Possible Clues:

• Depressed and, swallowing hard stuff, expired
• Passed over hard liquor when depressed
• Downcast, departed drinking brandy, perhaps
• Conked out clutching bottle? That’s sad
• Local knocked for six by single Schnapps in Germany at the start of dinner
• Stopped swallowing whisky, perhaps dejected
• Cast down after exorcist's visit?
• Passed away consuming liquor when low
• Dejected, discouraged
• Having passed over, the ghost came through unhappy