Possible Clues:

• Liquor drink for kids
• Soft drink with spirits
• Smooth out
• Drink made from cola nuts by old man
• One with Elsie, say, has repeated work on drink
• It tastes like a soft drink, but isn't!
• Soft drink containing spirits
• A policeman entering dock finds intoxicating drink
• Lawman tucks into a chop and a drink
• After heaving coal the old man needs something stronger