of time in hospital what with one thing and another. I was also always ill and was quite skinny.
That was until my dad went back to see his dad in Tipperary one time when I was aged 4 (four), and returned with some grandad advice. Drink a sherry glass of Guinness and the top o'the milk three times a day!
For the next three years, at breakfast, after returning from school, and before bed, this was my thrice daily elixir.
I only met my paternal grandfather once, ironically in his local in Mullinahone, Co. Tipp. When he entered the pub there I was, sat on top of a stool at the bar. To be honest, I was a bit miffed that instead of sharing a pint of the black stuff with the ol' fella, an uncle bought me this red thing that he and the barman insisted was lemonade!
I genuinely believe I owe my existence to Guinness, cream and while in hospital, where the matrons wouldn't allow me a drop of the black stuff, lucozade and grapes! |  |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 12:17 - Mar 21 with 1441 views | willesdenr |
First beer was from a quart bottle of Truman's brown ale a friend (he looked older than the rest of us) got from the offy at the Rising Sun, Harlesden Road, Willesden. When I could pass for 18 drank light and bitter in the Rising Sun. The odd Saturday evening we'd frequent the pubs up at Hampstead Heath and finish up in the Galtymore, Cricklewood Broadway where the bar stayed open until 2 in the morning. | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 12:50 - Mar 21 with 1360 views | daveB |
At Christmas as kids in the mid 80's my Nan and Grandad used to make me and my sister snowballs with Advocaat and lemonade, used to love it and at new year they would give us both 3 or 4 of them and we'd strangley fall alsleep quite quickly. Only realised how much booze was in them when i went round in my 20's and they made me one with my response being "Isn't this a kids drink" to which they laughed at me a lot
Didn't drink really in my teens, went to a mates 18th birthday drinks and was on pepsi all night but a mate was spiking it with vodka, i worked it out straight away but as my mates were happily paying for these drinks all night I went along and acted all shocked at the end of the night when I was rat arsed.
Only started drinking beer in my 20's which probably explains why i put on several stone once i got the taste for it |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:10 - Mar 21 with 1311 views | Paddyhoops |
Was 15 . Pints of lager top . 4 pints , 20 major , price of the dance hall , then chips afterwards . All for under a fiver . There was four days in the weekend for the next twenty years .
Family and the dreaded hangovers put paid to it all.
Still enjoy the odd few pints of Guinness though . | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:47 - Mar 21 with 1227 views | ted_hendrix |
Used to have regular heavy drinking sessions In Germany whilst stationed there In the Army.
Amstel and Heineken were the beer at the time, start drinking Friday night and go right through to Sunday night.
Drinking heavily caused me so much grief and money over the years, one hungover morning Mrs Ted gave me the ''stare'' and to cut a long story short from that day (mid 80's) to this day today I have been thankfully teetotal, and that's how It will stay.
Anyone fancy a pint? |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:51 - Mar 21 with 1217 views | colinallcars |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:47 - Mar 21 by ted_hendrix |
Used to have regular heavy drinking sessions In Germany whilst stationed there In the Army.
Amstel and Heineken were the beer at the time, start drinking Friday night and go right through to Sunday night.
Drinking heavily caused me so much grief and money over the years, one hungover morning Mrs Ted gave me the ''stare'' and to cut a long story short from that day (mid 80's) to this day today I have been thankfully teetotal, and that's how It will stay.
Anyone fancy a pint? |
Pint o' whisky please Ted. | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:56 - Mar 21 with 1203 views | dmm |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 12:17 - Mar 21 by willesdenr |
First beer was from a quart bottle of Truman's brown ale a friend (he looked older than the rest of us) got from the offy at the Rising Sun, Harlesden Road, Willesden. When I could pass for 18 drank light and bitter in the Rising Sun. The odd Saturday evening we'd frequent the pubs up at Hampstead Heath and finish up in the Galtymore, Cricklewood Broadway where the bar stayed open until 2 in the morning. |
Light and bitter was the drink of choice among my mates when I started. It was because you'd usually get a bit more than half a pint of draught bitter poured in the pint glass to go with the bottle of light ale.
I don't know any pub that does a light and bitter these days. The last one was the Hole in the Wall in Waterloo but it stopped doing them a few years ago. |  | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 14:36 - Mar 21 with 1104 views | Mick_S |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 12:50 - Mar 21 by daveB |
At Christmas as kids in the mid 80's my Nan and Grandad used to make me and my sister snowballs with Advocaat and lemonade, used to love it and at new year they would give us both 3 or 4 of them and we'd strangley fall alsleep quite quickly. Only realised how much booze was in them when i went round in my 20's and they made me one with my response being "Isn't this a kids drink" to which they laughed at me a lot
Didn't drink really in my teens, went to a mates 18th birthday drinks and was on pepsi all night but a mate was spiking it with vodka, i worked it out straight away but as my mates were happily paying for these drinks all night I went along and acted all shocked at the end of the night when I was rat arsed.
Only started drinking beer in my 20's which probably explains why i put on several stone once i got the taste for it |
Christmas Babycham for me when I was about 11. Two choices, sweet or dry. My auntie in Kensal Rise had a cupboard full of the stuff. I remember the innocent cartoon Deer on the label.
Of course, there was Advocaat as well, but it had a dash of lime cordial in it, so it was ok. Probably my first ever cocktail. |  |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 15:32 - Mar 21 with 979 views | dutch |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 13:56 - Mar 21 by dmm |
Light and bitter was the drink of choice among my mates when I started. It was because you'd usually get a bit more than half a pint of draught bitter poured in the pint glass to go with the bottle of light ale.
I don't know any pub that does a light and bitter these days. The last one was the Hole in the Wall in Waterloo but it stopped doing them a few years ago. |
Light and bitter known as the dockers's cocktail. All the lairy boys drank that, i prefered light and lager. Always told dont drink mild, they put the slops in it.
can't even taste cider after throwing up at the old cider house on the Harrow Road, a proper rough ouse where the regulars never seem to have any socks on, as if the cider had rotted their hosiery as well as their brains.
Still like a pint of Paulaner when you can get it. | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 16:32 - Mar 21 with 875 views | Hayesender |
I remember drinking cans of colt 45 on the walk to Wembley in 86 as a 15 year old. Other than the normal rubbish fosters and castlemain, I remember getting a vicious hangover after drinking copious amounts of Steinlager in the frog and firkin in Westbourne park |  |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 17:19 - Mar 21 with 773 views | DaBurgh |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 16:32 - Mar 21 by Hayesender |
I remember drinking cans of colt 45 on the walk to Wembley in 86 as a 15 year old. Other than the normal rubbish fosters and castlemain, I remember getting a vicious hangover after drinking copious amounts of Steinlager in the frog and firkin in Westbourne park |
Colt 45, good lord. Satan's jism. | |
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 17:52 - Mar 21 with 725 views | Third_Division_South |
Light and Bitter 2/6d [Post edited 21 Mar 17:56]
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| Introduction to the demon drink on 20:48 - Mar 21 with 545 views | hantssi |
Ben Truman in The Century in Wembley as a 16 year old, 35p a pint! | | | |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 20:56 - Mar 21 with 519 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Introduction to the demon drink on 11:53 - Mar 21 by PlanetHonneywood |
I was a sickly child, who spent a lot of time in hospital what with one thing and another. I was also always ill and was quite skinny.
That was until my dad went back to see his dad in Tipperary one time when I was aged 4 (four), and returned with some grandad advice. Drink a sherry glass of Guinness and the top o'the milk three times a day!
For the next three years, at breakfast, after returning from school, and before bed, this was my thrice daily elixir.
I only met my paternal grandfather once, ironically in his local in Mullinahone, Co. Tipp. When he entered the pub there I was, sat on top of a stool at the bar. To be honest, I was a bit miffed that instead of sharing a pint of the black stuff with the ol' fella, an uncle bought me this red thing that he and the barman insisted was lemonade!
I genuinely believe I owe my existence to Guinness, cream and while in hospital, where the matrons wouldn't allow me a drop of the black stuff, lucozade and grapes! |
I was also a 'Guinness Child' John.
I was small and skinny, so a bottle of Guinness was prescribed with the dinner.
I got a bit of a grá for it, and soon I had to be minded when I was stocking the bar in our hotel or my mouth would be under the tap.
It couldn't continue like that, of course, and things came to a timely head when I was eleven and presented for my Confirmation. I'm not sure if it's the same now, but back then us kids had to promise the Bishop that we'd take The Pledge. The Pledge meant swearing off the drink until we were eighteen. And there'd be no discussion about it.
Except in my case.
Myself and the Bishop weren't pulling the best already as he'd vetoed my intention to take the Confirmation name of Luther. Now he was asking me to give up the drink, and stay short for the rest of my life. 'Twas a lot to ask of a man.
Come the day of the big event the whole thing went off amiably enough. I bumped into my Dad outside the church afterwards and we had a small chat, and he broached the question of The Pledge. I told him I'd dropped Luther but had kept the drink.
We walked over to the pub.
In Causkey's Bar, two pints of Porter arrived. My first pint.
But the Dad sat me back smartly and offered me a choice. I could have the pint with him now if I'd let him teach me how to drink it properly (above the Harp always, sip slightly over the lip, don't mix the white and the black), how to drink slowly (only two in the first hour, you can speed up a small bit after that, don't go near the top shelf) and to always stand my round. I'd have to give it up for a while. I could drink again when I was sixteen, and for the first year back on it I could only drink in his company. At seventeen, I'd be my own boss.
Or he could take the pint away now, and I could teach myself and see if I fared better in life for it.
I took the pint. We drank together. We were men together for half an hour.
I stuck to the deal until sixteen and then for a year I drank only with my Dad and his buddies. I was never drunk once as a teenager
Unusual parenting in different times.
I found out years later that it was the Mother's idea. Together, they decided that it should be a chat between two men. |  |
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