Possible Fridge Brilliance— Early in the movie, Clay is offered a drink, which he politely declines. In actual beehives, if a bee returns to the hive with even a drop of alcohol on it, its compatriots will rend it limb from limb and expel it from the hive, because alcohol is pure poison to them. Clay may be abstaining so that the bees he keeps will not smell alcohol on him and become aggressive.
Possible Fridge Brilliance— Early in the movie, Clay is offered a drink, which he politely declines. In actual beehives, if a bee returns to the hive with even a drop of alcohol on it, its compatriots will rend it limb from limb and expel it from the hive, because alcohol is pure poison to them. Clay may be abstaining so that the bees he keeps will not smell alcohol on him and become aggressive.