Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tipper n.2

[proper name of the brewer Thomas Tipper (d. 1785). It was brewed from notably brackish water from one specific well.]

a beer brewed in Newhaven, Sussex, with a nationwide reputation.

[UK]Sussex Advertiser (Newhaven) 17 Feb. 3/4: The Queen’s brewer gave several buckets of good old tipper beer to any person who chose to drink the Queen’s health.
[UK]Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1995) 320: Requiring... a pint of the celebrated staggering ale, or Real Old Brighton tipper, at supper.
M. Lower Patronymica Britannica 348: The peculiar, but excellent, ale called tipper [...] The peculiarity of [tipper] arises from its being brewed from brackish water, which is obtainable from one well only; and all attempts to imitate the flavour have hitherto failed .
[UK]N. Devon Jrnl 13 Oct. 7/4: In Newhaven Churchyard, Sussex [...] inscibed on the tombstone of the original inventor of the ‘Tipper Beer’ [...] ‘To the memory of Thomas Tipper [...] The best old Stingo he both brewed and sold’.