Do you remember your first legal drink?

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cl0ckw0rkman@reddit

Never had one. Got sent to rehab at 17 years old.

Been sober ever since.

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit

Held off for so long because my friends drank. Made it to 16 to impress a girl.

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SunstoneFV@reddit

A couple of weeks after turning 16 at an Irish Pub in Prague. Half a pint of Guinness.

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wtfiqwm51@reddit

Yes, Black Angus restaurant for my 21st BD...I had a glass of Chardonnay!

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Playful_Ad9949@reddit

I went to Gwar. Skated there, stopping at a liquor store on the way. Wasn’t carded…

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I went out with my parents before I met my friends. My dad told everyone at the bar that it was my 21st and that I was having my “first beer” with them. He acted like he totally believed it was the truth 😂

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DorkyUsernameHere@reddit

Margarita at the local Chi Chi’s. I miss them.

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Huge_Many_2308@reddit

1993 tasting flight of beer in a pub in Portland Oregon. I was 24, didn't drink until grad school.

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EmotionalVegetable48@reddit

Dave & Busters on my 21st.

My classmates took me out around 1:00p. D&B was across the parking lot from school. Got too 💩faced that I had to call off work.

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IRadiateYou1999@reddit

My 21st was on a Wednesday. We went to the only bar still open in my one horse town and it was quarter beer night. Walked in right at last call. Got 50¢ worth of less than stellar beer and went home.

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Higgsy45@reddit

Yes 18th Birthday. Local pub about 3 miles from home. Ended up getting scanked by mates and walking home drunk as I had no money for taxi.

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Physical_Ad5135@reddit

It was Long Island ice tea! Got it free at a college bar.

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Sad-Average-2469@reddit

18th Birthday, Michelin bottle at the Matador Lounge, Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa.

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AmbassadorSevere3113@reddit

Not a chance. Too many before that one!

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wordstogetherrandom@reddit

Came here to say this!

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azchocolatelover@reddit

I actually turned "legal" twice. It was when NY was raising their drinking age from 18 to 21. They first raised the age to 19 (I was 17 at the time), so I celebrated my 19th birthday with a Melon Ball. Then, 14 months after my birthday, it was raised to 21. So, for 10 months, I wasn't technically of legal age. I believe it was a Rum & Coke I had for the 2nd "legal" drink.

Good thing I looked older than I was when I was younger because I never got carded.

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NYCphilliesBlunt@reddit

Me too! Wasn’t that hilarious? Did you have to negotiate with your door people and bartenders? I was like “C’mon, I’ve been coming here since I was 13 and I’ve never caused a problem.”

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azchocolatelover@reddit

😆. The bartenders and door people never gave me a second look. I've been asked for ID one time in my life, and that was when I was in my early 30s. I almost hugged that Publix cashier when she apologized for asking for my ID but she just wasn't sure I was over 21...

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Vegetable-Orchid1789@reddit

18, PCS'ing to be stationed in Italy at my first permanent party. Grappa was a mistake to start with!

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danagnyc@reddit

I was seeing my friends’ band at CBGB’s and at midnight I had my first legal drink!

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chopper5150@reddit

Cisco, lol

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Kind of embarrassing. Friends took me to Hooters. It was some specialty drink they had that the waitress served you.

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ruarchproton@reddit

A pitcher of Michelob Classic Dark at Poor Paul’s poorhouse in Tallahassee FL

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Ant1_NL@reddit

My first beer with an old Priest uncle on a Belgium cafe. When I was 15. Already 🍷 Ng before that. (Netherlands in the early 90's)

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TheCheshireCody@reddit

I don't remember what the drink was (probably a shitty beer), but I had it in a bar/dance club I'd been going to for years. My friend took me to our usual bartender and told him, he gave me a "naughty naughty" look and gave it to me for free.

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nfssmith@reddit

Not specifically the one but I know I had many on my 19th birthday which would be my first day legally able to drink…

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Silver_fish1978@reddit

My first beer was Coors Light, and my first drink was a Kamikzie

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GenXrules69@reddit

Remember both. 18th then was not legal a few weeks later. And 21st when I was legal again.

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OddSignificance9742@reddit

Went to the liquor store on my 21st birthday and didn’t even get carded. Had it ready to show them. Made me wonder how long I could have been buying?

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Rooster_Ties@reddit

On a college choir ‘tour’ over spring break, and my 21st birthday happened to fall on a Sunday. College I went to wasn’t religious, but lots of choral repertoire is (throughout history), and we often sang our full program in churches (with some religious material, and plenty of secular too).

But that Sunday we sang in an actual church service — and then we drove four hours in our bus, and sang in ANOTHER church vespers service around 5pm.

So by the time we had dinner — thankfully in a restaurant with a bar — It was only THEN that I had my first legal drink — a whisky sour, iirc.

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Kodiak01@reddit

Was drinking for so many years before I was legal, I couldn't even begin to recall my first actual one at a bar.

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Ok-Huckleberry-6326@reddit

I was on my way to New Orleans with friends for spring break, we drove & stayed in campgrounds + crap motels on the way down. It was my 21st bday mid-trip so the boys got me a 40 of Milwaukee's Best and made me chug it.

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shay2791@reddit

Sloe gin fizz. My father bought 2 for me at the dinner theater 2 weeks after my birthday.

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DonnyDiddledIvanka@reddit

I was a junior in college(Oct) when I turned 21. Most of my friends were under 21 still and the underage bar in town got busted that week and started enforcing checking for real ids(not fakes). I had been drinking so much before my birthday and then spent that night drinking with friends in my room. Technically those were 'legal' but just didn't feel different. That was a Saturday night so probably drank at an establishment a week or 2 later which would probably be considered my first legal drink but I certainly do not remember it specifically.

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BMisterGenX@reddit (OP)

Where I went to college my freshman year there were two bars in walking distance of campus. One checked ids and the other didn't. But the one that didn't had one night a week when drafts were half off and then they checked ids at the door

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ColdWarRabbitholer@reddit

Yep. Alabama Slammer in a local bar. My buddy, who had just started boot on Parris Island, said order that as my first and think of him not being there to buy it for me.

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Novel_Willingness721@reddit

Coors light playing the drinking game cops and robbers.

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KippyC348@reddit

It's hard for me to remember my first legal drink because there were so many prior to that that were - I guess - not legal. But if I had to guess I could make an educated guess of when and where that was

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Upstairs_End_4202@reddit

Just a beer, which was on the house.

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CityBoiNC@reddit

I passed out before people showed up for my 21st😂

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Kanya_Mkavry@reddit

I was in a bowling league with my mom. She bought me my first beer.

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Cold_in_Lifes_Throes@reddit

I was 18 as was the legal age here at the time. But I have no idea what drink it actually was 🤷‍♀️

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Duran518@reddit

Definitely was drinking before 21, so nothing special on the day of.

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Few-Pineapple-5632@reddit

No but I remember my first terrible vomit drunk at 14. Stayed out all night after we did that “I’m staying at Liz’s house.” Liz says “I’m staying at Teresa’s house” Teresa says “I’m staying at Lori’s house” etc.

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Kestrel_Iolani@reddit

I was in the Navy. I remember that they duct taped my ID to my forehead and took me to the bar on base.

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docweston@reddit

Hmm... I remember buying it. I remember the first few sips. I do not remember the rest of the night. And I wish I could forget the next morning. 😂 🤢

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carlosdangertaint@reddit

Sadly yes, rot gut shots of tequila in a Philly dive bar

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AllieJIsHere@reddit

This was in the mid nineties. I got a rum and coke for my first legal drink at a dive bar.

I had many many drinks before that legal one though.

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Bahlore@reddit

So I had a few "Legal" Drinks before I was 21. I was in Germany when I was 15, and we had a beer in the Hoffbrauhause in Munic. Then I joined the Army at 18, and they sent me to Korea where they said I could "only" buy 2 cases of beer or 2 fifths of alcohol a month ON post but could buy as much off post as I wanted; so Jungle Juice and OB it was! By the time I turned 21 I was in Tennessee; and Madog 20/20 was cheap as hell (reasons for that) and I cannot or will not ever drink that again, the smell of it makes me gag.

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Tasty_Heron_7219@reddit

Mine was on my 21st bday in 1987. It was a Wednesday and I was working in Hells Kitchen during the day and had a staff meeting in the South Bronx that evening. I convinced my coworker to take the time to stop in the bar of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square before grabbing the subway there. This was before they “cleaned up” Times Square and the place was seedy as hell. I ordered a screwdriver because it was the only drink I really knew (I didn’t like beer). My coworker who was several years younger than me also ordered a drink. They didn’t card either of us so it was anticlimactic for me. We only stayed for a little while because we had to get to the meeting. I don’t think I finished the drink.

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bandley3@reddit

At 1155 PM on the night before my birthday I walked into a convenience store and snagged a big bottle (40?) of Miller High Life. I got to the register right after midnight and set my beer on the counter. The plan was to have my ID checked, the clerk look at the clock to verify my age, and then having him sell me the beer. Instead, for the first, I wasn’t carded. I went home, drank my beer by the trash can, went inside and went to bed.

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sandsonik@reddit

No, but I'd been drinking for a few years already. Probably a Budweiser.

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vulgrin@reddit

I remember the first half of my 21st. But I was drinking well before that…

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rharper38@reddit

My friend took me to the Liquor Barn after class. We bought cupcakes and champagne and drank it at the park.

Then my other friend took me to Appleby's and I had an amaretto sour and a mudslide. And they were magical.

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Away_Bit_3382@reddit

Can't remember. Back in my day, legal age was 18. We had been drinking in bars since we we 16; some maybe 15.

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Thatsoundsnuts@reddit

My brother and his family had an exchange student at the time and I happened to tag along on a day trip to NYC on my 21st birthday.

So my first legal drink was a pina colada at Planet Hollywood. 😂

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idrathern0tsay@reddit

I was a senior in high school still when I had my first legal drink. I remember it didn't taste as good being legal.

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Good_Oil2942@reddit

My first legal drink was in 1991 at midnight - the very start of my 21st birthday. I was one of those dopes that started drinking years earlier in my teens, so this wasn't exactly a moment for me. I was already sitting at a bar I had frequented for months prior, our older friend had been the bartender there for a few years. I was four or five beers in at that point, but when the clock struck 12, I was served a "Prairie Fire", which was a shot of cheap tequila with 2 dashes of tabasco sauce. My friends wryly sang happy birthday to me and I drank the shot. It was gross and it was right about then that I started to think I should stop drinking.

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Low-Nebula194@reddit

I’m from San Diego, CA so my first legal drink was in Tijuana at age 18. Which was a beer Dos Equis.

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DwinDolvak@reddit

$1 Shot night (Sunday night) at Ted’s (UCONN). I had many, unfortunately. Even college kids will buy the birthday kid shots.

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unloosedcoin@reddit

With my dad, he just bought a house and started a business. He had enough money for 3 schooners of cooper's pale ale. Best beers I can remember

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Never_Dave_1@reddit

I drove from Chicago to Phoenix for my 21st. Went to a college bar, and they gave me a free shot and a beer. Don't remember what either of them was. Also, don't remember much else of that afternoon/night, either. I do remember a bar where all the drinks were served out of slurpee machines. 🤣

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chefybpoodling@reddit

This makes me laugh. All the great places for a first legal drink in Chicago, top of the Hancock bldg or the green mill and you drove to Az to hit up mill Ave. I hope your birthday was in the winter so you got great weather too. I have drank in all the places mentioned, so no shade.

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Never_Dave_1@reddit

Nope, July. It was 110 every day I was there. 🤣 I loved it. I drove down there to see a girl I had been dating, who had moved to her mom's place in Chandler when her dad took a job in Europe. The relationship didn't work out, but the trip was still worth it. Hiking in Sedona and Payson, watching 4th of July fireworks from on top of Camelback, driving my Mustang way too fast on mountain roads. Good times.

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willfully_slow@reddit

Legal age is 18 here. I bought apple wine for me and a friend. It tasted terrible. It did not taste any better when it came up.

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neo101b@reddit

In the local pub when I was 18, it was only a 5 min walk away.
I was already drinking in pubs from 16 upwards.
Was Probably fosters or Newcastle Brown Ale,

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forgeblast@reddit

College bar, where they gave you a box to puke in on your 21st. 21st was an event everyone came out to buy you shots. First shot was a prairie fire, tequila Tabasco sauce and pepper,which was not fun. Next was a cement mixer to stop the burn. did 21+ shots that night. Don't remember them all but someone wrote them on a napkin for me.

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BadLuckIsMyLuck@reddit

My B-Day was on Sunday. Friends and I went to a bar at midnight. My first drink was a prairie fire, a shot of tequila with horseradish and tobacco. Friends suck some time.

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moopet@reddit

Probably Baileys at christmas some time when I was a kid, maybe 6ish?

Depends what you mean by "legal", I guess. Other options are out with my folks for dinner in my early teens or the first time I bought my own beer at 18.

Not easy to answer!

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Len_Zefflin@reddit

First LEGAL drink was in 1984. My high school aftergrad party was on my birthday.

First drink period, I don't remember but it probably would have been a rum & coke around age 7.

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LightOtter@reddit

My first ever drink was at age 23. I have no idea what I drank because it was something the bartender threw together. I told the bartender that it was my first drink and asked him to reccommend something. It tasted like lemonade. That was the day I discovered that I hate the taste of alcohol. No matter what I mix together, I can't disguise the taste. Might as well not waste the money.

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mrsmobin@reddit

Fuck yeah! Went for power hour it was a vodka martini with Absolut Citron made by bartender/homey, Matt.

Celebrated at a local bar with a dozen friends who all bought me drinks. It was a blast.

🍻

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totallyjaded@reddit

Drambuie.

My dad took me to the local bar a few blocks from my parents' house, and one of his friends immediately offered me a drink. I said I'd have what he was having. So, the bartender handed me a small glass, and I assumed it was a shot.

Dad's friend thought that was pretty cool, and offered me another. And another.

I was too drunk to walk. And that was challenging. Because I needed to get back to my parents' house, where my grandparents were waiting to say "happy birthday".

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Medium-Mission5072@reddit

My mom made Pina Coladas for my 21st. Why Pina Coladas? She only had rum and Pina Colada mix left over from a recent family event in the liquor cabinet, and my stepdad wouldn’t let me have any beers because “you’re not old enough”, and “you’re not drinking any of my beers. You’ve got a job, you can buy your own” (he’s an asshole).

The Pina Coladas were mighty good, and it was also the only time I saw my now wife drink (she had open heart surgery later that year and can’t drink with the medications she’s on).

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Grobbekee@reddit

The legal age at the time was 16. However I didn't try a beer before 20. It was the last day of school and it was the only thing they had at the party besides tapwater from the toilet sink. The beer tasted gross to me. So bitter.

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2_Bagel_Dog@reddit

I don't remember what it was (beer, I'm sure), but I remember the situation. Was in college but "between homes" - so it was very anti-climactic.

Bringing things full circle, I also remember my LAST drink ... 2010 ... also somewhat anti-climactic.

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Munchkinpea@reddit

No.

I started drinking shandy and wine mixed with lemonade when I was a child, which is legal here in the UK.

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LordBaranof@reddit

I was working in Montana and my co-workers bought me a 6-pack of bud light, but put baby bottle nipples on all of them.

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Picnut@reddit

Yep, took a weekend trip to Austin with my mom and got my first Shiner Bock

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mmfn0403@reddit

Not at all. I started university at 17, and was regularly enjoying the odd beverage in the student bar before I turned 18 (legal drinking age in Ireland) in the March. So it wasn’t a big deal turning 18.

Fun fact - the barmen in the student bar would ask to see your student card, but that just proved you were a student, it didn’t have your date of birth. The year after me, they changed the student cards so that if you were under 18, the card had a red line down the side to deter underage drinking. You could get a new card from the Student Union once you turned 18.

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CrazyCatLadyNL@reddit

Beer. In The Netherlands it was allowed to drink beer and other light alcoholic drinks at 16 in the 80’s.

I’ve had my first sips of beer when I was a little kid tbh.

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WeirdWritings1989@reddit

The day I turned 21 I went to the local bar. Bartender said I hate to ask you but we have inspectors here today and I need your ID. I said Nick I hate to tell you but I turned 21 today as I handed him my ID.

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Consistent-Tie-4394@reddit

Yeah, similar story for me.

My friends and I were semi-regulars at a local bar where we'd shoot pool and drink beer. I was the youngest of the group, and we were there until after midnight, rolling into the early hours of my 21st birthday.

At 12:01, one of my friends told the bartender he'd better check my ID. He replied something to the effect if, "Nah, you guys are akways in here." My friend insisted, and when I handed over my ID, he gave us a blast of fake outrage... then gave me an Old Fashioned on the house as a birthday present.

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WeirdWritings1989@reddit

Nice…but then again it was easier back then when no body really gave a crap. I was drinking in bars since I was 14. Back then I’d go with coworker to the bar next door. Never got questioned at all.

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Migamix@reddit

18 was the drinking age in new Orleans, I had already been in bars since 17, in fact, the owner knew I was under age, and on my 18the best he called my landline and offered me a DJ gig since I was legal. I was already doing DJ backup stuff just not officially. But I was paid in booze back then.

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Giant_Devil@reddit

I have an August birthday. My family and a lot of my friends were on vacation that week. A buddy took me out for dinner at, idk Applebee's or TGI Friday, some chain place. I had a beer or 2.

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Dusty_Sequins@reddit

Pretty sure mine was a rolling rock at a restaurant but I can’t remember which one. My 21st was a Sunday and everyone had to work the next day. So we went to dinner and had a beer or two and called it a night.

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LuckyAd2714@reddit

Yes I went to the beer bust at motherlode in WeHo. It was 1988 and I was with my gay bff and I completely pissed myself. I even remember what I was wearing. I was sooo klassy.

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morts73@reddit

I remember memorable drinks. Singapore sling at Raffles, drinking Vodka with Russians in some Korean dive bar, seeing Chelsea Clinton in Georgetown, drinking Japanese vending machines dry.

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chainmailler2001@reddit

I was meeting the movers to move to the other side of the state the day after my 21st birthday and it was mid week so I didn't have any friends available to go drinking with. I went to the brewpub I had been working at and had a Blackberry stout. I then went to their pubhouse across the street and had a Jack Daniels Lynchberg Lemonade and so ended my 21st birthday.

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IranticBehaviour@reddit

When I turned 18, I lived in a province where the drinking age was 19, but we lived very close to a province where you could drink at 18. So dad drove me over the 'border' to buy me my first legal drink. Seedy little dive bar, but it was the closest. I had a rum and coke, he had a beer, finished up and immediately turned around and drove home. Didn't even get carded, lol. Kinda wild given how baby-faced I was, but I actually drank 'illegally' in bars and never got carded until the eve of my 19th. I'm pretty sure one of my 'buddies' thought it would be funny to rat me out to the bouncers, because I'd been there many times before and they'd never even looked twice at me. Funny now, less funny then.

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marge7777@reddit

In hull? Lol

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IranticBehaviour@reddit

Chapeau, actually. Not quite the variety of nightlife you get in Hull, lol

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Repulsive_Client_325@reddit

Same thing happened on the other end of the Province in Kenora, ON and Falcon Lake, MB.

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otf_dyer_badass@reddit

Mine was in an Applebees 24 years ago. My dad got in a plane crash over my 21st and I had to spend my 21st at Applebee’s with friends and family for my birthday while he was in ICU. Worst birthday ever, followed by this one….. my birthday is a week from tomorrow and my dad just died. The drinks were something fruity. We went to a Mexican restaurant/bar after dinner and I remember staring into my daiquiri wondering who drank it all (I did).

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NYCphilliesBlunt@reddit

Damn, I’m sorry, shug.

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BonCourageAmis@reddit

I had a strawberry daiquiri on my 18th birthday. I don’t remember my 21st birthday at all.

But I was drinking Long Island Iced Teas the summer I was 17.

I actually had a non-alcohol-related head injury at 18 and pretty much stopped drinking for the next ten years.

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LovesDeanWinchester@reddit

It was 1976 or 1977 and the legal age for drinking was 18!!! And the Tequila Sunrise was my first drink!!! Yum!

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Repulsive_Client_325@reddit

Still is in my Canadian province.

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Repulsive_Client_325@reddit

Dear America,

It’s wild to us that you fellers down there still do 21 as the legal drinking age.

Love,

Your alcoholic brothers to the north

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BakeSoggy@reddit

I had my first beer at 49. Former Mormon.

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Zealousideal-Law2189@reddit

Raspberry kamikaze at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Was a great night

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Xoxrocks@reddit

No. I mean everything from 15 onwards is a blur.

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TheWuziMu1@reddit

I asked for a beer and wasn't asked for ID.

So disappointed.

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JustHereforNachos@reddit

I was at the lesbian bar in Northampton MA - had been going for years as it was 18+ so they knew me and were excited at midnight to serve me. Almost certainly first legal drink was a Rolling Rock in the bottle. Good times.

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vinegar@reddit

Hey I’ve lived in Northampton since 97, what and where was the lesbian bar? (Bela just closed, alas. Lily retired)

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JustHereforNachos@reddit

The North Star - Green Street (area)

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AgainstSpace@reddit

Hung Far Lo, Portland, Oregon - probably a whiskey sour

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No_University7832@reddit

Beer on base in San Diego back in 1982 I was 18.

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insanecorgiposse@reddit

I turned 21 on a red eye flight from Seattle to Oakland flying back down to start my winter quarter at Cal. It was 5 am and I didnt even want it but I felt compelled to order a drink so I asked the flight attendant working the bev cart for a jack Daniel's. She was too tired herself to even care about identification and just handed me the mini bottle and a cup and moved on. I poured it into the cup and just stared at it for the rest of the flight. Finally I took a sip and gagged because 5 am is not a good time to start swilling straight jack, let alone finish. My friends took me out later that night so all was good in the end.

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Effective-Usual4152@reddit

I bought Makers Mark in Safeway, in Mountain View, CA after working all day. Has to beg the cashier to check my ID…. 🤣

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the_real_Beavis999@reddit

Margaritas!!!

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natsumi_kins@reddit

legal age is 18 for us - mine was a cider.

21st was a whole other ballgame though

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Advanced-Two-9305@reddit

No idea. I was enjoying a few beverages in university, so I can’t recall of if I did anything for my birthday when I rolled over to 19.

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talulahbeulah@reddit

Rolling Rock in a bar bottle

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Amidormi@reddit

Yes, lol. I didn't drink like at all until after my 21st birthday. My mom didn't drink, my dad was deadly against drinking. The first time I went to a bar with coworkers I didn't even know what to order because alcohol wasn't a thing for me. I ordered an Amaretto Stone Sour because someone suggested it.

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Phantomtastic@reddit

I had a beer by myself at Dennys. I didn’t have anyone to be with or anything to do so I went and sat at the counter. I drank the one beer then drove around for a while before heading home.

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starjammer69@reddit

Jim Beam and Coke.

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TankMan77450@reddit

Yes. I was in the Army and just stationed in Germany. We went off post to a local restaurant. Best beer ever

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Sorry-Government920@reddit

A beer at a Milwaukee Brewers game

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PutPuzzleheaded5337@reddit

Singapore Slings and Long Island iced teas. Vomiting commenced.

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Diligent-Touch-5456@reddit

At 18, it was a wine cooler, at 21 it was a melon ball.

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bene_gesserit_mitch@reddit

3.2% ABV beer was legal in my state when I turned 19. I bought a 6-pack of Moosehead.

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vinegar@reddit

Dinner in a restaurant with my mom. I had pretty much stopped getting drunk in favor of weed.

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introvertednurse75@reddit

For my 21st my then BF took me to a bar that some of our friends frequented because one of the guys worked as a bartender there. So said bartender proceeded to have me try all these different drinks. Ever hear about not mixing your alcohol? Oh well mixed alcohol. Last drink i remember that night was a tequila sunrise. And then the sunrise rose again.

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TheLaughterGuns@reddit

I never really drank before I turned 21.

My parents took me to a nice restaurant. Pops ordered a tanqueray and tonic, so i ordered the same. Best drink I ever had(even though tanqueray is terrible) because I had it with my folks.

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HighSeasArchivist@reddit

Turned 21 while in college at nights. Got out of school at 9:50PM, stopped at a gas station along the way to buy a single beer, took one sip, and tossed it in the trash can by the pumps.

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AnotherBaldWhiteDude@reddit

no but i remember the last one

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GreenEyesBlackHeart@reddit

Yes! On a plane from San Diego (my hometown) to Vegas, where I officially celebrated! It was 1999

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hapster85@reddit

I know where I was. A local bar and night club that closed about a decade ago. Just after midnight. No idea what I had to drink though. It was far from the first time I'd had alcohol. That happened before I was 18.

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aIansjoint@reddit

Was still hungover from my last illegal drink, went out with to celebrate with a group of friends - all of us ended up filling the cells of a Scottish town.

No official charges were laid, although we were all incredibly thirsty and drove the police insane with our drunken demands for either water or more whisky!

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Roads76@reddit

A fancy Margarita at Chili's with my parents in 1997. They brought it out in a purple shaker, I didn't realize I needed to hold the top and it spilled all over the table.

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lmcdbc@reddit

Champagne :)

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Cats6664@reddit

I still have the receipt, the drinking age in Toronto is 19 and that was where I had my first legal drink at 19. Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto

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dogownedhoomun@reddit

Kamikazee (sp?) Lol that was a long night! Good god!

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CanadaYankee@reddit

On a high school choir trip to Europe. Four of us were sharing a room and one guy bought some cheap Austrian schnapps (against the tour rules, but technically legal because the drinking age in Austria was 16). I only had two shots. The guy who bought the bottle had a lot more and barfed in the bed overnight.

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Any_Flamingo8978@reddit

Midori sour!

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SoOutOfFocus@reddit

It was actually a Long Island iced tea. Dying.

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dubgeek@reddit

I was a Resident Assistant at an off campus dorm at the time. A bunch of the other RAs took me on a bar crawl on my 21st.

I (6'1", 150lbs) was made to go drink-for-drink with my 6'6" 270lb rugby player co-worker.

First stop was a Mexican restaurant for a pitcher of margaritas and the first shot of the night, a Prairie Fire. That's Bacardi 151 with Tabasco at the bottom, lit on fire, and you drink it with a straw.

Among the other shots I had that night were a Brain Hemorrhage (I think vodka, Bailey's, and grenadine), a Gorilla Fart (I think Wild Turkey and something else), a Prairie Dog (same as Prairie Fire, but not lit and drunk like a normal shot), and World Peace Punch (Jack Daniels, Smirnoff, and Midori).

That was the first three bars. I don't remember much else after that.

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

I am so impressed with everyone remembering their first legal drink...

I don't remember.... but if I'd have to guess it was probably something boring like a cranberry vodka or a corona.

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jc12551@reddit

Vodka + 7UP.

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Jamie22022@reddit

Impounded beers at the Landing Strip in Detroit with my uncle and my Dad. My Dad gave me an envelope with 2K in it and we had a heck of a night. Couldn't tell you the beer I drank though.

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No_Maintenance_9608@reddit

Honestly don't remember. Probably whatever cheap beer was given to me.

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chjrtx2@reddit

A Corona with lunch at Chi Chi's in Winnipeg

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Ckc1972@reddit

I remember drinking Jagermeister shots and Goldschlager shots on my twenty-first. Puked my brains out and never drank that shit again.

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daltontf1212@reddit

Live in Missouri but was in Wisconsin where my then 19-year old self bought Walter's (Eau Claire) All-Malt beer during the summer of '86.

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Successful-Jacket-64@reddit

First legal was after the NCAA Basketball final. On a Monday about 10 pm. Tanqueray and tonic. Extra lime.

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Oh-THAT-dude@reddit

My first legal drink was at a gay bar with some gay friends.

My second legal drink — which I pretended was my first legal drink — was with my dad and his wife at a nice restaurant a few days after my 19th birthday.

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CitizenChatt@reddit

I can't recall. But it was almost certainly a kamikaze shot

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Sithstress_@reddit

Drove an hour or so to a casino and played slots and sucked down whiskey sours. Lol

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CanadianExiled@reddit

Sadly yes, my mom took me out to dinner on my 18th (legal age at the time) and let me order a beer. Then her, her boyfriend and an aunt and uncle went on a rant of how I'd end up an alcoholic like everyone on my dad's side of the family. They all got sloshed on cheap wine and I ended up having to drive because I'd just had 1 glass of beer vs their 2 bottles of wine. Got home to my dad and he asked how was my first legal drink and I told him what happened. He then took me out to the local dive bar, ordered a pitcher and we played pool till closing. So I have fonder memories of my second legal drink, which happened 4 hours after my first.

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meatwads_sweetie@reddit

I went the The Cliffhouse in San Francisco and had a Grasshopper.

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RawAsparagus@reddit

A shot of Jose Cuervo

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FrozenPizzaReviews@reddit

I was in the Navy. I was stationed at a little base on the Georgia side of the Georgia/Florida state line. I remember my shipmates drove me a country dive bar in Yulee, FL. The bouncer checking IDs at the door took my ID card, did a double take, checked the date on his watch, smiled and screamed a happy birthday. He then walked me to the bar and bought my first drink.

I'm sure it was a rum and coke.

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Independent_Tough_81@reddit

First LEGAL drink was a Jack on the rocks, with My Grandfather, first Bought Legal booze was a case of Molson Golden, had to wait for a couple minutes for the register to change date at Midnight, gas station/store next to the motel with My best friend, my ex, and her cousin ( all under age) ... lol ( that was the second case of the night )

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XYZ2ABC@reddit

Yes… Kamikaze right after midnight, thanks Dirtbags

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PuzzleheadedOwl1191@reddit

Tucson representing!

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largos7289@reddit

My first drink was a Budweiser because that's what i though beer was. Also a friend of my dad's gave it to me and it was butt nasty. I was 16 then i turned 21 went out to a bar and saw the whole wide world of beers out there.

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pilfro@reddit

Think it was a long trail.

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Niffer8@reddit

The year was 1990. I drank B52 shots at the Grawood bar, Dalhousie University on my 19th birthday (legal age here).

It was a Thursday. My boyfriend and his friends took me to get my “liquor ID” after class. Back then you had a separate government photo ID for buying alcohol. After that we went to the Grawood. I finished the night off with a shot of sambuca. My dad came to pick me up. My bf pushed me into the car and then hightailed it out of there before my dad could give him shit over how drunk I was. My dads only words during that drive home were “you smell like a distillery”

The next morning I was too hungover to go to class (English 1000 was the only class I had on Fridays). I crawled out of bed and yakked my guts up. My dad asked me why I didn’t go to class (it was obvious) and then picked up fish and chips for lunch. I wanted to die.

I can’t believe I remember every detail of that experience 36 years ago yet I can’t remember what I ate for breakfast this morning.

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daisy0808@reddit

I love the fact that I also had drinks at the Dalhousie Grawood for my 19th birthday - but in '93. But I got messy drunk at Alfredo Weinstein and Ho's lol

A couple of years later, my friends and I had an intense study session and we went to Hogie's on Quinpool Rd. We decided to drink all the cocktails on the menu (as a group, not each) I was so drunk I opened a closet door thinking it was a bathroom, and boxes fell out over me. I was also too sick to write the exam the next day.

I suspect we would have had fun together!

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Niffer8@reddit

You are my people.

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Vindicus667@reddit

Guinness at the dive bar across the street from where I lived it was a Wednesday and most of my friends also worked second shift so it was just me and the bartender

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dekuius@reddit

Being fed some red wine drops, completely legal in 70s Italy, probably 2yo.

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Jagsfan2025@reddit

I think there is still no real drinking age in Italy. Took kids to Italy last year & the waiters said they could have a drink if parents were with them. They were 11 years old!!

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dekuius@reddit

I think that not demonizing alcohol is a good thing. In Italy alcoholics percentage is half the USA one.

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Oxjrnine@reddit

No

Because I looked like a 30 yld man by 13 (started shaving at 11).

So the legal and illegal drinking didn’t really feel different since I was able to go clubbing and buy beer for 6 years before I turned 19

I actually think I only showed my Liquor Card 4 times in my life. (You had to get one back in 1989 - now it’s just photo id)

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Sea-Soil-1479@reddit

Is that you at 19?

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Oxjrnine@reddit

Yeah. That’s also what I looked like at 14 too lol

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whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit

I had iced tea on my 21st birthday. I was still nursing my 2nd child.

I probably had a drink later in the year.

I remember buying a lottery ticket when I was 18.

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MoaningLisaSimpson@reddit

The moment of first legal drink was completely ruined. I moved from Ontario (drinking age 19) to Quebec (drinking age 18... As a suggestion) five days before I turned 19. The weekend was parties with floor mates that never became friends. Probably some weird cooler from the depanneur across the street was my first legal drink.

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Cranks_No_Start@reddit

drinking age 19)

I was in Germany in the Army at 19 and it was legal to drink anything…and we did.

I knew guys that joined at 17, spent 2 years overseas only to be under 21 when they came back and not legal to drink.

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

My 21st birthday I was pretty broke, so I stopped on the way home and grabbed a bottle of the cheapest red I could find. I think it was about $6.50. I drank it alone while listening to The Cure by candlelight, because I was a tortured poet. 😬

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stankyranch@reddit

I had already been a nightclub dj for 3 years when I turned 21. The last place I wanted to go on my birthday was to the bars but I got dragged out by friends anyway. Pounded 3 shots, then threw an air hockey paddle at someone I was playing with right in front of a bouncer so I knew he'd escort me to the door. Walked home, got shitfaced alone, fell down a flight of stairs while talking on the phone with my girlfriend all the way down the stairs. At some point, I puked in my brand new pair of Doc Martens.

Tada!

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Sindorella@reddit

I do not. By the time I was 21 I had years of drinking, smoking cigarettes and weed, and doing meth under my sleeve and I had been clean for over a year. I didn’t have another drink for at least a decade after that, and I have no idea what it was. Probably a beer. Drinking has never been a vice, I just quit everything except smoking cigarettes when I got clean from meth.

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N-Y-R-D@reddit

Bought a Fosters on the way to class. Pretty anticlimactic in retrospect.

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BigBanyak22@reddit

My older brother bought me a 24 of Foster's when I was in grade 10... It was a new novelty. I came home really drunk, my dad wasn't too happy, I was staggering and could barely see. I was still drunk at school the next morning!!

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Pullout66@reddit

Told about it.. Remember it? No..a

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2013casper@reddit

My first legal drink was a Corona. My neighbors snuck it to my dorm room at midnight on my birthday. The college I went to was dry.

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AcrobaticTrouble3563@reddit

I went to the store at midnight on my 18th birthday, lol. It was far from my foret drink, but it was fun to get that first legal one. My best friend who was just 11 months younger than me had to wait years longer because the legal age changed to 21 between our birthdays.

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BigBanyak22@reddit

Legal, 18th birthday. It was a lot of shots, like 25+... Sambuca, upside down margaritas, sex on the beach... But most were sambuca.

I had already been going to the bars since I was 17 and drinking off and on since I was about 12. I was already quite a regular, one night a super cute server brought me a whole platter of sambuca on the house, about 40 shots, did about 4 with me and left me with the rest! Jesus that was crazy.

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pcoltimber@reddit

12:01 AM on my birthday my Dad and I were at a casino. I asked him what beer I should buy. "Heineken", he says. I get one and take a drink. The worst fucking beer I've ever had. I say to him, "You like this shit?" He answers, "Never had one, I just saw someone walk by with one." Thanks Dad!

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NahNah-P@reddit

21 kamakazi shots and 2 too grow on. I was sick for a week and I will NEVER forget it. It was 1992

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_kingdap_@reddit

Nope. I turned 21 on a naval vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Up to that point we had been drinking at numerous liberty ports throughout southeast Asia. I remember leaning on the rail of our "vulture's row" looking out over the sea saying to myself, "wow, I'm 21. I can legally drink in the States now". 😆 By the time we got back to the US, we had hit a few more ports, so yeah, couldn't tell ya 🤷🏻

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TheRateBeerian@reddit

It was kinda lame, a case of beer in a limo (because my mom rented it for me while i was away at college, she seemed to think that would be a cool way to do my 21st). I dont even remember what beer it was, maybe MGD cuz i used to drink that back then.

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jillsmo@reddit

I remember my first drink, but not my first legal drink. I'm thinking really hard about it and I have no memory of it whatsoever. Surely I celebrated it at the time? I don't know. I do remember being 13 at my brother's prom party and all of his friends sneaking me champagne, though.

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Recordeal7@reddit

A keg of Coors Light. This was in the early 90’s. I decided to splurge and bought it instead of a keg of Natural Light. Good times.

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pooraggies247@reddit

Friday in 1987, went to my favorite restaurant in college got my usual chicken fried steak and instead of the coke I ordered a thousand times, ordered a Coors Light.

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letterzNsodaz@reddit

Peach schnapps with lemonade in a Chinese restaurant.

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paisley_life@reddit

Oh that sounds lovely!

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paisley_life@reddit

Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale on my 19th (where I am in Canada the legal drinking age is 19). It was a hot day, because my birthday is in the summer. The beer was cold and crisp, the fish and chips were amazing, and the harbour side cafe was lovely. That was a very long time ago, but I still love me a Keith’s IPA.

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TheBariSax@reddit

First legal one? Yeah. It was anticlimactic. At midnight my gf and I stopped at a gas station and I bought a 4 pack of Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers.

Tasted like fizzy kool aid with alcohol in it.

Meh.

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glenrock4@reddit

Thank you for your support.

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mish_munasiba@reddit

1999, Hard Rock Café in Toronto. My 19th birthday and I ordered a Mike's Hard Lemonade.

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scooterv1868@reddit

I had one older roommate and we walked downtown from campus and starting going bar to bar looking for free ones. Good times.

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CobraCommandrew@reddit

I was traveling with my dad and we had a pint of Guinness at our hotel bar. A fond memory for sure.

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Feeling-Pea5281@reddit

Definitely not first drink, but first legal drink.

My 21st, went to this crappy little bar in the sticks (my friend worked there). Was supposed to be on a date with my older brother's friend, but said friend was afraid my brother would be mad, so he pretended we were NOT on a date. Great.

Everything the band played sounded like Gimme Three Steps. Some giant redneck tried to physically pick me up and haul me to the dance floor (I do not dance, and it's better for everyone that way).

Anyway, I had a kahlua and cream.

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MsPrpl@reddit

Oh, seriously?

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rddt6154@reddit

Mine actually was a Long Island at Zenos at midnight. Don't remember how much I had after that but I do remember passing out in the bathroom and driving home all kinds of hungover the next day because the semester was over and I had to leave.

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Available_Ship312@reddit

Warm Bartles & James wine cooler in early high school. My boy swiped three of them from his parents summer party and kept them intricately stashed for months. We snuck out when I spent the night and treated them like we were opening a secret forbidden potion in the dark in a field. Lol.

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divergurl1999@reddit

OP said LEGAL!! Hahaha. But, barrels and James was definitely where it was at in high school!! 😂

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Available_Ship312@reddit

My bad. My buddy told me it was legal after midnight.

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Ok_Schedule5017@reddit

On my 21st, I’d been married for 2 years. He was/still is a jerk so I don’t remember it. We divorced at 9 years.

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Kewag1STL@reddit

Jack & Coke with my dad at the establishment I worked as a Head Cook

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Buttrnut_Squash@reddit

Margarita on the rocks at my 19th birthday dinner with the folks. My first "legal" anyways ;) Dad used to sneak me shandy's since I was 5 years old while he was teaching me how to mix drinks at one of their many parties back in the 70's ;) Different times for sure.

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guy_fleegman83@reddit

Heineken from Phillips 66 at 10 am.

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KC5SDY@reddit

Oh yes I do. It was a 16oz budweiser. I walked into my favorite bar wearing a t-shirt that said, "21 at last! It is noe legal for me do those things I have been doing for years already!" The owners eyes got huge when he saw me walking up to the door. 1 only paid for quite beer. Walked put smashed thanks to all the free drinks.

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QuellishQuellish@reddit

I was 14 at Mother Anna's in Boston. Parents ordered wine and they put a glass in front of me. My folks were amused and let me try. I felt so mature, and pretended to like it.

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Felicity_Calculus@reddit

Ordered a whisky and coke at somebody's bar mitzvah and the bartender obligingly served 13-year-old me. Had only one, to my credit. I do vividly remember thinking ooh, I *like* this

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tiggyg1974@reddit

My mother woke me up at 7am with a beer. "Happy birthday, first legal drink. "

I said "go away, i have a hangover! I was drinking with you last night ".

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EyelanderSam@reddit

In my home state back in 1983, they raised the legal age of drinking to 21- 1 month before my 21st B- day. So I had 2 legal age limits- 18 and then 21.

I was sick to my stomach. I couldn't drink in the clubs because I had to wear an under 21 bracelet.

F'd me up because my girlfriend could drink. So option B was to get nearly tanked before heading to the clubs. Hang out for awhile, then back to the neighborhood to drink more.

Fun times!

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parkaman@reddit

Lol. I'm an Irish Gen Xer. We started drinking in pubs when we were 15/16. Can't remotely remember my first legal one.

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Status-Effort-9380@reddit

No. I went to college in New Orleans and it was common for bars to let anyone over 18 in. By the time I was 21, it was such a nonissue to be “legal.”

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Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit

my mom and grandpa came over to my college town to take me out to the college bars, which was fun but also a little strange. my grampa taught me all kinds of classic old man ways to order drinks lol.

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kperry1270@reddit

I turned 21 driving through the desert in 91, when I got to my destination sleep deprived and seeing double on the west coast I bought a did pack of anchor steam porter and drank it all ….. aaaaah

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fallcreekprepper@reddit

Yea, it was midnight when it struck my birthday. I was drinking Tequila and Icehouse beer that night. I also might have had a couple of Zimas. We always had a few around with some Jolly Ranchers since the girls in our group liked them, and most of us would drink them in a pinch.. I was already pretty drunk by then. The only thing different about my first legal drink, was that it was legal.

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Pretend-Excuse-8368@reddit

Beer at a Pizza Hut

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Cobras_And_Fire@reddit

My first legal purchase was about six days after my 21st birthday at a Stevie Ray Vaughan /Jeff Beck concert.

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GboyFlex@reddit

An electric lemonade at The Village Station in Dallas Tx. A bartender at one of the smaller bars in the dance club made me a massive drink "on the house"...After that I only remember having a few more and waking up late the next day in his apartment 🫠

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rileyreidbooks@reddit

Went to the local bar with my brother on my 18th. We had a picture of beer for like $6, all the money we had.

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Kidpidge@reddit

Yes. It was a draft beer, probably bud light or something. My friends got way more drunk than me, and I had to drive everyone home. It was a different time. Don’t kill me.

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Tollowarn@reddit

From the UK, so. Nine or ten, a glass of wine with a meal.

Drinking properly? I looked older than my real age but I was regularly going to the pub at 15. That was unusual but not that odd. Our attitude towards alcohol was very different back in the early '80s. I had been smoking since I was 11, so I guess I peaked early.

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Feoygordo@reddit

Yes, I remember. It was a separator, and it was gross.

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Micheal_Noine_Noine@reddit

Midori sour!

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SWNMAZporvida@reddit

Legal? My sister took me to lunch at Applebees

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AnnieBobJr@reddit

A Guinness pint, at proper Irish serving temperature, at a pub in Dublin

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foilrat@reddit

1990.

I just landed in Munich for a year long study program.

The only thing in the fridge was beer.

I didn't drink beer.

I learned pretty damn quick.

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Leading-Fly-4597@reddit

Lol. No. 1st drink at 15 I think, and many more between that and 19.

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Comfortable-Radio921@reddit

Yes a beer in Okinawa, Japan.

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Stigger32@reddit

First legal drink?

No..

Because by the time I was legally allowed to drink. I and most people I knew had been doing so for years.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

After all those illegal drinks 😆 My mom and step dad are Europeans. They’re more laxed about drinking.

I lived in a dry county, had to drive an hour to buy liquor. I got a bottle of Svedka vodka on my 21st birthday. Made screwdrivers.

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77pearl@reddit

Tequila Paralyzer. 1996.

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BigOrangeDuker@reddit

It was at Plum Crazys in Charlotte NC…3 decades and some change ago

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Gurnae@reddit

I was in the Virgin Island with the U.S. Navy so at 19 not so much a big deal. And was deployed in Europe when I turned 21 so meh. Not so much a big deal.

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KeaAware@reddit

Define "legal"...

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KoalaCapp@reddit

18 for me. I simple half pint of larger (probably Carling)

I used to work at a fancy hotel/golf course place in the UK. And i had been there 2 years already as conference wait staff. I worked on my 18th specifically so I could do a shift behind the bar and serve drinks. Everyone made a big deal out of me that day .

Once my shift was over the manager of the hotel told me to join him for my first legal drink.

Had plenty of non legal drinking done though for a few years before.

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Seven_bushes@reddit

My cousin got married on my 21st bday. It was a simple church wedding with cake and punch in the basement after. We’ve always been close with our cousins so after a polite amount of time, they grabbed me to go celebrate properly. We ended up at an area with several bars in the big city nearby. They made sure it was a very good time, enough that I don’t remember what the first drink was.

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Kimura-Sensei@reddit

Keg beer in a plastic cup.

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OkArmy7059@reddit

40oz, as was the style at the time

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soleiles1@reddit

I really have no recollection of my 21st birthday. I must have had a good time.

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monkeyjedi276@reddit

I went to Planet Hollywood for my birthday dinner. Ordered a shot of Jack. Waitress came back with two. Said the manager wished me a happy 21st and said they’d match me whenever I ordered a drink. I do not remember 90% of that night.

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DirkDaring93@reddit

Green monster aka midori sour. Deployed t0 UK for air force and drinking age was 18. I was 20. Moved onto beer and guinness. Lots of puking that night.

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nygrl811@reddit

Whiskey sour. It was awful (I'd been drinking them for years thanks to a damn good fake ID and lax college bar bouncers). Not sure what the hell the guy did, but my aunt marched me right up to the bar to have it fixed.

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rahah2023@reddit

I had a “sloe gin fiz” at midnight in a bar when I turned 21… 1988

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amatchmadeinregex@reddit

Oddly enough, I don't remember what I ordered, but I remember the bartender didn't card me! He just brought it and I was like "damnit it's my 21st birthday and I've been waiting for this and you have to card me!" Poor guy was like, "uhhh...okay, can I see your ID?" Too little too late, dude, but I showed him anyway, we laughed and he wished me a happy birthday.

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ezgomer@reddit

my friend brought a Post-It and a pen with her on that night and wrote every bar and every free drink I got for my bday in chronological order

it’s around here somewhere…

(she is a Virgo)

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KillarneyVampSlayer@reddit

What I remember is ordering it from the bartender who had served me for years and his reaction (which was laughter).

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OkieDragonSlayer@reddit

Cold beer at JFK airport.

Coming home on leave to Oklahoma from my Army unit in Germany, right after Desert Storm. We returned to Germany two weeks before my 21st birthday so obviously I wanted to wait. My Commander just shook his head after learning what I was up too, and signed my leave form. He then asked what I was gonna do once stateside for 30 days.

"Iam headed to Lake Texoma to water ski, chase women, and drink alotta beer......but not necessarily in that order......sir"

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Echodad@reddit

Liquid Cocaine shot

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CompetitiveFootball6@reddit

It was in the revolving cocktail lounge at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. I had a strawberry daiquiri because I love a fruity drink and as a bonus it came in a glass boot.

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sravll@reddit

No, but I remember my first non-legal drink. It was a glass of white wine and I got drunk lol

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existdetective@reddit

I turned 21 in Prince William Sound, working on an Exxon Valdez oil spill. When we hit Cordova, my first legal drink was a margarita bought by my boss. We had a beach bonfire & my crewmates gave me a t-shirt with a big red circle, with a line over it & the word “whining.” Which is how I learned that I had inherited the unfortunate Wasmund Whine of my maternal forebears. I immediately started changing my intonation.

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IsThisADream-223@reddit

Tom Collins’s. Yes I’m that old.

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lazygerm@reddit

I got taken out to a bar in Narragansett by my two college buddies. My first legal drink was a Corona.

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CatPurrsonNo1@reddit

Yup! I went to Red Lobster with my family for my birthday, and had a Bahama Mama!

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thedwizz@reddit

Yeah, a can of Red Dog beer… My standards were pretty high back then.

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Capital-Meringue-164@reddit

No drinks for me - found out I was pregnant a month before my 21st birthday. She just turned 29 this weekend and is my BFF, happy to have foregone a drink on my 21st and would do it again a million times over!

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Scruffiella@reddit

18 is the legal drinking age. Went to see a band at fave local hang out on my 18th. Wearing jeans and tee with no makeup. First time I was asked for ID/proof of age was that night. The bouncer laughed when he realised he’d been letting me in for a year or two underage.

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DeFiClark@reddit

Yes, I was 16 in a cafe bar in the South of France. Kronenbourg draft.

Have no recollection of my first legal drink at 21 in the US. It was probably at one of the two neighborhood bars I’d been going to for years.

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Ok_Cloud9042@reddit

Bahama mamma. Applebees

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featurescreature@reddit

A bottle of Sloe gin

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DameEmma@reddit

Glad you are still alive. LOL

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kckitty71@reddit

My 21st birthday was also on a Sunday. Back then grocery stores didn’t sell alcohol on Sundays. I had my first legal drink the day after my birthday. I went to the grocery store and got a bottle of Martini and Rossi Asti Spumante. I’m not sure why I chose that.

Btw, I wonder if we have the same birthday.

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Square_Candle_4644@reddit

I turned 19 on August 31, 1986. The drinking age changed to 21 on September 1, 1986. I think my first drink was quite dull, just a wine cooler.

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iknowyouneedahugRN@reddit

Gin & Tonic at Applebee's.

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Mulva1971@reddit

A piña colada at SFO as I was waiting to fly to Denver. It was uneventful and I was kind of over drinking by 21.

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dinnerwdr13@reddit

It was a Saturday, The first stop was a hole in the wall. Me and my friend were hustling free beers on the pool table (we were APA pool leave rated players), and got into my first bar fight.

I think the first drink was either a jack and coke or southern comfort and coke.

Then we hit two other bars, a strip club, then.....I time warped to Monday.

My first run in with Ling Island iced tea was a few years later, at the Cheesecake Factory in Providence Rhode Island oddly enough. That night was a complete shit show. I don't even know what we did that night aside from going to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and drinks.

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discoprince79@reddit

Zima

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katiekat214@reddit

A daiquiri from a drive through daiquiri stand in Monroe, LA the last weekend you could still buy alcohol at 18 in Louisiana. I turned 18 about a month before and went to visit my best friend at her college because my state had already changed the laws (LA was the last state to cave).

My next legal drinking chance after that weekend was my 21st birthday. An old boyfriend took me out that afternoon to get memberships at all the clubs where he knew the bartenders and got me a kamikaze shot at the club where we’d already been hanging out before then lol.

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MarcoEsteban@reddit

Legal? I started going to bars at 16, so I was served by bartenders, but it wasn't legal for me to be there - so I guess those don't count. But I remember my first time ordering one, and it was an Amaretto Sour. I no longer drink candy, lol.

I turned legal age twice though. In Texas, they changed the legal age from 19 to 21 3 months after I turned 19. So, at some point I had two first legal drinks. But, I was a little binge drinker by that time, so I do not remember them.

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SleepyKoalaBear4812@reddit

Yup! Amaretto and 7UP when I was 18.

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Opak03@reddit

I don't remember my first legal drink. I do remember scoring an eighth of dirt weed on my 21st birthday.

My friend and I went back to his place. We smoked and then watched James Bond movies until we passed out.

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casewood123@reddit

Yes. Drinking age was 18 and my uncle brought me to the bowling alley after work to buy me my first legal drink.

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zuuzuu@reddit

Drinking age is 19 in my Canadian province, but my first legal drink was when I was in Quebec where it was 18, at a bar during Carnaval.

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ClaireHux@reddit

Amaretto sour. 😂

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IAmEchosDad@reddit

I used to drink Amaretto Stone Sours before I was 21.

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jessper17@reddit

Yes. It was a tom Collins at a super divey bar with my mom’s sister.

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butterflygardyn@reddit

I went to college at 17. Drinking age was 18. I went into a bar I'd been going in for weeks, showed my ID and asked for my birthday drink. The bartender thought it was hilarious.

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Character-Yak-4084@reddit

And…?

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Character-Yak-4084@reddit

Did you get one?

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butterflygardyn@reddit

Drank for free all night.

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IAmEchosDad@reddit

Jägermeister.

Three shots back to back.

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Deathclown333@reddit

Pretty sure it was a rum and Coke, but that's the only drink I remember that night.

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erino3120@reddit

Huskies, UCONN.

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DoughnutConstant5390@reddit

I remember the most popular alcohol beverages sold in the mid to late 80's were the wine coolers.They were almost as popular as beer.Seagram's,California cooler.They are alot less popular now, then the were back in those days.

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GozerDestructor@reddit

that was my first! I drank only on rare occasions before I was 21 (never had a fake ID, didn't have a lot of friends to hook me up), and I remembered these as being easy to drink when my parents had occasionally let me have a small amount as a teen.

Bartels and Jaymes, probably, because I liked their commercials (and didn't realize at the time that they used professional actors, not their actual corporate executives...)

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DoughnutConstant5390@reddit

I tried them when I was under 21 as well.They were tasty as a young kid drinking them,but now almost 40 years later as an adult,It would be hard to still drink them anymore, because they are loaded with alot of extra sugar added to them to make them taste good.

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Miniscule_Platypus@reddit

Oh, they were DEFINITELY marketed to the teen demographic. Drank a 4 pack all by myself when I was 16 in like an hour because they were sweet and tasted good, puked all over my friend’s sister’s apartment and I don’t think I ever drank another wine cooler again.

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Miniscule_Platypus@reddit

Bartles & Jaymes FTW, lol.

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DoughnutConstant5390@reddit

I forgot to mention them,but they were popular too.

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SherryNilesNYY@reddit

A Cape Cod on my 21st birthday celebrating in an Atlantic City casino with my mom.

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Extra_Bite4677@reddit

It was a Mexican restaurant in Post Alley in Seattle. Frozen Margarita.

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Extra_Bite4677@reddit

It was a Mexican restaurant in Post Alley in Seattle. Frozen Margarita.

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throwaway8675309999s@reddit

Benihana on my 21st bday doing sake shots with my grandma. We were obliterated and apparently obnoxious to the point the rest of my family told us to walk home (which we did, since it was only 10 blocks)

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SherryNilesNYY@reddit

A Cape Cod on my 21st birthday celebrating in an Atlantic City casino with my mom.

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ConcreteDraftsman_05@reddit

Yup. I was at a hotel with my girlfriend and I headed to the hotel bar to buy my first legal beer: Me: “Hi, do you have Fosters?” Bartender: “Yes.” Me: … Bartender: … Me: … Bartender: … Me: “May I have one?” Bartender: “I need to see some ID.”

hands her my driver’s license

Bartender, irritated: “[sarcastic] Happy birthday. [/sarcastic]”

After a beat, she finally slid the beer to me.

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swigs77@reddit

Beer at ozfest. Gates opened at 1100am. Beer not on sale until noon because it was a Sunday. I watched Sevendust standing next to the beer concession staring at the dude with my id out. 16oz bud light.

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Stunning_Donkey_3383@reddit

I was too drunk to remember.

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k2j2@reddit

It was a bar that offered a fish bowl filled with a Sea Breeze cocktail. Needless to say I puked and could never drink one again. 😂🤢

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DriedUpSquid@reddit

A Miller High Life my grandmother gave me.

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abfuch@reddit

Long Island

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alegna12@reddit

Yes. My colleagues took me out for dinner/drinks after work. I don’t remember what I drank, but who I had it with.

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Theflyinghillbilly3@reddit

I can’t remember, and neither can my husband! We both drank quite a bit in college, underage and in a dry county. By the time it was legal, it was really not very exciting.

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Bl1nk9@reddit

I remember going down the street to a restaurant for an official one. Think it was a Sunday, and I was likely still hanging from Saturday night. As was the norm at that time. Went to the restaurant where we never got carded, so, fairly anti-climactic.

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Alienspacedolphin@reddit

Legal? It was the day of my last final, graduation week in college. We had a HUGE party. (Legal drinking was a bit anticlimactic for me)

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icedyoga@reddit

Yes! Had been drinking legally in Australia for a couple weeks, then the actual day was in the Philippines- my younger sister went to the hotel bar to get me a special drink, and the bartender got her something along the lines of a grasshopper, NOT what I was used to drinking in 1990, but it was sweet she remembered. My mom wasn’t even with us that night, let alone remembering the significance of a 21st.

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Administrative-Bed75@reddit

I went to a local queer bar and offered an Amaretto Sour because my friend said they were good. Reader, they are not good.

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ChetIgnatowski@reddit

I was in Nags Head on vacation and bought a 12 pack of PBR and drank 3 of them sitting on the beach.

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One-Entertainment457@reddit

Legal? Ugh... no

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Separate-Counter-508@reddit

Nope never have drank so jokes on you

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Paper_Street_Soap@reddit

Yeah, but I was 35. Probably not the theme of this post, lol

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Pillsy74@reddit

My birthday was a Saturday. At midnight I went to the local market, got a six pack of Molson Ice for me, a bottle of Kahlua for my girlfriend, and had some beer with my roommates back at my house.

Had a keg party at our house the next night. My wife isn't as big on Kahlua as she used to be!

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plantingflowers2022@reddit

Zima. At an Irish Pub 🤦‍♀️

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ChetIgnatowski@reddit

That’s a baller move - ordering Zima

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deagh@reddit

It was an amaretto cocktail that was billed as an Italian margarita that my roommate at the time took me out and bought for me. I appreciated the gesture but I thought it was nasty. Gave mean lifelong distaste for alcohol. I rarely drank until I was 30 or so and then just stopped entirely. I haven't had a drink in more than 25 years

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Tasty_Context5263@reddit

I remember my first illegal drink.

I was home alone in our apartment. My mom was out of town, I was in college, 20 years old, and curious about the wine coolers in the fridge. I drank several, laid on the floor in the hallway listening to the TV with our wiener dog looking at me worriedly. Took a little sleep right there while thinking, "This is ok."

I woke up sicker than I had ever been in my life (and that is pretty sick). I barfed for three days straight and could only crawl to the door to let our pup out to quickly pee. That adorable angel just stepped outside the door, did his business, and came back in. He normally was a runner and had to be leashed, but he took mercy on me and clearly recognized my desperation, as well as my inability to be upright.

I occasionally will have a drink on a holiday, but I have never, ever gotten drunk again. It traumatized me more than the Hunting Debacle of 1979.

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AustinGroovy@reddit

December baby. Sunday night, studying for finals. All the bars closed. I had one can of "Schlitz" on my shelf (warm), popped it and kept studying.

Of course, the following semester we'd have 'Dollar Pitchers' before lecture class with a big basket of salted un-shelled peanuts. College towns are nice.

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Sad_Construction_668@reddit

I do! my friend took me to a brewpub and we had flights . We had both done a lot of silly drinking before we were legal, but it was the mid 90’s and we wnated to be “beer guys”

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Borsodi1961@reddit

Yes! Red wine. I had been drinking in that same bar for at least a year beforehand, but they never carded me. I went on my 21st birthday and happily told the bartender it was my 21st birthday! He was a little upset to realize he’d been serving an underage person for the past year, but he got over it pretty quick and wished me a happy birthday.

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Greenfireflygirl@reddit

It was legal for my parents to give me drinks growing up, so probably a little bit of wine with dinner on special occasions.

Out though, my dad took me to red lobster for lunch on my nineteenth birthday, I had a long Island iced tea. Of course I did!

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fethers42@reddit

Orange UDL on the way to the pub then beers

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Trolldad_IRL@reddit

Drinking beer as an American youth in Germany at 16 - 1982.

No one in my family drank beer, so it was not something I’d been around very much at all. I had seen and smelled beer, maybe even sipped some from a rogue cup of Budweiser at some event, but thought it was stinky and terrible.

My parents sent me to Hamburg, Germany for a month to stay with my mother’s friends. Their daughter and her BF took me out at night on a few occasion and I was allowed to drink beer. The first was some light lager and I did not care for it, then I had a something a little darker and bolder and while it was still not quite my thing, it was much better than the light lager. That was the foundation for my experimenting with beer and learning that beer was not just “one thing” but that there were many different types.

I am now a certified beer snob.

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lawstandaloan@reddit

First legal drink was the weekend after boot camp graduation in 1985. That was back when if you were in the military then you could drink and buy liquor on base without having to be of legal age.

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divergurl1999@reddit

You could still buy at “some” posts in the mid1990s at 18 while the rest of the country was 21. I was stationed at Ft Huachuca, AZ (one of the few you could buy/drink on post at 18) in 1995. I was 21 already, but watching the kids drink was amusing. I have no clue if that same rule applies today.

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lionbacker54@reddit

Yes. I was a college teaching assistant. Most of my coworkers were adults in their 40s. On my 21st birthday, they took me out to a bar. I ordered a Pabst blue ribbon.

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furie1335@reddit

Red wine at an Italian restaurant

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Ymisoqt420@reddit

I had a zima lol

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drinkme0@reddit

My dad gave me a sip of his scotch when I was less than 5. It was terrible. He made me spit it out outside. Those were the days!

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ConsciousChicken1249@reddit

Sake bombs

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TexCOman@reddit

It was my birthday at Dave and Busters. Spent it with my parents and siblings. I bought a bud light. lol

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b_o_m@reddit

A shot of Jack Daniels with a Miller Genuine Draft. The first (legal) combo of many to come over the following years.

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general-illness@reddit

Played golf on my 21st birthday and after the round one of the guys bought me a beer. Kinda boring.

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ExtraAd7611@reddit

I think it was a Sambuca on a visit to Italy when I was 18. I for some reason thought that was cool even though I don't really like licorice.

Back in America, it was (pulls hat over face) an amaretto sour in a bar 1 minute after midnight on my 21st birthday, and the bartender didn't check my id until I shoved it in his face. Then he shook my hand and gave it to me for free.

My first time purchasing booze in a bar ever was at Tipitina's in New Orleans circa 1989. I was 17 but I could have been 7 and nobody working there could have cared less. Also when I was 18 nobody was carding in Nevada.

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boybrian@reddit

My 21st was also a Sunday so I drove over the NC line to buy beer.

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DeaddyRuxpin@reddit

First legal was a shot of tequila at my 21st birthday party.

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bradyba@reddit

I waited until midnight the day before my birthday and went to Hucks convenience store/Gas station in Decatur, Illinois. What did I choose? A 40 oz bottle of Old English malt liquor. Why? Because Ice Cube and Dr. Dre were rapping about it.

It sucks.

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divergurl1999@reddit

Okay. That’s hilarious. 😆

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Poultrygeist74@reddit

A flight at a local brewery. Then I went bar hopping to get “free” birthday drinks, they were actually buy one get one free. About the fifth or sixth place, I threw up in the bar, fortunately my friends were looking out for me and cleaned up and got me home. I’ve never been that drunk before or since.

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Mysterious-Vehicle72@reddit

Rum and Coke. Was the only thing I drank (when I did) cause I didn’t know any other names of drinks.

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jbenze@reddit

I used to go out after work with my coworkers when I was 17. Thy would order pitchers of beer and I didnt drink. One night my coworker just poured me a Guiness and it became a regular thing. Without drinking after work, I don't know if I would have lasted that long at that job.

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froction@reddit

I am from Louisiana and in the 90s it was sort of legal to drink at 18, then when I turned 19 it was illegal, then when I turned 21 it was legal again.

I don't have specific memories of any of those occasions.

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WokeAssMessiah@reddit

Please stop reminding me of all the Long Islands I drank on my 21st

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grateful_john@reddit

I turned legal drinking age twice. My freshman year of college the drinking age in NY state was 19, I was the first person in my dorm to turn 19 (November birthday) so someone drove me to the beer distributor to buy five cases of Old Milwaukee (our beer of choice driven primarily because it was cheap). So a bottle of Old Swill was my first legal drink. NY raised the drinking age to 21 during my sophomore year (with no grandfather clause) so I became legal to drink (again) my junior year. No idea what my first drink was that time although probably Old Milwaukee again.

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jbell1974@reddit

Long Island Iced Tea here too… I had no idea how strong they really were. They were so good I drank waaaayyy too many. 🤮

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jbenze@reddit

Not my first drink but a drink of SO many terrible decisions.

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paddedpothead420@reddit

My first legal drink was at my job, a Mexican restaurant. My fellow line cooks bought me a bucket of beers. The bartender bought me a a white Russian half a dozen waiters and managers bought me shots of tequila and a couple margaritas. Birthday is on New Year's Day so I got plenty wasted with the following 2 days off for recovery.

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PluckGT@reddit

It was a terrible fruity beach themed drink in one of those awful late 80’s nightclubs somewhere in Orange County CA. My friend ‘Mouse’ brought me there on my 21st birthday, he wasn’t even 21 but had a fake ID… his name on the ID was one of the Ramones, pretty hilarious. But yeah, terrible drink, awful nightclub… It was all lit up playing not not my music and me standing there awkwardly with this stupid drink in a stupid glass. Thanks Mouse! Love ya buddy!

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EuphoricAd1928@reddit

I don’t!!!! Should we?

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ismybrainonthefritz@reddit

No. I honestly can’t remember.

What I do remember is that my dad forgot my 21st birthday. I’m 52 now and still remember the surprise and guilt on his face when I pointed it out to him a week later.

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Red_Cloud1867@reddit

Yes. I fell in love with the Bartender.

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j-endsville@reddit

Pretty sure it was a Rolling Rock at the Black Cat in DC. 1994.

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BperrHawaii@reddit

I had a beer at 3 yrs old. Yeah, I’m Gen X

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divergurl1999@reddit

I was 4 when an uncle gave me a drink of his Busch! You are not alone! Still not really a beer drinker. Not even sure if I spelled that right! Lol

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numbersgal19@reddit

Shortly after midnight went to a hotel bar with my boyfriend. Had a kamikazee on the rocks, and was home in 30 minutes. It was a work night and had to start at 7am.

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roanokephotog@reddit

We had partied a bit at people's houses in the years before, typically beer, occasionally tequila... My 21st I happened to be in a college town for a work meeting and my wife drove to town to celebrate with me! My coworkers and wife got me absolutely destroyed starting with a blowjob and having WAY too many shots of Jaegermeister after 😂

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doobette@reddit

Gin and tonic

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Temporary_Way_9563@reddit

Yep, a Budweiser drinking age was 18 at the time. I was in the Navy stationed in Mississippi.

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Angry_GorillaBS@reddit

Nope

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Miniscule_Platypus@reddit

I went to Taco Cabana at midnight of the morning of my 21st birthday and got a margarita. Three days later saw Metallica play the Astrodome with Faith No More and Guns ‘n Roses. The day after that was Lollapalooza. Epic 21st birthday week.

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divergurl1999@reddit

Omg I’m jealous!!!

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gravitydefiant@reddit

My first legal drink was in England, during my semester abroad. I was just 20, and had to play it cool because drinking at 20 in England is not a big deal at all.

It really sucked when I came home and was still 20 and had to go back to not being legal for 5 months until my birthday.

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heldaway@reddit

It was a “blow job” shot

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hold--the--line@reddit

I was on a hovercraft going over the english channel from England to France alone, probably had a beer of some sort. It was very unmemotable. The trip was great though. Drank way too much before then to have it register as a memory :(

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polkastripper@reddit

Yep, it was a Miller Lite in a can.

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CollectsTooMuch@reddit

Rum and Coke. I had been going to this bar for about for a few years with friends. They got caught with minors one day and started carding everybody. I had talked to the guy at the door lots of times. He made me show my ID. I just turned 21. He was pretty surprised because I was there regularly to shoot pool and for live music. The bar is still there. I saw Pantera and a few other up and comers play there and when the guys from panthers were in town when they got more famous, you would see them drinking and hanging out sometimes.

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Silver_Breakfast7096@reddit

Vaguely.

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FoolMe5x@reddit

Went to a pub that had a good mix of ages, my Dad came along and bought me my last illegal pint after 11pm, and my first legal at 12:01am on my birthday.

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MorteDagger@reddit

Rum and coke. My go to lol

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MariaInconnu@reddit

I remember getting the drink, not sure what it was. Probably a Guinness.

I do know where it was - in a bar, at the Irish traditional music session I'd been participating in since I was 19, sitting on the deck out back.

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Prior_Particular9417@reddit

I had a mudslide at TGI Friday's!!

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raisinghellions@reddit

Used to work at Fridays, my GAWD those mudslides were so good.

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divergurl1999@reddit

Tequila Sunrise, extra Grenadine.

If I even touched anything with grenadine ever again, it would literally kill me. That red food coloring now gives me such an allergic reaction, it triggered a heart attack in me September 2022. I have to watch everything I consume now. Welcome to your 50s ladies and gentlemen.

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uberphaser@reddit

I was 20, about 4 days from my 21st and drank legally for the first time in Kendall, England on a road trip with a friend's family up to St. Andrews, Scotland. I turned 21 in St. Andrews and had my very first single-malt powered blackout and injury too!

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Key_Swordfish_4662@reddit

First year university, family came down to London, ON to take me out for lunch. Had a pint of Heineken at TJ Baxters with my dad. Was the first of many drinks that fateful day…

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raisinghellions@reddit

Beer from a keg my boyfriend bought me 😂

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AdTemporary7651@reddit

I went to Tully’s, in Harrisonburg, VA just after midnight when I turned 21 (1992). A buddy of mine bought me a Long Island iced tea. It was the first one I’d ever had & it went down easy!

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WinterBackbone@reddit

By then time I turned 21, I was married with a child. Started drinking at 12 but didn’t really get into it. I’m thankful it was never a crutch/problem. (Vodka was my drink of choice for a hot minute.)

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crankypickle@reddit

I do indeed. I was 19 and it was a Tom Collins. Funny thing is I can’t remember the last time I had that particular drink. It’s not one I’d order now — a bit too sweet.

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smappyfunball@reddit

I’ve never had a legal drink.

I went to rehab when I was 17 and I’ve been sober ever since. I’m 57.

I symbolically bought a bottle of beer on my 21st birthday and poured it in the gutter though.

I don’t recall the brand but it was in a green bottle and it was German, I’m pretty sure.

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Hotsaucejimmy@reddit

Yep. I went directly to the bar I’d been hanging at for the last 3 years.

Showed my ID for the first time and dude said, “thanks for acting right. Happy birthday. What can I get you”?

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angie50576@reddit

I was in my college apartment and we had a party, it started out with rum punch and then ended up with just shots of rum. I threw up and ruined my favorite pair of Express Jeans. Hahaha.

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siciliana___@reddit

A few sips of white wine. I was 7 1/2 months pregnant so 🤷🏻‍♀️.

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Epicassion@reddit

No, I’d been drinking for 5-6 years by then. Don’t bother drinking any more, miss bourbon once in a blue moon.

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0hheyitsme@reddit

I quit drinking before I turned 21,lol.

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GirlSprite@reddit

I went to the liquor stir and bought a case of beer. I don’t remember what kind. I told the clerk “it’s my birthday!” I was all excited.

He said to me, “It’s all downhill from here.”

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WhyLie2me18@reddit

Legal Tom Collins. Was just talking about this the other day.

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Aggressive_Battle264@reddit

Haha yeah - it was at a bar that I had been going to occasionally and being served without showing ID for a bit. It was on my 21st and i was so happy to show my license. The bartender was decidedly not amused by it was a different time lol

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Many_Buddy_98@reddit

Legal? Not really, but I definitely remember the first time I personally bought myself an illegal beer. I was 19 or 20, attending my first (and last) White Sox game at the old Comiskey Park shortly before it was demolished. The beer vendor didn't care, and neither did my friend's dad who took us to the game. (And fortunately he also drove!)

It was truly an awesome experience.

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Salty-Gas-1172@reddit

I had a drink the bartender called breathless. It was 7 layered alcohols in a martini glass meant to be drank all at once. It was on the house. I don't honestly remember what else I drank that night but it was a long time ago.

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Majik9@reddit

19, Windsor, Ontario and ordered a Labatt's Blue

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Itsalovelylife333@reddit

Flaming doctor pepper

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Criticallyoptimistic@reddit

No, not the legal ones. I looked older and I was buying regularly at 17yo. Same store, nice lady, we'd chat a little, and I'd be on my way. I remember once I was wearing my class ring with the graduation year being the next year.

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StarDewbie@reddit

Nah, I don't drink and detested alcohol the times I'd tried it before I was 21, so it was no biggie when I did to get blitzed or anything. I've never been drunk in my life.

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Mindless-Baker-7757@reddit

I think I was with my sister and of course I did not get carded.

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brzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz@reddit

My college took us to a computer science conference in New Orleans in 99'. I turned 21 the day we arrived. I had a Planters Punch at the first bar we walked by in the French Quarter. It was free.

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TrickQuiet9630@reddit

yeah, it was kind of a '16 candles' moment. my maternal grandfather passed a couple days before my birthday. not wanting his funeral to put a cloud over my big day, mom and grandma rushed the service.

but they got my birth date wrong by one day and scheduled his memorial on my birthday. i didn't say anything, wasn't that important, and i didn't want to make them feel bad. after the funeral, we went out for dinner and i ordered a g&t. the server carded me, and without thinking, handed her my real d/l. when she checked it, she said 'happy 21st!'. there were a lot of tears, and a very generous check that year.

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CraftAvoidance@reddit

I was 48.

Yes really.

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Ravenloff@reddit

No, but I remember my first time drunk...ugh...

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donaldtrumpshearts@reddit

The bartender at my local dive had been serving me White Russians for two years when I told her it was my 21st birthday

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8nikki@reddit

I bought a pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade from the grocery store since my boyfriend at the time wasn't 21 so we didn't go out lol

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Dr_Overundereducated@reddit

My first legal drink happened in New Orleans when the drinking age was still 18. I was 20.

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Stereo_Jungle_Child@reddit

Drinking age was 19 in my state at the time. I had a draft beer (Schmidt) in my local bar. It was 30 cents.

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Bug_Calm@reddit

Yep. Friends were celebrating my 21st birthday, and I got to write an actual check for some Moosehead. In the memo section, I wrote "BOOZE!"

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ForsakenHelicopter66@reddit

I'm 'beginning' genx (65) and my first legal drink was a beer in Georgetown at 18.

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IT_learning_only@reddit

I don't recall my first legal drink. I remember my first drink in general. I think by the time I was legal, it wasn't something that memorable. I recall teaspoons of peppermint schnapps when I was around 5, and I recall my first beer at 8.

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Panda_powered_Poots@reddit

I can tell you countless tales of my illeagle drinking debauchery, but legal? meh. who knows.

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Step_Aside_Butch_77@reddit

My dad took me to one of the better steakhouses in town.

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Auntie_Nat@reddit

MY 21st was also on Sunday and I did the same thing. I don't remember exactly what my first drink was but I had an unfortunate combination of beer, golenschlager, and jagermeister that made an encore appearance on the way home.

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RaccoonHaunting9638@reddit

Who waited until legal?? What?

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SuperJen411@reddit

My birthday is around Thanksgiving, and we went to the official birthday bar in the city where I went to college. I had free beer (Coors Lite 😆) and people bought me shots of Wild Turkey and vodka cranberry in honor of the holiday

I was very very sick afterwards

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BuckyRainbowCat@reddit

I live in a part of the world where it's legal to drink at age 18. I think I had a beer with my dad in the basement or something.

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Accomplished_Bus3614@reddit

Sure do! My dad took me to a BBQ restaurant. We had dinner and a couple of rounds of Sam Adams beers.

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CapitalFisherman5841@reddit

I went to the Scottish Inn bar and got a shot of Scotch. It did not taste like butterscotch 😅

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Zadyria_Gelm@reddit

My 21st was also on Sunday. I went to the university village pizza place, had a big slice, and a Red Wolf beer. They wished me happy birthday.

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lemmysbetter@reddit

I don't. And now that I'm thinking about it I don't even remember my first drink. And I don't drink much. Put both of those events are 30 to 35 years old now.

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Jmckeown2@reddit

My dad took me to a bar, and insisted I get carded for my first “legal” drink. He then asked the bartender (he was a regular) what would get the job done. So Long Island Iced Tea. (yawn)

By that point I was regularly dropping shots of grain alcohol so he was a little disappointed in how hard it didn’t actually hit me.

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silverladder@reddit

The day I turned 21 I was living in Flagstaff, AZ and attending NAU. I skipped classes and drove (in the morning) to a gas station/convenience store called the El Gallo Deli. Bought beer, champagne, and 40 ouncers of Mickeys. I was scheduled to be in a Kit Kat commercial being filmed in town the next day at the Orpheum Theater. I was violently ill, so I called a friend and told him to go as me. He filled in and made something like $350 for an hour or two of “work” (sitting in a theater chair, acting like he was watching a movie).

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manhands007@reddit

4-pack of Bartles & James berry wine coolers. Austin, TX, near UT campus. Walked from a party over to the convenience store. Waited until 12:05 AM to walk up to the counter. There was a cop near the counter and the clerk looked at my ID and said "This is tomorrow's date." I pointed at the clock and he glanced at it, then at the cop. Cop smiled and said "happy birthday."

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pegggus09@reddit

Yep. Bartender (who was a fellow college student at our small school, so he knew me) gave me a free shot of Jack Daniel’s.

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MNPS1603@reddit

My 21st was a Thursday, first week of fall semester. It was kind of a perfect storm for a night to go out. I remember I got out of school around 5, drove straight to a gas station and bought a 12 pack of Bud light. I wasn’t much of a drinker before turning 21, so that night my intention was to actually get drunk. I drove the 12 pack home and waited on my roommate to get there, we got started, then picked up a friend and hit the bars. I definitely got drunk, but not sick.

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VitaWright@reddit

My mother was from Denmark so drinking was normal in our house. A glass of wine for dinner and so on.

The first time I got to drink out was at a restaurant in Canada when I was 20. The legal drinking age was 19 there.

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Anthropic_me@reddit

Yep Budweiser. My go to was Medium 190 Octane Daiquiri with 2 extra shots of everclear.

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Ledophile@reddit

JD & Coke………..

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GeoHog713@reddit

Yup.

Had the flu. Had A single Guinness on the couch and then passed out. Heck of a birthday

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hugatree2023@reddit

Mine was a mojito and later that week a vodka paralyzer with my Dad who still loves to tell how hilarious he thought it was that I just said “vodka paralyzer” like a badass as soon as the server got to our table. I don’t think I ever drank either of those ever again. Ended up being more of a beer and wine gal but now I don’t drink at all…

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tango421@reddit

I don’t. I got to drink as a kid and even as a young teen before legal age, I would drink with the family.

Oddly enough, my parents and grandparents were totally cool with it and encouraged me to try stuff. Might as well learn stuff in that setting and get drunk the first time in a safe space. The first time I threw up mom and dad were there to help and give advice.

When I hit legal age at the end of high school, I could drink college kids to the ground.

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Ok_Key_4731@reddit

Yup. A fuzzy navel at a bar in Athens, OH at midnight with my now ex-husband.

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60sStratLover@reddit

I’ve been drinking since I was 14, so no, I dont remember at all my first drink after turning 18 (the legal age back then)

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OnlyGuestsMusic@reddit

I’d assume my 21st birthday, as I was a daily drinker from like 15 to 22.

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DryFoundation2323@reddit

Not really. I have been drinking for so long at that point that it really wasn't even a blip on my radar.

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purplepeopleeater333@reddit

I had a final to study for so we went to the bar, I had a MGD. And then went home to study and my friends stayed at the bar.

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_bingo_bronson@reddit

mine actually was a long island iced tea at neo in chicago on my 21st birthday.

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rottenbox@reddit

Philthy mcnastys on upper James in Hamilton with my friends on my 19th birthday. I assume it was pitchers of Canadian or export but that info is lost to time.

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FKpasswords@reddit

I was a raging alcoholic by the time I was legal….

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moxiemoon@reddit

Vodka cran of course!

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Grafakos@reddit

Mine was in fact a Long Island Iced Tea (several, to be precise), at a long-extinct college bar.

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jaxbravesfan@reddit

I was already quite the accomplished drinker before turning the age to legally do so, but I do remember my first legal drink. On my 21st birthday, my college roommate and I went to a bar in the middle of the afternoon and drank vodka martinis.

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sterling3274@reddit

Went to The Penalty Box with my one friend who was 21 and another who had a fake. Got pretty drunk but not terrible. My first shot was Bacardi 151 and Tobasco. It was obviously terrible

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Van1sthand@reddit

Yes. On my 21st birthday I walked to the corner store by my boyfriend’s apartment (where I shopped a lot) and bought a bottle of wine. The guy did not card me and I had big time baby face, I looked maybe 16. I was PISSED because I suddenly realized I could’ve bought whatever I wanted from this guy all along.

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NewtLevel@reddit

My bestie and I went to the neighborhood pub we'd been frequenting for a couple of years already. For some reason she -- a couple months younger than me! -- decided to tell the bartender, who knew us, that it was my 21st birthday. There were no consequences, she did not get carded (she was the reason we never got carded in the first place, she had a much more mature look than I did) and my rum & coke was free.

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Bob_12_Pack@reddit

After class I walked across the street from my dorm and bought some beer and came back to the dorm and had a couple and watched the news coverage of the assault on the Branch Davidian compound. That was 33 years ago today.

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Least-Enthusiasm7239@reddit

Happy birthday. Unfortunate to have that be part of your memories if your 21st.

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thewatchwinder@reddit

my aunt was a lounge performer and for my 21st birthday, she happened to be doing a show...so my family and like 10 of my friends got a table center of the floor and got rowdy...ish...at her sgow. it was awesome, got pulled on stage. i drank my normal (id been drinking underage for 3 years). gin and tonics and manhattans (i was a bougie 21 yr old).

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shooflypie@reddit

A coworker bought me a prairie fire, half vodka half Tabasco. Nearly barfed, didn't. 0/10 don't recommend.

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Unlucky_Profit_776@reddit

Champagne at a wedding at 16. Mmm champagne

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juiceguy@reddit

Nope. I'm 55 and I still haven't had my first drink.

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squirtloaf@reddit

I don't remember it at all! I'd already been drinking regularly by then, so it wouldn't have been a big deal.

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brunoponcejones03017@reddit

Lived in NYC, When I turned 18 the legal age was bumped up to 19 when I turned 19 it was bumped to 21. I remember that but not the drink!

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RonnieG3@reddit

A Sharkbite in a fishbowl as a mug at the Rock It club in Tampa Fl

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Emergency_Reading991@reddit

I was a very naïve 18 year old, not knowing much about alcohol brands. I remember agreeing to meet my 6th form mates in a bar in town. I had a paper 1 year passport with me as ID and going into the bar I only recognised one drink on the pump. So as I think, awkward kid, I ordered a pint of Guinness ! Two pints later I was full …

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kcfdr9c@reddit

I was in training in the Army. It was a Sunday. A buddy and I went to the on-post convenience store (shopette) bought a six pack, drank a few, in bed before 9 o’clock.

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Andyman1973@reddit

Shopette for the win!

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Lost_Taste_8181@reddit

I guess technically it was ILLEGAL, but I when I was 17 I was served a Heineken on a flight to England (from the US). The flight attendant realized I was underage when she came by later and asked if I wanted anything else and I asked for a strawberry daiquiri.

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Junior_Statement_262@reddit

Yep, me and my little band of freaks went to Club DV8 in San Francisco for Depeche Mode night. It was 1993. Good times.

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Xiolaglori@reddit

Margarita in Tijuana, I was 18, before you needed a passport to cross the border.

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

Yup. My friends took me out to a strip club for my 19th birthday. They had a drink called the "Happy birthday" that was a bit of a tradition.

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politerage@reddit

I had a delicious pint of half & half (Guinness and Harp) at my favorite pub in Boston which I had been a regular at for about a year under a fake ID. They were not amused to find out it was my 21st birthday. The pub still exists today. I wish I could give them a shout out but I dunno given the context ;)

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BeeNo7178@reddit

Fuzzy Navel with my best friend at Señor Frogs. We thought we were sophisticated. Now I wouldn't drink it at all. 😂

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jamescockroft@reddit

Short answer… Nope.

Longer answer… still no. Oh well.

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OkGeologist2229@reddit

I went to a bar in Morrison, Colorado and asked for a pina colada as I didn't know what to order. The bartender snarled at me and said they don't make that fru-fru shit so I ordered a Fat Tire beer.

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onihr1@reddit

21ist birthday, walked into a package store and wasn’t even carded….. you mean I could have done this yesterday!!!

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Key-Introduction-126@reddit

I unfortunately had too many drinks prior to my 21st birthday and on my 21st birthday to remember what I had. My ex threw me a party at her place in college and invited all my buddies over and had likely both beer and hard liquor. If I had to guess, probably Cuevo and Skyy. What I do remember was spending most of the night next to the toilet and my then GF being pissed at me.

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Much-Injury1499@reddit

It was the night of the Valentine’s dance during my senior year. My buddies and I drank two Bud Ices each. It was the most fun I’ve ever had at a dance to this day.

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JurisUrsus@reddit

Yes, it was after midnight at a local restaurant I liked. Gf and I went there for some late night snacks while we waited for midnight. I was feeling fancy so I ordered a Manhattan. Said Manhattan proceeded to knock my socks off. We all had a good laugh.

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SushiGirlRC@reddit

Mine was probably a wine cooler at age 18. 3 months later they raised the age to 21.😑

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Rearrangemetilimsane@reddit

18 in LA, Grolsch. 21 in my hometown, Miller Lite Ice.

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nonotburton@reddit

I was with my parents on my 18th birthday. We had a thing for going out for pizza at this place called Mark Twain's on Fridays. My dad bought me my first legal beer, said he'd been waiting for this. We both had. I hate beer, but that was the best beer I've ever had.

I then proceeded to get responsibly plastered with my other friend of legal drinking age the following weekend in the Quarter. He had a buddy that stayed sober to drive us around and generally keep us out of trouble.

Stupid screen getting all blurry.

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PrarieDogma@reddit

Mine was a prairie chicken, which is derived from the prairie fire shot. Usually a shot of tequila mixed with a few dashes of Tabasco. The bartender added a raw egg to it. The shit went down fine, the egg got stuck in my throat which almost had me puking. Fun experience though

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Informal_Daikon_9812@reddit

Miller Genuine Draft. I still have the bottle cap and wrote the date on the inside.

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Ghee-Buttersnaps-@reddit

It was champagne. I bounced up to the bar and told the manager, who was tending bar and had known me for a couple of years, that it was my birthday. She asked which one and I told her it was my 21st. She gave me a dirty look, then pulled out a bottle of champagne for me. She is a still super cool person to this day.

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ideapit@reddit

No. I think I had already been drinking too long by then. 5 years of drinking before I was legal age to do it.

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MarquesTreasures@reddit

yep. and the last one too.

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buttfirstcoffee@reddit

A tequila sunrise

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dstarpro@reddit

Pretty sure it was a Jack and Coke.

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BillyyJackk@reddit

7-Eleven parking lot; 12:01am Saturday, September 22, 1990. Good Times.

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Cflottisme@reddit

21st bday in 1995. It was a Bahama Mama and the nice bartender gave it to me for free.

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47ES@reddit

Had a major midterm, the day after my midweek, 21st. Went to most popular club in town that would get all fake IDs, got in @ midnight, had one drink, some silly shot, it was free for me, but my friends all had to pay for theirs. Stayed for a while then all went home well before last call. Didn't have another drink on my birthday.

Went out the weekend after, drank much more, remember that night well at the same club. Roommate was drinking atomic long Island ice teas (basically a pint of liquor with some ice), had like six, and about died of alcohol poisoning. I was drinking beer. Sobered up real quick keeping him alive all night. Should have called 911 but none of us had insurance and he would be almost as bad off as being dead if he got in an ambulance.

We had a pact on what to do if someone had to go to the hospital. I had car insurance but no car, insurance was dirt cheap. Covered me for bike crashes on public roads. If I broke a leg or got concussed playing sports, MTB, or walking around, they were to toss me and a bike in the street, call 911, and walk away. Never had to do that myself, but we did ride a friend clear across town with a broken collar bone because he didn't think he was covered for the ambulance ride.

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LooneyHK@reddit

My bday is the day after Xmas. We were in small town Oregon at my Mormon grandparents house. Waited until everyone was in bed, called a cab and had them take me to the local watering hole. Don't remember what macro brews I had but the cabbie gave me his card and took me back free of charge!

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Meat_Bingo@reddit

Tequila sunrise.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

Oh that’s funny, because I’m team Long Island also 😂 it was also many pre-legal drinks for me, I could regularly get served by about 19

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9001@reddit

It's been 36 years since I turned 19. No, I don't remember that.

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jcsnipes1969@reddit

Bought a bottle of Glenlivet scotch on my 21st birthday. Clerk didn’t even ask for my ID.

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entropyparty@reddit

I forget where, but my parents took me out to dinner on my 21st birthday and I had my first legal drinks. On my way home, I stopped at Albertson’s to buy my first legal six pack, and they didn’t ask to see my ID

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Oldandcranky973@reddit

lol. I had the same experience and was annoyed they didn’t id me 😂

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entropyparty@reddit

lol. I was more surprised, shocked. But I didn’t show it. And on the way out I thought I could have been buying beer here this whole time.

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Oldandcranky973@reddit

Me too

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PahzTakesPhotos@reddit

I stopped in at the Class 6 on base (the liquor store). To even shop there, you have to have a military ID, so as long as they see it, that's fine.

So, I walked up and set the six pack of Budweiser and a 4 pack of Bacardi Breezers on the counter and held up my ID, my grin as big as all of outdoors. In monotone, he said: "Thank you, your total is [whatever]."

Still grinning I said, "No! LOOK!"

Then in monotone again, he said: "Happy Birthday, your total is [whatever]."

So, Bacardi breezers. I don't remember which flavor.

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oboingadoing@reddit

Not sure exactly but many beers and shots were done that night at a bar. Threw up in the bathroom and did a shot as soon as I got out! Then continued through the night watching a band. Good times!

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Jolly-Sandwich-3345@reddit

I went to a restaurant with my Father and had a screwdriver.

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Privatier2025@reddit

Got a beer at the age of 16.

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Sa7aSa7a@reddit

I don't recall but probably was a Miller Lite. May have been after my birthday. After it became legal, I did a lot less of it

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Norse_By_North_West@reddit

Yeah, I was visiting a friend in Alberta at 18. I didn't know what to order so he got me a Guinness poured with another beer. They actually don't mix, the Guinness sat on top.

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assuredlyanxious@reddit

Black&tan

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xosherlock@reddit

Bass Ale at TGI Friday’s.

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BMisterGenX@reddit (OP)

I remember that at Sam Adams were usually the fanciest you could get there.

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xosherlock@reddit

Wow, yeah that’s right. The days before all the microbrews.

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cjr91@reddit

My parents took me out to eat for my birthday. I had a St Pauli Girl beer.

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StockHour389@reddit

No. It was probably vodka and tonic with lemon, but I have no memory of it. Of course, back then you could drink beer and wine at 18 and nobody ever carded me.

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Vioralarama@reddit

Probably a Zima, wine cooler, or a Michelob Light.

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OUBoyWonder@reddit

Purple Passion, lol. It tasted like Grape Welch's.

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Powerful_Geologist95@reddit

I think it was a tequila sunrise?

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Indygator@reddit

Turned 21 on Sunday. Lined up outside Purple Porpoise in Gainesville, FL just a few minutes before midnight. Walked in at 12 and had my first legal beer. God help me it was a Busch Light.

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Konorlc@reddit

My first legal drink was probably at a bar on the Presidio of San Francisco military base where I was stationed when I was 17. At that time, as long as you were active duty, you could purchase alcohol on base no matter your age.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

A glass of Rosè or Zinfandel at a Sizzler in L.A.

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EmbarrassedAge7612@reddit

21st birthday. My first legal drink was a shot of some horrible bottom shelf whiskey. I’m sure I thought it was fancy back then. Most of that night was a blur and I’m told I had a great time.

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K-Dub59@reddit

First legal drink was a beer. Not even a good beer.

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dafuqizzis@reddit

My first legal drink was the day after my 21st birthday. I had a sort of FWB relationship with a server at a local hotspot, so I had already been going there for a year or more without being carded. When I showed the bartender my ID, he thought it was pretty funny. He gave me a 32 ounce pitcher full of some concoction that I can only describe as a Long Island iced tea on steroids. He called it a “zombie shark bite”. I had to give him my keys in exchange for the free drink. Seemed fair to me.

So I wake up the next morning in my bed, introduce myself to the girl I’m with (who it turned out I went to high school school with), and see my motorcycle in the driveway. A couple of days later I’m back in the club and talking to the bartender and I asked him why he let me drive. He swore that I didn’t stammer, stutter, slur, sway, or any other indication of being intoxicated. I apparently told him I gave the drink away, but I don’t remember any of that.

Some of the best times I ever had I wasn’t even there.

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AssociateGood9653@reddit

We had 3.2% beer in Colorado when I was 18. Probably wasn’t my first legal drink but there was a club called Pogo’s that 18-21 year olds could drink weak beer at. I vividly remember my first drink in a bar. Wyoming had 19 drinking age and one time we drove across the state line after all of our crew was 19. Like dummies, we went into the first bar we saw. It was full of working men like oil roughnecks, ranch hands, truckers, tough grown men who did hard work. We were these college kids from Boulder. It was pretty intimidating to be honest. I walked up to the bar and ordered a whiskey sour.

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assuredlyanxious@reddit

Like most, I had many illegal drinks years before my 19th birthday.

But my first legal drink was in my first year of uni. I went back home to party with friends for the weekend and my mum rented a mini bus to take us to Tequila Willies for dinner. It turned into a dance club after 9. She bought all my drinks. Double tequila shots and corona chasers all night.

Saw my mum and her friend hitting on the bouncer.

Got home at around 3 am and puked all night. Woke up in the fetal position beside the toilet.

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W_J_B68@reddit

My 21st birthday. Biedermans in Plymouth NH. Ordered a beer with lunch and didn’t get carded.

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elwood0341@reddit

18 years old in 1993 in a bar in Beaumont, TX. It was perfectly legal to drink in a bar at 18 if you were with your mother or father. Might still be for all I know.

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Left-Ad4466@reddit

My 21st was on Black Friday. Went out on thanksgiving night to a bar I regularly frequented. Bouncer was pissed when I showed him my real ID and he realized I had been faking it for years. Was given some shot with hot sauce in it and turned around a grabbed a pitcher of beer out of someone’s hands to quell the burn.

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Floopydoodler@reddit

Prairie fire - someone gave me one of those too on my 21st - horrible!!

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Ecstatic-Skill-4916@reddit

It was San Diego and a Hershey's kiss. I can only drink sweet drinks and sambuca.

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dajacketfanOG@reddit

Spent my 21st birthday in a gay bar with my Mom and her friends. I can report I do not remember the first (of many) legal drinks, nor much of the night at the bar. I do remember sitting in an IHOP trying to hit on one of the friends. I had zero game as it was… needless to say me and the nice older lesbian lady were not going to work out.

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drinkslinger1974@reddit

A case of miller lite. I had the honor of purchasing my first case on the way to the bars and strip clubs that we hopped.

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eyehate@reddit

Cement Mixer at Moose McGillycuddy's on Garnet ave. in San Diego.

I was 21 and a day. Could not get off base on my birthday because I had fucking duty.

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Emotional_Ad5714@reddit

My first legal drink was a glass of red wine in Paris at age 17. I also studied abroad in Belgium for 5 months when I was 20 and had numerous Belgian beers in that time. It was interesting, because I came back to the States about 10 days before my 21st birthday and couldn't drink after being able to drink legally the past 5 months.

I'm honestly not sure what I did on my 21st birthday. I think I went to a nightclub that was running an all you can drink for $50 special, or maybe just went out to a quiet dinner with a girl. They tend to all blend together now.

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StopCallingMeGeorge@reddit

I had forgotten that my first legal drink was in Rome at 17. It was a school trip, and our parents had to sign permission slips to show us to drink.

I got smashed on red wine in a restaurant and ended up singing with a group of Japanese tourists.

First legal drink in the US was at 18 at a bar (I made the cutoff when Virginia moved the drinking age to 21). They sold a 32 oz Schlitz called a Schooner, and I had a few. Fortunately, my buddies drove me home and I had to explain to my mom why my car wasn't on the driveway the next morning.

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WarpedCore@reddit

Before I went out I stopped to have a High Life with my old man. Being that he was once a brewery worker at Miller, it just made sense. He still talks about that moment.

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Bdoggg999@reddit

Whiskey sour because that's what my grandma used to get lol. I'm sure the bar gave me bottom shelf stuff with sour mix that might as well have been koolaide. Later moved to Little Kings 40s as my go-to.

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MostExpensiveThing@reddit

Legal? Nope

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Tasia528@reddit

Yes! I turned 21 on a Friday night at midnight after working at Blockbuster video. I was dating my manager at the time and he brought me a four-pack of wine coolers. We drank them at straight up midnight on my front porch.

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therocketn00b@reddit

A Rolling Rock beer I sipped on my 22nd birthday. I was nervous about alcohol since my dad was an alcoholic. I wanted something that tasted kind of like water, so that's what I got.

I had a lot of fun on red wine and much better beers over the years, but thinking back, I sometimes wish I had just never started.

I don't drink anymore, but I'm still dealing with the health effects of overconsumption. Nothing too bad, mostly weight issues. But I miss real beer, and I wish I didn't.

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Sarrintha@reddit

Was my 19th birthday, we were at some family restaurant, real cozy. My parents said "Time to order your first drink" I had no idea what to order, so I asked for a recommendation from the waiter, told her I liked citrusy, or berries, but it had to be sour. She recommended a Singapore Sling. Delish. Still my go-to when I'm at a bar I know can make them and I need to order alcohol.

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BMisterGenX@reddit (OP)

I'm curious where you were where the drinking age was/is 19 rather than 18 or 21

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Sarrintha@reddit

Here are other Canadian provinces with 19 as the drinking age

Drinking Age 19

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Sarrintha@reddit

Ontario, Canada. Canada has drinking and smoking ages by province. Ontario, smoking and drinking is 19, Quebec I know drinking is 18, but I think smoking is 21, someone PLEASE confirm!!! Only reason I know about the drinking is because we get a lot of American's on our highways drunk off their asses in the middle of the night, zooming from Quebec back to New York, where the drinking age is 21. We often have MADD stops between Quebec and the rainbow bridge

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thedumbdown@reddit

I had two first legal drinks. I grew up in Louisiana so I was legal at 18. The state changed the law to 21 when I was 20 so I was illegal until my next birthday. I was working at three different bars during that time too!

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lugnutt73@reddit

Yes I do. I was at a bar in a club on base in the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Grounds sitting on a stool watching OJ get "chased" down the highway.

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BFIrrera@reddit

no. Because I was drinking at 13. By the time I could legally drink I was kind of over it.

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buzzardrooster@reddit

Stopped at Kroger to get my first 6 pack of Killian Red and my license was still warm and the clerk looked at it, then asked me - "what time where you born?" and I was like nice try, 8 am, now give me my beer.

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UpsetBar@reddit

Many of my friends worked at a brewery so it was there. Probably an IPA. The night finished with me pulling up an obnoxious amount of Goldschlager.

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paleotectonics@reddit

Over a case of Special Export Light. I came from La Crosse and SEx and Old Style were the koolaid.

I’d been drinking, mostly beer, since 14 (not a FUCKING thing to do in that horrid city as a teen) but now I have my own beer, dad’s flatbottom, bait and tackle, a Mississippi island, and 2 cases of beer.

Have no idea if I caught anything beyond a hangover, a slight cold, and the most miserable church experience of my life. And my buddy got laid (I found out later…)(not independently confirmed although I really didn’t need to know, fucker, and his gf never had any use for me).

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jadedfaith7@reddit

My first legal drink was on the morning of the very first day of Woodstock 99. That’s a hell of a way to celebrate turning 21.

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fifilachat@reddit

Milwaukees Best in my dorm. My mom came to visit me that day and brought me a birthday cake. She took me to the local grocery store where I was stocking up on snacks before she went back home. I bought a case of “the Beast” and put it in my tiny dorm refrigerator. (I was already an alcoholic, well on my way at this point. But that’s beside the point.) Anyway, I decided to invite people (not friends because I didn’t really have any friends aside from one, just people I knew from my dorm and who I hung out with when drinking) to my “birthday party” but no one came. Because I was a loser and a joke on campus. I probably drank it all. So. Good times. Prologue: I’m 14 years sober now.

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GroundbreakingRip970@reddit

I had been drinking for so long and so often at that point, I think it was a non event but surely I went to a bar and celebrated my birthday?

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Murky_Possibility_68@reddit

Yes, it was at a local (college) bar that then moved downstairs.

And then closed after I graduated.

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Responsible-Bee1194@reddit

Hmm was in the navy and we had a port visit in ft Lauderdale. Went to a bar called the elbow room. Captain Morgan rum was having and event. That's all I remember about that

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PlaysTheTriangle@reddit

My 21st was on Thanksgiving, I stopped at one of the only restaurants open and had a White Russian

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YellowOnline@reddit

No. We didn't really have an age limit for alcohol we were aware of (14 or 16 probably). We were in the pub after school on Fridays at 14 y.o.

I do know my first taste of wine was at my communion when I was 6 y.o.

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Retro_Dad@reddit

There was a place in downtown (long since closed) called the Nankin Cafe, and their specialty drink was called Wanderer’s Punch. That was mine. Very fruity, very boozy.

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

I bought a large bottle of white wine ( the cheaper stuff, like Carlo Rossi or Almaden )

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birdlord_d@reddit

Yes, it was an Amaretto Sour at a bar...we went to a club after but no one was out because my bday is night before a major holiday... kind of a bummer

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ZebraBorgata@reddit

I don’t remember. Shit, now I wish I had. I can make a really good guess or narrow it down to a few possibilities but there’s no way to verify! Well if I ever go back in time. I’ll make a mental note to see what I drank.

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Skellington72@reddit

I worked as a cook at a restaurant that gave employees a free drink after their shift. I worked on my birthday, got my free drink and had many more bought t for me by other staff members.

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Dextropic@reddit

Bought a 40 of Olde English at a little diner in Philly. Didn't even get carded.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

I sure do. I went to one of the local college bars with my best friend and had a Miller Lite with my lunch. It was very underwhelming.

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Cycoviking69@reddit

Technically, my first legal alcoholic beverage was just a beer.

My first alcoholic legal drink (as in hard liquor) was a Four Horsemen shot...for those wondering, it's one shot each of Jim Beam (bourbon), Jameson (whiskey), Johnnie Walker (scotch), and Jack Daniel's (whiskey) all combined into one big shot.

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AnnieFlagstaff@reddit

😳

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rcsanandreas@reddit

Went and saw Molly Hatchet just as they were becoming popular at a small dive bar. Bartender ID’d me and said happy birthday then handed me a kamikaze. I probably had three more then switched to wine coolers.

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nakerusa@reddit

My first legal drink was an Old Fashioned. It still is not my favorite but I have one every now and again.

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Ok-Writing9280@reddit

Yep. It was my 18th birthday and my family had a little dinner at a pub restaurant which had a big pub / club at the back. That I had been going to every weekend for about a year.

My student photo ID was laminated but you got to write your own details on it. So I changed my birthday by a year.

Dad said “let me buy you your first legal beer” and the barman said “hi, My Name. See you later tonight”. 😂

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Quack68@reddit

It’s was overseas.

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Bendr_@reddit

I could legally buy beer when I turned 18. And exactly 60 days later the new 21 law took effect and I could no longer legally buy beer. I then had to wait 2 years and 10 months later to legally buy beer again. Grandfather clause was not provided. This was 1986. Fun fact: to this day I don’t like the taste of beer.

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speed_of_chill@reddit

Oh, I remember my first “legal” drink. It’s the rest of that evening I never could remember, lol!

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Psychological-Lack98@reddit

My dad was managing a bar in Texas. He told me to come by before I went out that night. When I did we stood at the bar and he slapped a $10 on the bar. "We'll drink until this is gone." Draft beers were $1 at happy hour. We had 5 each. After the first one, he said "it looks like you've done this before." Yes. Yes I had.

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North-Bit-7411@reddit

I was coming of age when the drinking age went from 18 to 21. I lived in NY but was on a trip to Vermont with friends and found out that Vermont grandfathered the 18 year olds so they didn’t get screwed. I went to some shithole bar and drank like a fool, legally for the first time.

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Relative_Ad9477@reddit

Zima? lol

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Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit

A free sixer of Bud long necks that my aunt gave me. She was an engineer at the brewery.

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eksoh-eksoh@reddit

Nope! But I do remember by the end of the night, the manager/or bar tender asked if she gave me a bottle of champagne, would I take it to go. Done!

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admiraljkb@reddit

My first LEGAL drink? I remember. It was when I finally got carded. lol

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captain_ohagen@reddit

legal? not at all. given all the drinking we did in high school, it was inconsequential.

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spargel_gesicht@reddit

I do. It was a Tuesday night and it was a Moosehead. Why a Moosehead? I’m not in or from Canada. But it was on the menu. 🤷

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mediaseth@reddit

My last illegal drink was at the (now closed, so I can say this) Yaffa Cafe on St. Mark's in NYC. I'm not entirely sure, but I think my first legal drink was at the Model Cafe in Allston (Boston.) It was at least one of my earliest.

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BMisterGenX@reddit (OP)

I never heard of Model Cafe. My first legal drink was in Kenmore Square. Not sure if it still exists a few times I went to place in Allston, called either Sunset or Sunrise that had the largest number of beers on draft in Mass. Maybe in all of New England

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mediaseth@reddit

That was the Sunset Grill and Tap.. went a few times myself

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Sensitive-Rip-8005@reddit

I don’t remember my “first legal” one. I had moved to a state where the drinking age was 19 and had turned 19 that year so it was no big deal. I just remember I was happy not having to sneak around or have someone buy for me.

I was grandfathered in by the state when the drinking age went to 21 in 1985. In my 21st, I did celebrate my 21st by drinking whisky sours.

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UselessPustule@reddit

Yep! It was a Bellini fishbowl at a restaurant with my parents.

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Formal_Plum_2285@reddit

I’m Danish and when we grew up, legal drinking in bars was 18, however there was no age limit on buying alcohol- or cigarettes for that matter - in shops and supermarkets. So we started drinking and smoking at 13-14. It was completely normal and while some had to hide the smoking from their parents, basically everyone were allowed to drink. It’s so crazy to think about now. We partied every single weekend. I specifically remember a party when we were 16, where my best friend and I had bought a case of beer (30 beers) and a bottle of Tequila to share. And when leaving the supermarket we agreed to also get some vodka, just to make sure, we wouldn’t run out of drinks.

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Prof-Bit-Wrangler@reddit

Legal - No.

No so legal - Hell yes! I was asked to house sit for my neighbors and feed their dogs. One Sunday morning I went to feed their dogs before church. Helped myself to a shot or two of bourbon. Sunday school at church was more interesting that day...

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Reader47b@reddit

A Nutty Irishman coffee, at an Italian restaurant with my parents.

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Jolly-Guard3741@reddit

My first technically legal drink was at the E-Club in Roosevelt Roads, PR where there was no actual age restriction.

My first legally over 21 purchased drink was at my favorite bar / restaurant in our home port where I went to celebrate my birthday some two weeks after my actual birthday.

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toddnks@reddit

First time at 18 or second time at 21? I remember having to get buddies to buy beer for me between the two.

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Chance-Sun-9103@reddit

1st legal? that would be a rum bowl at a tiki bar called Trader Vic's in Portland.

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Important_Caramel577@reddit

I went to college in Las Vegas. I was at the Excalibur casino at 12:01 and ordered some themed Merlin cocktail, complete with giant souvenir glass.

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shatterly@reddit

My parents took me to Red Lobster, and I got a screwdriver.

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2014Subaru@reddit

The old vodka and OJ

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KittyTB12@reddit

Mine was at Hard Rock La Jolla…boyfriend (of 4 years) at the time broke up with me…I think I started with Long Islands…then prob shots. I don’t remember what I drank, where I went or how I got home. 🤷‍♀️and yet…not the worst bday I ever had.

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notawildandcrazyguy@reddit

Definitely remember my first UA drink... not my first legal one

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imrickjamesbioch@reddit

Legal? Bwahaha

I started drinking around 15yo on a trip to reno playing blackjack in a casino with the fam. Had a fake ID at 16 and the rest is history.

Funny enough, my first legal drink might have been in Reno as well. Ski trip in Tahoe for my 21st b-day and I was in a casino gambling / ordering a drink. It was the first time I was ever carded and I started laughing hysterically. The pit boss looked at me crazy cuz I probably been to Reno 20+ times at that point and bout 10+ times in that casino. Even funnier, my GF who was 2 years younger didn’t even get carded, WTF!

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Ceciltheseamonster@reddit

12:01 AM on my 21st at Fat Tuesday’s. It was their grape slush, I believe with rum and a friend had them put a float of Bacardi 151 on top.

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jeffnorris@reddit

I had been going to bars for a couple of years by then so I couldn't really celebrate my birthday 🤣😂

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funktopus@reddit

Legal? Nope.

First drink of beer was Weidemans, Grandma's favorite.

First alcohol, was probably Jack Daniels cause that was always in the house.

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tilt-a-whirly-gig@reddit

Grew up in IL, but my father liked to recreate in WI. I don't know if it is still the case, but WI used to permit anybody to drink in a bar as long as their parents were at the bar with them. My first legal drink was a beer at a bar in Fond Du Lac when I was about 13.

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Carinyosa99@reddit

I was on a study abroad program in Mexico City when I turned 21 and so I was already legal when I arrived a couple months earlier.

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ItsMRCoffeeToYou@reddit

Dad took me to a dive bar on birthday. Had a burger and a beer at noon. Viaduct bar St. Paul MN.

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TheVioletEmpire@reddit

I just realized I don't remember my 21st birthday at all.

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shedwyn2019@reddit

I was 19 taking a summer course at UW. My housemates were kind enough to buy me my first beer, a Dos Equis gold label. It was delicious. They thought it was hilarious I had never had a beer. I don’t remember all the details, it was only one beer and they watched my face carefully as I enjoyed my first sips. That is still a favorite beer of mine. Very refreshing.

It did prejudice me against cheap American beer. In PDX at my small private school the “cheap” beer we brought to parties was Henry Weinhards (early 90s). Never did I ever attend a party where Coors or Bud were served. At best in my life I have sipped a Coors, made a face, and eschewed to drink more. #beersnob

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thonda27@reddit

Ice cream mudslide at TGIF

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jkh7088@reddit

Yep. I was on vacation with my parents. We went out to eat and I walked to the bar and bought a beer. Got carded and the bartender smiled and said happy birthday!

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solar-shock@reddit

Turned 21 on a Monday and got a boilermaker with friends.

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tranquilrage73@reddit

Yep. Long Island Ice tea. What the hell were we thinking??!!

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MysticKei@reddit

I remember avoiding certain friends birthday week because by the time I was 21, drinking to plastered was so passé

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sherlockjr1@reddit

Plastered hell, some of the people I knew drank until they puked because of their friends.

Then there were the mixed shots. 3 wise men (3 named liquors). Four corners (square bottles).

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afriendincanada@reddit

18 years old, in a peeler bar on St Catharine in Montreal

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ShoppingNo7369@reddit

Strawberry daiquiri at age 33 lol 😂.

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TheEvilOfTwoLessers@reddit

I remember the day, technically. And the bar. But I’d already been drinking in that bar and plenty of other bars for a couple of years because none of them carded.

It was probably a Woodpecker Hard Cider. But that’s just a guess. So no, the first legal drink doesn’t stand out against all the not legal ones.

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TheSwedishEagle@reddit

Not really, no. Scotch on the rocks I think.

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Impressive-Yak-7449@reddit

I lived in MD and was going to college in WV. I went home for the weekend and my birthday was Monday, so I played ho okey and got my new license before driving back to WV.

That evening, I went to buy a 6 pack and the convenience store clerk refused to believe that my license was legit because I got it in a different state the same day. Finally, after about 10 minutes, she relented.

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BMisterGenX@reddit (OP)

When I was in college all of the bars that were in walking distance of the college had a rule that they wouldn't accept any out of state license unless you could produce two other documents like a credit card, social security card, school id, some sort of membership card etc, passport and and at least one required a photo on it.

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DoLittlest@reddit

Legal? God we drank from 14 on and got into every college bar w fake IDs from 18 on. So to answer your question, no.

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tattooedlabmonkey@reddit

18 is the legal age where I live. Mom bought me a margarita. It was awful lol

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

Tequila Sunrise.

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No_Entertainer_3898@reddit

Dive bar. Had two bloody Mary’s because I knew I liked “spicy tomato juice” my dad would make with Sunday breakfast. Friends suggested I switch to rum and coke because throwing up bloody Mary’s would be rough. Good call. Was a rum and coke lover until I had to give up soda. Now I’m red wine mom.

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CatRiot2020@reddit

I was maybe 18 and went to the bar with the guys after work. Just had the one, but I was my first “legal” drink. Got really good at hiding the red x on the back of my hand at the bar a couple of years later.

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rundabrun@reddit

I was homeless. I went to bar bar and to be honest, I might have gotten a free Long Island Iced Tea. It's a little blurry. It was a little depressing for the big 21 but I was alright.

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Apprehensive_Gap1055@reddit

Gallo Vin Rose' - I think I was 7.

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Dogstar_9@reddit

I drank so much alcohol between age 16 and 21 that I was already over it by the time I was legal. I had a beer out to dinner with my family and then another beer at a bar with a friend and called it a night.

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Due-Introduction7826@reddit

Oh god. A group of friends took me out to a Mexican restaurant and I drank several shots of tequila. I don't remember if I actually threw up but I do remember I couldn't look at tequila for quite a long time after that.

It was awesome nonetheless

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New-Sheepherder2239@reddit

I remember my first purchase but not sure if I drank that first or if my pal had already bought me one to celebrate.

I bought a six-pack and picked it up to walk out. I got yelled at because in our state, singles or packs with no outer packaging have to be in a bag.

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LeisurelyHyacinth246@reddit

I have no clue. I had so many illegal drinks that the first legal one didn’t stay in my memory.

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norskgenes@reddit

Exactly what I was thinking!

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Wino_Panda@reddit

Mad River Brewing ComoanyJamiaca Red Ale.

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Pielacine@reddit

I got to Mexico 2 months before my 21st birthday and was still there….

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FormNo9206284@reddit

Champagne on the beach at midnight in Miami Beach! 🏝️

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

no. here beer, wine and cider are legal from 16 yo, 18 for everything else (tho wine is sometimes 18 too)
i remember my first drink at 14, my first hangover at 15, but not my first 'legal' drink, sorry.

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handsomeape95@reddit

First drink on my 21st was an Alamaba Slammer. My friends did their best to get me to puke. Prior to my 21st I was unpukeable. The last thing they gave me was a shot of Sambuca. I punched the first one out of my friend's hand. They gave me another and I was calling Ralph collect the rest of the night.

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

I had a big 21st birthday party. 6 point beer from Texas (we still had 3.2 in Oklahoma) and champagne. Classy!

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ww_adh77@reddit

I do! It was a glass of cider in early January 1998--3 months before I turned 21. I was studying abroad, so suddenly "legal."

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Flaky-Debate-833@reddit

12:01am the day I turned 21. Shot of Wild Turkey with friends.

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quackman2025@reddit

I bought a pint of Southern Comfort and snuck it into the Oregon Ducks football game. 😁

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

I guess it was in OSUT at Ft Benning, GA. I was 17, but if you’re in, you can drink beer and wine underage.

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yearsofpractice@reddit

I do indeed - UK here, so was 18, precisely 32 years ago tomorrow. It was a pint of John Smith’s hand-pulled bitter at the Bay Horse in Hurworth near Darlington.

I’d obviously had drinks there before but the landlord never bothered checking ages out there in the sticks… but that was my first legal pint

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National-Net-6831@reddit

Yes drank a beer and fell asleep of exhaustion on my birthday. I had been drinking since age 11.

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curiousleen@reddit

First legal… YES! My friend blindfolded me and bought me a blowjob😆

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Puzzled-Bonus-3456@reddit

trick question. I was allowed drink at home all my life.

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ButterflyStock1791@reddit

My first legal drink (many decades ago) was a weird situation. When I was 19 I moved from a state where the legal age was 20 to a state where it had just changed from 18 to 21. HOWEVER anyone who was over 18 at the time of the change was grandfathered in. I got a strawberry daiquiri. Now that I think about it, what a nightmare that had to be for bartenders to keep straight.

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alibillensoep@reddit

I'm from Europe.

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eejm@reddit

My brother got married the day before my 21st birthday. I certainly drank at the reception. Maybe a drink or two was actually legal?

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-benyeahmin-@reddit

no – only my first illegal

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

It was at a cheesy mall place that was supposed to be like a British pub. They served alcoholic milkshakes and I had a couple of them with dinner. Pretty boring.

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Samhain-1843@reddit

No because by that time it wasn’t exciting anymore. Once I turned 21, I almost quit drinking entirely

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azrider@reddit

Yep. I had a Killian's Red at some place on the ASU campus that's now long gone.

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hippiestitcher@reddit

Yes, I was in college, and two friends took me out for dinner. I had two beers.

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Smart_Butterfly_7845@reddit

Shot of Patron, midnight leading into my birthday.

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ST0IC_@reddit

It's 40 oz bottle of budweiser.

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Robviously-duh@reddit

nope, not at all... it wasn't an earth shattering revelation.. had been drinking for a while by the time I turned 19.. that was the age back then.. it wasn't a big deal...

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allaboutaphie@reddit

Yes, I was 18 on an Army base so legal back then. Next 19 in Tx for almost 2 years tell they uped it to 21 a month tell I turned 21, so took a month off (well needed and appreciated). Different time back in the 80s.

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unclefes@reddit

So when I went to college in 1985, my roommate was a computer nerd when that sort of things was far less common. He had a burgeoning little side business making fake IDs for college students. By virtue of being his roommate, I was the test subject for quality control. Which meant I had (for the time) a very good fake ID.

I left college after a year (partied a lot, got booted out) but continued using that fake. I hung out a fair amount at a local near my house (did a shift or two there in the kitchen as a short order cook) and got to know the bartenders there pretty well. They stopped carding me after the first couple times I visited, but I was there 2-3 nights a week for a couple years. When I turned 21, that was my first stop of the evening, at which my pals absolutely ratted me out about the fake. The bartender got the manager, she demanded it, cut it half in front of me, then bought a round for all of us and her. Even nearly four years later, she said it was one of the best fakes she'd ever seen.

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Cool_Wealth969@reddit

I was 18 in Hawaii legally drinking that Long Island Iced tea!

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Katiecake80@reddit

Yes! Bugaboo Creek Moose Juice regular & frozen then a mudslide (all with an empty stomach) I proceeded to vomit in the ladies room and had to tell the really nice worried woman it was my 21st her response was “ok…. Have fun…” 🤣😂

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PepsiOfWrath@reddit

Yes, it was goldschlager and I puked everywhere

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CJK_Murph@reddit

Bartles and James! Those wine coolers were everything. I was 19, sophomore in college.

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Scooter_McGavin_9@reddit

Annoyingly had an econ test on my 21st birthday (which was the day after St Patrick's Day making things even more annoying; I turned 21 on the biggest partying day of the year and could not go out). I ended up buying Mad Dog 20/20 on my 21st because I liked the Teenage Fanclub song. I think that was the only time I actually bought Mad Dog 20/20.

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yarnhooksbooks@reddit

Shot of Apple Pucker at a bar I had already been drinking in for 2 years 😜

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Keefer1970@reddit

I went to the liquor store on my 21st b-day to buy my first legal six pack. I went up to the counter with my I.D. in my hand, ready to go ... and they didn't even ask me for it. I was actually kinda bummed, haha.

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disturbednadir@reddit

I was driving with my 2 best friends to New Orleans for the weekend. It turned midnight, and I was 21. We stopped at a convenience store in the middle of nowhere in Mississippi, and I ran in to get a beer, ready to whip out my ID with a resounding "HA!"

She didn't even card me.

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Obwyn@reddit

It was at a strip club my friends took me to on my birthday....and it probably was a long island iced tea. lol

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Vast_Breadfruit_162@reddit

Yep. I grew up near the Canadian border, so on my 19th birthday we crossed the bridge into canada and got smashed on Molson Golden and Canadian Club while playing blackjack at a "charity" casino.

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YourGuyK@reddit

It was a Sunday night. Had a couple Leinies Honeyweisses at a BW3. A buddy drove an hour and a half to come visit me at college for my birthday. It was nice and low key.

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gringoloco01@reddit

Wine coolers.

I was 13 with my cousins in Nebraska listening to John Mellencamp Centerfield playing on a boombox watching dirt bike races on the 4th of July.

We thought we were the koolest kids there lol.

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Knight_thrasher@reddit

Dad took me to the bar, had a few beers then he took me home. I went back and had more than I should’ve and ended up throwing up all over myself.

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docsiege@reddit

i went to one of those multiple clubs in one where you pay up front and can access like 4 different clubs connected by halls and tunnels. they were gay clubs and oh my god i could've died from all the free hurricanes i got. one at each club, then extras thrown in by other patrons. i felt like some kind of pageant winner.

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Rredhead926@reddit

Yes. It was at a fancy restaurant on my 21st birthday, and they didn't ask for ID. 😕

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Glass-Nectarine-3282@reddit

That's kind of funny because it makes me realize I turned 21 in the Army in Korea. So it was legal when I was got there at 20, and so the first legal drink was my first night there and I was blackout drunk on Soju rice wine with my new NCO supervisor sticking his finger down my throat to get me to puke it up yelling "give it up motherfucker," and then his wife gave me some hoodoo hangover cure and I woke up fine.

So that was my first "legal" drink.

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