Bit of a lump, very soft, in water (5,5)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

The prominent appearance of the larynx, usually more visible in males, the origin myth being that Eve’s proffered apple stuck in Adams throat. It’s PP for very soft in ADAM’S ALE, another culling from Genesis suggesting that for Adam, being (before the apple) innocent, water was a sufficient man’s drink, and therefor good Christians should also eschew anything stronger. I’m inclined to get Real.