Begin the evening with tasting a selection of different beer styles.  Ideally, have enough juice (4-ounce) glasses (not plastic) for each person to have four samples at a time.   Introduce one beer at a time, explaining the characteristics of the beer style and a little bit about the particular beer you are serving.  One bottle is enough to serve four people (you are sampling only).  Have the participants compare the different beers they have already tried (hence the need to have several glasses available for each person).  Here's a couple of tasting menus we have used . . .

Each course of the dinner should be prepared with beer and served with a beer to complement each course (again, only a small taste is necessary unless you want your guests falling asleep in their dessert!).  Some of our dinners have included a Potato Ale Soup, Spinach Salad with Amber Dressing, Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat Sorbet, Portered Pork Tenderloin, Decadent Chocolate Stout Cake, and a Chocolate Beer Mousse with Raspberry Sauce.  Beer is a great seasoning for food - use it liberally.