Possible Clues:

• A sour English beer?
• Sour tasting
• Resentful or angry through disappointment
• The beer that has the teetotaller in his coffin on there
• Sour British beer?
• Arctic seabird off north
• Resentful and cynical
• Tart or resentful
• Even a teetotaller in his coffin might be on the beer like this, by the sound of it
• A drink for a teetotaller for when he's in there in his coffin