Flip Family
Hot or warm mixed drinks built through repeated pouring and frothing, often combining malt liquor, spirit, eggs, sugar, and spice into a smooth restorative serve.
Origin
Thomas treats flips as an older established class distinguished by texture and repeated pouring rather than by a single fixed ingredient bill.
template
- Rum Flip
Rum Flip is the clearest base formulation in the Thomas flip sequence.
variant
- Ale Flip
Ale-only branch of the flip family.
- Brandy Flip
Compact single-glass brandy branch of the flip family.
- Egg Flip (Another Method)
Spirit-heavy egg flip branch approaching later nog logic.
- Gin Flip
A genever branch of Boothby's whole-egg flip template.
- Rum Flip (Another Method)
Egg-enriched and more elaborate rum flip method.
- Sherry Flip
A sherry branch of Boothby's whole-egg flip template.
- Whiskey Flip
A whiskey branch of Boothby's whole-egg flip template.
descendant
- Baltimore Egg-nogg
Rich fortified-wine-and-rum nogg branch.
- Boston Egg-Nogg
Balanced tri-spirit Boston nogg branch.
- Chocolate Cocktail
Egg-and-liqueur descendant hidden under cocktail nomenclature.
- Cider Egg-Nogg
Cider-based nogg branch.
- Claret Flip
Late chilled claret branch of the flip line.
- Coffee Cocktail
Named after-dinner egg-and-Port branch adjacent to fortified-wine flips.
- Duplex Flip
Dual-fortified-wine flip with Benedictine. A shared service variant.
- Egg Nogg
Commercial bar-service egg nogg branch.
- Egg-Nogg Frappe
Frozen egg-and-spirit festive branch.
- Glasgow Flip
Ginger-ale flip/cooler hybrid branch.
- Golden Flip
Liqueur-led after-dinner flip branch.
- Hot English Ale Flip
Late hot ale-only branch of the English flip line.
- Hot English Rum Flip
Late hot ale-and-rum branch preserving the older English flip tradition.
- Imperial Egg Nogg
A festive egg-nogg branch with milk finish.
- Jamaica Rum Flip
Jamaica-rum flip branch.
- La Fayette Flip
Curacao-whiskey flip. A brighter variant of the whiskey flip.
- Plain Egg-Nogg
Central plain nogg branch.
- Port Wine Flip
Fortified-wine branch of the late flip family.
- Sherry and Egg
Plain fortified-wine and egg branch.
- Sherry Egg-Nogg
Sherry-led nogg branch.
- Sherry Filler
A compact sherry-and-egg flip branch.
- Sherry Wine Flip
Sherry branch of the fortified-wine flip line.
- Tom and Jerry
Cold batter drink branch.
- Yankee Flip
Apple-brandy flip branch.
branch
- Egg Flip
Egg-forward branch of the flip family.
Modern descendants
- Eggnog
- hot flips
- custardy winter serves