Sweet brewed ale spilt (8)
I believe the answer is:
pastille
'sweet' is the definition.
(pastille is a kind of sweet)
'brewed ale spilt' is the wordplay.
'brewed' indicates an anagram.
'ale'+'spilt'='alespilt'
'alespilt' with letters rearranged gives 'PASTILLE'.
(Other definitions for pastille that I've seen before include "Small sweet/lozenge" , "Lozenge, to soothe the throat perhaps" , "Cough lozenge" , "Lozenge, small sweet for sucking" , "tablet" .)