Experiences with alcohol consumption are part of the lived experience of adolescents and are thus interwoven with various themes of the transition to adulthood. These experiences become relevant within peer and family relationships, shaping collective affiliations, socio-spatial integration, and diverse youth cultural practices and rituals. This biographical longitudinal study offers insights into this complex interplay and reconstructs alcohol consumption as an element of youth cultural transition. Based on biographical narratives of adolescents with alcohol consumption experience, these experiences, demands, and forms of expression are traced over a period of six years. New product