In the original script for 1985’s “Back To The Future”, the time machine is powered by Coca-Cola; the stated logic being, since nobody knows the ingredients, it's essentially a scientific x-factor.
When Doc shows up at the end, he powers the DeLorean's Mr. Fusion with a bunch of trash he finds rummaging in the McFly trash can, including a partially-full can of beer, which he pours into Mr. Fusion then drops the can in as well.
Classic TV Show MacGyver has a ton of beverage related moments. In "The Heist", Mac uses crystal wine glasses filled with different levels of wine to recreate musical tones to open the vault. In "The Prodigal", he mixes soda and popping candy with dry ice to simulate fire smoke through air vents. In "Countdown", he injects a mixture of low fat milk and oven cleaner via a pastry tube to neutralize an acid mixture inside the bomb. In "Slow Death", he sprays carbonated water into a bowl of salt, causing it to splash into bad guys' eyes. In "For Love or Money", he makes fake bloodstains from red wine and ketchup. In "The Odd Triple", he uses wine to help him wriggle out of ropes. In "The Endangered", he asks some people at a bar for matches in order to light some rum to create a fireball to create a diversion. But he can't find any matches and is nearly shot. In "Gold Rush", he uses high proof vodka as the fuel in a in a fire bomb to blow away some the snow surrounding the pane they are buried in. In "Serenity", he tosses whisky and a cigar butt down Wilt's pants as a distraction. In "Rush to Judgement", makes a soft drink dispenser spit out cans for distraction. In "MacGyver's Women", he pours alcohol on pine nuts in a stove, which mimics gunshots. In "Gunz 'n' Boyz", he uses whisky-soaked kindling in a wastebasket to light a fire.
Played for Drama in Night Watch Discworld, when a character realizes why a Torture Technician would use bottles of ginger beer.note (It's not described in the book, but Terry Pratchett later clarified that it involves giving the bottle a hard shake to squirt the carbonated, very spicy drink up the victim's nose.)