When did you first drink alcohol?

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I think I was around 9/10 when I tried beer , hated it.

I've been told I loved my dummy dipped in lager as a toddler

a glass of champagne for the millennium, so i was 9. then started drinking most weekends from 14. and now i drink probably once or twice a year. spending my early teen years necking cheap cider in a park put me off alcohol for life!

I had sips of wine and beer as a little child quite often, but first had a full glass of cider at 12, felt horrible and was convinced I was going to die. It was a long while before I had cider again.

Does rum butter count? Had that on bread at my grandmas when tiny. She had a lot of grandkids I think it quietened us down... otherwise probably 14 or so for small shandy

8 or 9. Sherry or Stone’s Ginger Wine that my parents bought at Christmas. I remember wanting a pee straightaway!

Probably younger than I should have been. Possibly 4/5, my grandpa would give me sips of his home-brew.

I also remember having a shandy at Christmas/new years from a very young age too.

As an adult, I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with alcohol and have been largely booze-free for 6 years.

13, in a pub with older friends. I remember my cousins were allowed sips at family parties before that but I wasn't because my parents didn't like the idea.

15, out with friends.

My parents don't drink so it was never at home.

My grandad gave us the froth from his pint of bitter from being a few months old.
Snowball at Christmas at about 6 and champagne when I was flower girl aged 8.

About 12 or 13 my aunt would give me blue wkd type drinks. Vodka at 14. I dont drink now probably put me off

I had my 16th bday in a night club in town and got given a free bottle of bubbly as I had an 18 badge on 😂

Bad thing was I'd been going there for ages before that

I can’t remember exactly. I definitely had sips of my dad’s beer or my mum’s wine as a child and immediately hated both. Started drinking properly (well sugary/sweet alcopop type drinks) when I was about 15-16 and went to parties with friends.

My parents were relaxed about alcohol, I can’t remember exact age, and I think it has given me a pretty healthy relationship with it. I’m trying to do the same for my kids so my 6 year old has the odd sip of beer and just tried his first champagne on holiday - he and his friend got a thumb each in a proper glass

4ish? My family is Italian background so I was brought up on wine and water with dinner from a very young age. As I got older the amount of wine increased and the water reduced. Drinking shandies from about 9/10.

Well mine is embarrassing... I am 36 and never drank alcohol! Eck!

I was raised in a strict religion/cult which alcohol was forbidden. I left the religion/cult several years ago and I have taken a couple of sips of things but I don't like the taste and I really don't like the idea of being drunk. I go out "drinking" with friends fairly often (pre COVID) but I just drink non alcoholic drinks. Like I say, I have taken sips and I did force myself to drink wine once but one month full and I threw it up.

I'm so not used to it and really don't feel like investing in the time to get used to it as I feel I don't need it. If that makes sense at all.

I have always been ambivalent about alcohol, as my uncle gave me far too many martinis when i was about 12 at a family party & I was so sick, it was vile. My parents were not regular drinkers-my dad, who left when i was 4, was an alcoholic & viiolent with it, so I guess that coloured us subsequently. Oh, Babycham at grandparents anniversary comes to mind -about 9? And sneaking a mouthful of whisky from stepdads drinks cabinet. About 13. Yeuch. Its just not my poison!

My dad bought me Asti Spumante for my 13th birthday but I think I'd had Dubonnet and lemonade at a party earlier than that. Yuk!

When I was 5, maybe 4. I remember it wa Christmas and my dad was drinking a glass of whiskey, I asked if I could have a taste and he let me dip my finger in the glass. Can’t drink whiskey to this day.

Really young. Under 5? Used to be given watered down wine with dinner.

7/8 wine at Sunday dinner, I guess my parents thought it would stop me goin crazy on it when I was older, however it didn’t! Dh never had any until about 16/17 and also went overboard when late teens/twenties so neither approach worked for us.
I wouldn’t dream of giving my 8 year old alcohol! However my mums puddings are known for being very alcoholic on special occasion and all the grandkids gave been allowed those from toddlers so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was 13. Wanted to try vodka, had no idea how much people usually drank (my parents didn’t really) so downed half a bottle. Oops. Passed out, threw up but thankfully recovered pretty quickly.

I was 23! I had a quantro, lemonade and lime (blue moon) at a friends party.

About 9 am. I like to be good and leathered for Homes Under the Hammer.

Toddler.