My brother-in-law brought me back this new beer from Beijing, China, it's a dark beer (most Chinese beers are pale lagers, though there is the odd dark beer - Tsingtao makes one). I wonder if it was created for the last Olympics, held in 2008 in Beijing. Anyway, it was fairly good, though a little sweet.
The blog that I got this off, called this cake The Dark Lady, and I believe it originally came from a Nigella Lawson recipe for Guinness cake. Either way, it turned out quite fantastic, dark and moist and delicious, definitely a cake I will make again. My brother-in-law had one negative comment, in that it needed more beer. But, he's not one for sweets or cake or chocolate, really, beer is his thing, I imagine he would have liked drinking the Guinness I made it with, rather than eating it in a cake.
