Ale Flip

Without question the Flip derives from what was known as an egg-flip which was a non-alcoholic beverage. Here is an early mention of the egg-flip: The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves - Page 94 by Tobias George Smollett in 1774 "Our new acquaintance asked us, if ever we had drank egg flip ?" The Flip itself appears as early as Blackwood's magazine: Volume 13 - Page 383 in 1823 Bentley's miscellany: Volume 1 - Page 355 by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith in 1837 "Ask for something warm, — some negus, Grog, or gruel, or egg-flip, Put in...

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