Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to drink beer or malt liquor after drinking wine.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. to drink ale immediately after drinking wine.

1738

Swift Polite Conversation 74: lord sm.: Tom Neverout, will you taste a Glass of the October? nev.: No, Faith, my Lord, I like your Wine; and I won’t put a Churl upon a Gentleman: your Honour’s Claret is good enough for me.