In Germany it is 16 for beer or wine and 18 for the hard stuff. However, you are usually not carded when buying beer in a pub anyway. You can buy beer with your parents present at 14.
Austria, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Portugal, Luxembourg and Italy all have 16 for the drinking age, at lest for beer. In Poland you have to be 18 to buy alcohol but no age to drink it.
Malta has 17 and most of the rest are 18.
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