Wait, they don't want to see my ID in Germany? Cheers!

What’s the legal drinking age where you live? 🍺👀 #berlin #cultureshock #germany #livingabroad #lifeingermany #shorts
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[Some_stray_moss]

I mean technically you are allowed to drink beer and wine as early as 14, if you are accompanied by / have permission from your parents or legal guardian

[affalada]

Speaking french to a German real smooth

[guywhocomments]

I have been asked for ID in Germany...to play pool. I was 16, and the beer was no problem, but you had to be 18 to play pool.

[philyip]

When I was growing up in Hong Kong, I would go to the store to buy beer for my dad when I was 9 in 1959.

[soulmare]

That is the most headless beer I've ever seen in a skit about Germany and beer.

[azbeaux]

I bought a bottle of Tequila from Amazon recently. The delivery driver insisted on seeing my ID. I’m 71

[rowdywizard]

In japan at the convenience stores they just have you press a yes or no button to say if you were 20 or not. That's it. Also the lobbys of the hotels had alcoholic vending machines with no ID system.

Other countries are more trusting of their citizens 😅

[anavan]

She changed from American to French tourist in Germany

[glennj.r.]

Honesty, chivalry and sincerity have become increasingly rare qualities to find these days.

[Surfcityham]

My boys were 15 and 18 when I bought them a beer (0.5 liter) at the Hofbrau house in Munich. They were over 6 feet tall; now they are 6'4 and 6'5.

[martin]

German here: Yes, we start drinking heavily around 13. At 16 it's already normal to have a beer.

[jjhonka]

In Finland, cashiers will ask your ID, if you buy non-alcoholic beer (0, 5% vol) and look like under 30 year old. Legally you have to be over 18 to buy products that have over 1, 2% alcohol.

Once a cashier wouldn't sell me and my spouse two 0, 5% non-alcoholic beers because my spouse had left her ID at home. I still had my ID. We are both over 30.

[JDtheComposer]

Unrealistic, no German would serve beer without foam.

[ThomasKO]

@DW ich bin wahrlich überrascht, wie gut eure Shorts sind. Amüsieren mich jedes Mal!

[terrygernstl]

I spent the summer in Bavaria with my grangparents, i could go to one of the taverns and get a liter of beer, 1 mark. Ther was a cigarette machine outside mounted to the wall, 2 marks. Best summer ever!! Iwas 11 years old, in 1974, Germany won the world cup that summer

[avadacannon]

In italy your grandparents start training you with a wine glass every sunday since you're 10 or younger!! 🇮🇹

[eledomingu]

I remember foreign students in my engineering class and someone asked what was difficult adjusting to the US and a German student said he wasn't familiar with the drinking age and how he couldn't get a pint as usual.

[janesays]

Hi, I’m a bartender in the US. We literally have to card because of some legal cases that set a precedent for doing so. Not only that, we’re legally responsible for any accidents or health issues that arise from over serving a patron. I’d be so nervous to serve literal teens, but with relaxed laws, a much earlier drinking age, and a different culture, it sounds like a much better situation!

[John_Smith]

First time I went to Germany, I walked out of the plane to be greeted by a wine vending machine 💀

[bagwill]

as a german who doesnt live there i can confirm i have 5-6 yrs left and i will beg my parents for us to travel there for my bday