First pint and where...

[DJack]

I honestly don't remember :shock:

I suspect it was in a animal park down west wales (Manor Park??), on a Sunday in the on site bar. My uncles bought the beers. Aged 15/16.

 

[Neath_Jack]

First alcohol would have been cans of Tenants Super around the lanes of Briton Ferry aged about 15. First pint, would have been a pint of half and half (god knows what that would have been, but i just remember that my old man used to drink it) at the Ferry rugby club, again aged 15. First local was the Ship Tavern from 16 years old.

 

[J_B]

The Old Arcade in Cardiff before a rugby international. A pint of Brains daaaaark. Aged 16 in an extremely crowded pub, I would never have got served so quietly stayed in a corner while it was bought for me.

 

[Muteswan]

Probably the Raven or the Eagle. They served anyone in either of them, even wearing Penlan school tie.
This was about 53 years ago when I was 15ish.
The first place where I was a “regular “ was the Cross Keys. Worthy Dark, 1s 11d a pint. That’s under 10 p for you youngsters.

 

[Pegojack]

:lol: I remember doing a tour of some of the old pubs of Aberavon mentioned earlier in this thread to celebrate the end of my O level exams in 1971. Bitter was 5p per half pint; we were on halves because it was a long crawl.
Not my first ale though, I was a veteran of several holidays away with the mates by then, where underage drinking was 'de riguer'. I can remember drinking in pubs in Tenby, a row of us sitting against the wall with newspapers which were all raised in unison to hide behind whenever someone entered the bar. Got sick as a dog on Worthington 'E' at one Saundersfoot caravan site dance and couldn't look at it for years after without heaving.

 

[Ebo]

Aberaman rugby club at 15. Probably was a pint of SBB.

 

[Squarebear]

It was in 1979 at my sister's 18th birthday bash at The Westgate Hotel in Newport. I was fifteen.

Carlsberg costing 50p, which the mate who bought it told me was extortionate. My mother had drilled into me the dangers of leaving my drink unattended as someone would slip me a Mickey Finn, so in actual fact I got scared and never finished it.

 

[CygnusX1]

Probably The Duke of Wellington in Neath when I was 16 after getting O level results
(First legal pint in the cross keys, also in Neath)

 

[Niigata Jack]

Probably the Commercial or Plough on llangyfelach rd, in around 1976ish I was 15 and it was probably Albright or Welsh Bitter might even have been Maggie Dicks, but Maggie wouldn't serve me as she knew the family and knew I was under age, :lol:
I remember I used to have 4 pints and a bag of chips in the Friar Tuck all for just around a quid.

 

[Darran]

Probably the Commercial or Plough on llangyfelach rd, in around 1966ish I was 5 and it was probably Albright or Welsh Bitter might even have been Maggie Dicks, but Maggie wouldn't serve me as she knew the family and knew I was under age, :lol:
I remember I used to have 4 pints and a bag of chips in the Friar Tuck all for just around a quid.

Sorted it for you.

 

[Best_loser]

King Arthur 15

 

[BrynCartwright]

Glamorgan Arms, Pontlliw (now Rasoi), Xmas Eve 1985, aged nearly 16. Big disco, loads of girls, Speccy Spectrum geek not unlike a blonde McLovin. No idea with the ladies. Got pissed.

Worked up there in Uni holidays later. Served Fosters to Colin Jones and fornicated on the swings with female colleagues.

 

[DJack]

Glamorgan Arms, Pontlliw (now Rasoi), Xmas Eve 1985, aged nearly 16. Big disco, loads of girls, Speccy Spectrum geek not unlike a blonde McLovin. No idea with the ladies. Got pissed.

Worked up there in Uni holidays later. Served Fosters to Colin Jones and fornicated on the swings with female colleagues.

I expected you to say drinkies at the Ponderosa... :lol:

 

[dickythorpe]

I don't remember first pint from a glass in a pub but first booze socially was when I was 10 and had a can of Kestrel at a cousin's engagement party.
I thought it was very nice indeed
Cans of Allbright from then on from a local Spar.
Tanners Arms in Carmarthen was owned by a mate's parents and they were by the book insisting we never drank booze until we were 16, I assume it was there or the Athletic Rugby club where I drank from a pint glass first as a "man".