When did you first drink alcohol?

[RATTER15]

When did you first drink alcohol?

At what age and under what circumstances?

Did you get drunk?

Did you continue to drink from that point?

What age did you start going to the pub to drink alcohol?

I will read answers on my return from work tonight.

[supersuezy24]

When I was 16.
I was 16 and it was a glass of wine with Christmas dinner.
No.
No.
When I was 18 with my friends Laura, Linda and Dee.

Hope work was okay :)

[milly143]

Don't remember my very first drink but we would sneak to the park as teenagers with bottles of white lightening. Yuk!

I lived in a pub when I was growing up so from about 16 Dad would let me have a discreet drink with my sisters, only one or two though. It was about that age I started going to clubs and pubs with friends.

[craft1948]

14............the boyfriend was 21 and I looked much older. After him I didn't really bother much as I was involved in loads of sports, plus the next boyfriend (later first husband) was teetotal.

[Old_Geezer]

Too long ago to recall, but I'd guess about age 7 or 8, and Xmas. No I'd not have got drunk, I'd imagine I'd have pulled a face and not understood what the adults saw in it.
I'd also guess I'd have been about 16 or 17 when I started going to the pub with friends to drink & socialise

[NoMercy]

Age 13/14 after buying cider in the local supermarket

A bit

No

As soon as I was old enough - though not too frequently - I still prefer to drink wine at home or in a restaurant. I seldom just go to the pub.

[system]

My 18th birthday and no I didn't get drunk as I only had Baileys (I had tasted alcohol before)

No, next time I drank was my 21st.

Only drank on rare occasions after that because I had the children who seemed to be breast fed forever.

Drink more now the kids are older but mainly at home and at a weekend.

[Chaffinch]

I was about 15
A friend and I "borrowed" 4 bottles of dad's barley Wine
No, but WAS sick
No, remebered being sick too well!
Went to the pub from about 18, but only drank coke................long memory
Like a glass or two of good red now though.

[boxtops]

Same as O-G I reckon - I remember having a sip of gin and grapefruit aged about 8 and not liking it at all. I've never really been keen on alcohol, even now going to the pub is not my idea of a good night out.

[Lie-in King]

My parents thought my liking for alcohol had to come from the fact that I was given Marsala or rose-hip syrup & brandy as a baby to shut me up!

Was always allowed drink at home & started at the pub at 15

[yogasun]

Same as Old Geezer and Boxtops, given small tastes of liqueurs and sherry at Christmas but didn't go into a pub for a drink til 18 when I had my first employment.
Enjoy a glass of wine but can take it or leave it.

[Kleiber]

I remember having a bad cold when I was a tiny wee lass in Scotland and my Grampa gave me a little tot of brandy. Can't remember if it worked, though! As a child, I spent a lot of time in France, with my paternal Grandma and as kids, my cousin & I were allowed some wine diluted with water to drink at dinner (the adults obviously had it undiluted!) - we were only about 5 or 6 at the time. I'm still a wine drinker but can't remember the last time I got drunk (read into that what you will!!).

[DTCwordfan]

We had restaurants in the family, one with a huge cellar.

So from age 11 I was allowed the occasional glass of wine such as at Christmas or on Sunday

First time I bought was when I was 14 in a pub up from the Bradford Boys Club which we were visiting - all part of the ritual and a 1/2 pint of lager

No to the pizzed thing. That was on Gin when I was 16 in a mates caravan - have always liked it. Hate Bacardi as that was the first thing I was ill on (partly as I did not realise that the medication I was on would react.....)

Have never depended on alcohol and consumption is (and has been relatively moderate)....and now mainly wine. I also do fallow month each Jan and have done it for 25 years plus.

If the underlying question is about age to start, I believe in the French method - a little wine at a young age (and I gave mine the choice of diluted or straight wine) and effectively education about moderation and the differences in wine types etc etc....its one thing my ex and I agree on and she hardly drinks.

[seadogg]

Sherry Xmas 1943. Liked it and have a glass before lunch every day.
Early teens we would buy cheap hooch in flat bottles and drink them in the pictures through a straw, gawd 'elp us!
Most disgusting ever got was in a pub in the Mendips after a tough caving trip. We bought loads of scrumpi, barred the door with a piano at closing time and got absolutely stoshius.

[tigwig]

I was just turned 15 at my sister's 18th party. She bought me taboo & lemonade and yes from that point I carried on drinking every week as I realised what fun it was lol.
I would get a bottle of cider usually and drink in the park or on the streets with my best friend. I then went to nightclubs when I was still 15 but nearing 16. The town where we would go was notorious for allowing under age drinkers in. I have never looked my age (in fact still get asked now in Sainsburys at times even though I'm 34!)

[237SJ]

(as a fellow Devonian) we used to have cider sometimes on a Sunday when I was quite little. I first bought it myself when a few of us at age 15 snuck into the discos in Ilfracombe. The first time I got drunk was when I was 18 and working behind a bar one NY eve. I got absolutely hammered on vodka (the landlord was one of the people who gave them to me plus customers kept buying me them) I`ve never touched vodka since.

[Euphemia]

A tot of my father's elderberry wine when I was 13. I thought it tasted like medicine.
Only go to the pub for a bar lunch.

[karenmac60]

I have no idea what age I was, but I was pretty young. Mu mum always allowed my sister and I to toast in the New Year with a very weak Vermouth or a shandy (and my grandpa would always sneak me a wee shandy in the pub when I was only about 6 or 7). I first got drunk at 13 when my cousin poured every clear alcoholic beverage she could find (at a New Year's Party) into a glass and dared me to drink it. I spent half an hour laughing and the next 3 hours throwing up. I started going to the pub not long before my 18th.

[RATTER15]

I think my first alcoholic drinks were actually sat up to the Bar of the White Hart Inn when I was about 14 still dressed in school uniform with a half pint of Brown Ale that set me back about 12 pence. I was never a heavy drinker but would frequent pubs occasionally after that, if PC plod opened the pub door we were ushered through to the back room prompt.

I rarely drink now but I do enjoy a pint of real ale maybe once or twice a month. I cant drink that fizzy lager type stuff, foul!!!

[Paddy96]

First drank whisky when I was 2 because i thought it was apple juice ( i ended up sleeping for a few days but I was fine) But I first drank with friends when I was 14 on holiday. I started drinking again 6 months afterwards when I was 15 and this summer I went to Greece and went to some bars and clubs to drink which was awesome haha.