Possible Clues:

• Beer for the teetotaller in what sounds like his beer
• The little terror got half cut on beer
• Beer; resentful
• Tongue burning
• How the beer got its teeth into her, by the sound of it
• Very cold drink
• Like one who cannot let it go
• Sour - like some English beer?
• Beer for the teetotaller when he's in his coffin there
• Sharp-tasting