Drunk sat and drank lots of beer (8)
I believe the answer is:
tankards
'lots of beer' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'drunk sat and drank' is the wordplay.
'drunk' is an anagram indicator.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'sat' after 'drank' is 'dranksat'.
'dranksat' anagrammed gives 'TANKARDS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tankards that I've seen before include "One-handled beer mugs" , "Large one-handled drinking vessels" , "Large beer mugs" , "Large one-handled drinking mugs" .)