Possible Clues:

• Buccaneer's beverage
• Liquor — almost overindulge when upset
• Hot rum drink for pirates
• Sailors’ spirits
• Subject of rationing in the old English navy
• Pirate's booze
• Rum-and-water quaff
• Pint for a pirate
• Reflection of petrifying monster would show no such spirit
• Diluted rum formerly rationed to sailors