Your First, Last and Best Beer

[summerisle]

First : a spotty 15 year old nervously walks into a bar and squeakily asks for a snakebite, once drunk, never ordered again.

Last : Theakston's Old Peculiar
*awaits visit to the toilet

Best : Old Hooky Mild, from their tap house in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The abv is low, but the taste is magnificent. Unfortunately, in bottles, a pale imitation.

 

[Nymzee]

First: some stolen stubby when I was like 12/13 from a family garden party.
Last: some overpriced blone ale after a hike, can't think which, but the choice was small and it was crap.
Best: definitely a cold glass of La Chouffe in Bruges

 

[Eggs]

…..early drink as a schoolboy was Newcastle Brown, in the Clock on London Rd before going to Flintlocks Club. Bottles were huge and it didn’t take many.

Fortunately when I started playing open-age footy the old fellas who ran and watched the teams I played for warned me off lager, told me to stick with ‘dark ale’. I’d have a bottle of Manns brown with half bitter or mild, then moved onto ‘Fifty’ (half mild/half draught Guiness) but have drunk Guinness for most of my life.

I couldn’t drink a pint of lager if it was offered free all night, dreadful stuff.

 

[ste d' indica]

*begins deep contemplation

 

[datblygu]

First, a pint of lager at the local when I was 14 or so. Last, a pint of lager at the local. Best, a bottle of Westvleteren (Belgian beer) from a batch my brother bought after my mother died.

 

[COYBL25]

First Pint - Double Diamond ( it doesn’t get much worse )

Last pint - Timmy Taylor’s Best.

Best - too many, but the ones I’d always choose in the UK :

Old Man Ale - Coniston.
Loweswater Gold - Cumbrian Ales.
Swan Blonde - Bowness.
Old Peculiar - got to be oak cask.

 

[Ducans elbow]

Metal box sports and social club in Speke, brown and bitter, then when it was as all the rage a pint of golden

Half larger half bitter,

 

[coollino]

First: some house party when I was 14

Last: keg Jaipur

Best: when we walking for hours in Lisbon to find the first bar that served craft beer, about 15 years ago, they were shut and the guy saw us outside and then invited us it, and we have seen him every year since

 

[Kurt.]

First was probably a can of Scandia Green or something

Last was a can of 1664 or whatever it’s called now on Saturday night

Best ever … weirdly for me, as I drink lager, but it was a pint of Sommersby cider on a hot sunny day at Conway football ground, I’d never had it on tap before, only out of a can.

 

[heatmeiser]

First was probably a can of Skol unfortunately. First pint was Guinness when I was 15. Had 3 or 4 and was chucking up all night. Great days!

Last was Efes. Nothing wrong with that when it's 40°

Best was from a place in Todmorden called the Bare Arts. Guy brewed it all himself. Triple dropped and it was the best stuff I've ever tasted by an absolute mile

 

[klingklang]

First - Brown mixed in King Edward in town at 15.
Last - Something in a Galway bar after the races !
Best - Peroni

 

[tsubaki]

First - a pint of (original) Wrexham Lager when I was about 15
Last - a bottle of Corona on a Friday night in April 2021 (I had an attack of kidney stones later that night, beer was found to be a likely suspect and I've not had another one since)
Best - probably one of many on cup final day 1995

 

[Blue 1]

First : a spotty 15 year old nervously walks into a bar and squeakily asks for a snakebite, once drunk, never ordered again.

Last : Theakston's Old Peculiar
*awaits visit to the toilet

Best : Old Hooky Mild, from their tap house in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The abv is low, but the taste is magnificent. Unfortunately, in bottles, a pale imitation.

Old Hooky is cracking beer. My dad used to get a barrel in for the Xmas period.

I can't remember my first beer, I was allowed it as a kid occasionally.

My last beer was some 8% IPA called Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man that I had yesterday evening while watching some of SummerSlam.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

First: I think a Leinenkugel shandy I nicked out of the fridge well before legal age.

Best: I don’t drink beer much. I’m more of a cocktail and liquor drinker. I really go for beers that taste like anything except beer. The best of the best was a limited time Oatmeal Creme Pie stout I had at a local brewery while I was visiting my family in Florida one Christmas. (Oatmeal Creme Pies are an American snack cake.) Fresh off the tap and you could taste the oatmeal and molasses and vanilla perfectly. I should have bought the lot and figured out how to get it across state lines.

Last: I think it was a Stella Artois but it’s been a little while

 

[PhilM]

First: My first pint was a pint of mild my dad bought me when I was about 14 in my grandparent's pub.

Before that, my first actual beer was some cheap French lager with friends when I was about 12, which we had 'acquired' from my mate's house.

Last: Estrella Damm Lemon, which I had today. Lager isn't my go-to choice, but this is a brilliant, refreshing drink when it's warm and having food.

Best: An odd one perhaps with all the different beers I've tasted, but I had a pint of Tetley's Cask in the Rose around 2003, which was sublime!

Salopian Shropshire Gold is probably my favourite beer to have if I see it.