Possible Clues:

• Bird without new drink
• Sour kind of English ale?
• English ale, sounds sour
• Sour taste or resentful
• Beer for the sound of beer with the teetotaller in it
• Resentful, being piercingly cold
• Like dark chocolate, maybe
• Acrimonious; beer
• Beer sounds like beer around the one that won't have beer
• Not so sweet for a teetotaller to be in there over his coffin with such a drink