Peter Dench: “drinkUK” examines the alcohol-fueled social lives of the British

When Peter Dench was 11, he tried his first beer. Both his parents worked at Devenish Brewery in Weymouth, a seaside town in Dorset, England. Once every couple of weeks, Dench’s father would receive a crate of bottled beer, and if Peter did his chores, there was a chance he would be given a bottle. Otherwise, he would get up in the morning before everyone else and finish off what the adults didn’t drink from the previous evening. It marked the beginning of his participation in the world of alcohol.