[LarryW]

You can use O'Douls beer and it'll work fine. What you're looking for is the yeast. Not sure how it'd work with a Guinness. This is easy enough for a dumb sailor to do without screwing it up.

Ingredients:
3 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 (12 ounce) can beer
1/2 cup melted butter (1/4 cup will do just fine)
¼ cup chopped walnuts/pecans
½ cup blueberries

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Fold the stuff together until it's all blended good, and pour into a greased loaf pan.
Pour melted butter over the top
Bake 1 hour until a knife inserted comes out clean, remove from pan and cool for at least 15 minutes.

You can also add raspberries along with the blueberries for a nice patriotic thing. Kind of neat. Make sure the baking powder is fairly new. Old ingredients will be a let down every time. Sift the flour.

Enjoy!