How flammable is beer?

Question

I do not drink beer or go to bars. In a movie a woman sips some beer and lights a match. Then she spits the beer into guy's face and it acts like a flame thrower. Does it really work that way? I have already taken sprays, like bug spray, and lit it on fire and the spray can becomes a flame thrower.

Answer 1

it's not flammable at all. Maybe if you drop a shot or 2 of bacardi 151 in it. Then yeah it will flame up. There is actually a drink made with beer and 151.

Answer 2

Beer will extinguish a flame.

Answer 3

Beer is not flammable. It has too high of a water content.

Only liquor that is flammable is Bacardi 151 or something with just as high of a proof.

Answer 4

Any liquor over 80 proof (40% alcohol) will catch fire very easily.  Beer will not due to it's relatively low alcohol percentage, especially not in the way demonstrated on film.  However, anything with alcohol should be considered flammable in the right situation.  If you were to heat beer in a closed environmen (like a bottle) to about 190 degreed F, the alcohol will turn to gas in the empty space.  This space is then highly flammable.  Rare, but it has happened.

Answer 5

I think your the key phrase in your post is "in a movie…" :-)

Should be easy to test by yourself any way.

Answer 6

no, but 151 and everclear (moonshine) will!!!

Answer 7

The percentage of alcohol in beers are very low and it's not flammable. The one's you see in movies are just a conception that liquors produce such effect because it has alcohol. But on intoxicating drinks like vodka, the alcohol content is above the allowable level that it's almost pure alcohol.  This is why when a whole bottle had already been consumed and when you try dropping a lighted match inside is burns and you can see the flame consume the effect of the remaining alcohol gas inside.