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re: How old were you when you actually enjoyed the taste of beer?

Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:15 pm to
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:15 pm to
I still can’t do dark beers
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:16 pm to
When your out of Bud, tough Schlitz!
Posted by Ssubba
Member since Oct 2014
7539 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:18 pm to
25, never drank. Smells horrible and is too expensive.
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:20 pm to
I legit started liking it around 15. That's at least when we started drinking mass quantities of it. I also started really early. My dad would let me have beers on the golf course at like 13.

I didn't like the more bitter stuff untii 19/20.
Posted by RedMustang
Member since Oct 2011
6946 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 1:57 pm to
As soon as I started drinking dark beer. Probably around 24.
Posted by Athis
I AM Charlie Kirk....
Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:03 pm to
I had to be about 18...We were getting out of school and a friend had just came back from spring break. He had an ice chest of ice cold Bud. I drank it in the school parking lot and it was perfect.
Posted by Keys Open Doors
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:09 pm to
I don’t think age has much to do with it. It’s about the type of beer you drink, which is just highly correlated with age. 16 year olds are mostly drinking the cheapest thing they can find, like Natural Light or Busch, and drinking 8-10 of them.

College kids start with the same shite and then move onto Bud Light or Coors Light. Those aren’t complete trash but don’t taste very good, either.

When you start drinking something that tastes better than that (Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, good Belgian or German beers), that’s usually when you start liking the taste. If you gave a 16 year old one of those beers, he would certainly prefer the taste of that instead of Natty. However he has different priorities, namely spending as little cash as possible while drinking as much beer as possible.
Posted by northshorebamaman
Mackinac Island
Member since Jul 2009
38566 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:12 pm to
quote:

First time I got drunk on beer was Colders 29. Anyone remember this stuff?
My first time getting drunk was a 12 pack of warm Meister Brau (currently sporting 1.1 stars on RateBeer). The first one or two were terrible.



The first time I noticed that I liked the taste was when I was 16. I can remember the exact moment. It was a hot day, I was at a cookout, and I'd just cracked open an ice cold Bud Heavy out of the cooler.



Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
19796 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:20 pm to
Started drinking at age 15. Didn't enjoy the taste till 20's.

Don't drink anymore and haven't for a good 5 years. Not because I had a problem but because I never really enjoyed it that much.
Posted by Lake Vegas Tiger
Lake Vegas
Member since Jun 2014
3298 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:26 pm to
never for coors, bud or miller
Posted by fallguy_1978
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Member since Feb 2018
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:30 pm to
quote:

The first time I noticed that I liked the taste was when I was 16. I can remember the exact moment. It was a hot day, I was at a cookout, and I'd just cracked open an ice cold Bud Heavy out of the cooler. 

Thats about the same age for me. Looking back on it, it probably wasn't a good thing but I had been drinking beer for years at age 16.
This post was edited on 7/31/19 at 2:40 pm
Posted by 3nOut
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:39 pm to
30.

But I didn’t start drinking till my late 20s. Doesn’t hurt that I skipped over bud, Coors, and natty lite in my teens and 20s.

I can drink those now and will happily but I don’t think I would have ever acquired the taste if I started on those.
Posted by GCTigahs
Member since Oct 2014
2617 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:49 pm to
quote:

6-7 taking sips off of dad's beer. I snuck a Miller pony once at 8


My dad would tell me to go grab him a Miller pony and he'd let me take the first sip. I was probably somewhere between 7 and 9. He stopped letting me do it when my sips ended up being a couple ounces worth. To this day nothing quenches my thirst like a Miller High Life on a hot day!
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
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Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 7/31/19 at 3:00 pm to
20 or 21. Used to think it was terrible then I learned it was the cheapest thing you can get drunk on. Suddenly it started to taste amazing.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
103829 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:25 pm to
3.50 years old
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20375 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:29 pm to
Early teens for me. Different times back then and it wasn't as frowned upon for a dad to give his young son a bit of beer from time to time.

Started high school at age 13 and would go to a friends house after Friday night football games and this guys dad had a pool table in his garage and a fridge with ice cold beer and we were allowed to each have a few.

The dad's thinking was he'd rather have his sons and some friends drinking where it's safe instead of riding around in cars going to places and getting drunk.
Posted by ItNeverRains
Offugeaux
Member since Oct 2007
28166 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:30 pm to
First beer I had was Budweiser. Might as well have been called Spudweiser because it tasted like dog piss. Still does.

Then one summer fishing in 100 degree heat I had a corona with a lime. Pretty sure it saved my life that day. Since then I have an appreciation for beer, I prefer stout/porter brews the most.

Posted by Obtuse1
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Member since Sep 2016
31145 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:38 pm to
IME most people that claim to like the taste of beer and drink a lot of beer actually don't. They normally want it ice cold, too cold to smell or taste the volatiles. If you hand them a quality beer served at a proper temperature they usually don't like it. Absolutely nothing wrong with liking low taste beer served ice cold but that doesn't equate to the liking the taste of beer.

I was in my 30s before I started to appreciate the actual taste of beer.
Posted by AU4real35
Member since Jan 2014
16065 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:41 pm to
Never acquired a taste for it, glad I didn’t.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
73753 posts
Posted on 7/31/19 at 5:43 pm to
Never have, never will.
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