Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a type of ale.

1699		Bentley Phal. Pref. 33: He is better skill’d in the Catalogues of Ales, his Humty Dumty, Hugmatee, Three-Threads, and the rest of that glorious List, than in the Catalogues of MSS.
a.1704		T. Brown in Works (1760) IV. 218: No hugmatee nor flip my grief can smother.
1904		Belfast News-Letter 15 June 6: Some old names for [...] beer are curious [...] ‘hugmatee,’ ‘knock down’.
1940		Chelmsford Chron. 26 Jan. 5/4: Old English drinks [...] Humpty-Dumpty, Hugmatee [...] Knock-Me-Down.