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Pizza Crust with Beer
if you don't have time or yeast for a regular rising crust

2 cups unbleached flour (plus more for dusting)
1 cup white flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 oz. (one bottle or can) beer
(optional: 1 tsp garlic powder or Italian seasonings)
olive oil

1. Preheat oven to 450degrees.
2. Combine the dry ingredients together, then slowly add in the beer. The dough will be sticky.
3. Generously flour your work area and dump the dough onto the flour. Toss is around to coat, and knead two or three times to make pliable. Form into a ball (or two, if you want thinner crusts)
4. Prepare pizza pan with olive oil, then roll out into a circle with a rolling pin
5. Brush crust lightly with olive oil, then cover with sauce, toppings, and cheese and bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Guinness Brownies
Paige and I had heard that they existed; they're legendary for a reason

4 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
8 ounces bittersweet/semisweet chocolate, chopped
4 ounces white chocolate, chopped
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/4 cups (one 12 oz. bottle) Guinness stout
Confectioners' sugar for dusting

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Butter an 9-inch-square pan.
2. In an electric mixer, combine the eggs and sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
3. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the bittersweet chocolate, white chocolate and butter, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and beat into the egg mixture.
4. Sift the flour and cocoa together and beat into the chocolate mixture. Whisk in the Guinness.
5. Pour into the pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out almost clean. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
6. To serve, dust the cake with confectioners' sugar and cut into squares.

(Then go running the next day to work it all off)

Here's a really quick and easy one:

12 oz. regular beer
1/4 cup (more or less) sugar
3 or 3+1/2 cups self-rising flour

Preheat oven to 350. Mix ingredients (the proportions are not an exact science -- experiment with that and with adding things like herbs or bits of shredded cheese) well with a fork (it's ok if the batter has small lumps). Spread batter evenly in a 9-inch greased bread pan. Bake for an hour or so.

Yummy beer bread!