Reply To: Last orders for the pint?

[Drone]

I’m fairly sure some mainland European countries allow purchase of beer and wine at 16

See the section on Europe here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

I wasn’t aware that European countries have in general been raising the minimum age in recent years.

21 in the USA, blimey. Trump’s a teetotaler…nuff said