Many beer and food pairing dinners will add a beer to the ingredient mix. And while that is novel in its own way, the new concept under the name Brewed Food is “going beyond using finished beers to utilizing yeasts for fermentation, wort, spent grain, hops, etc..”
And if that intrigues you then you may want to keep your eyes peeled for when Chef and Certified Cicerone Jensen Cummings brings his Brewed Food tour to Los Angeles and San Diego in May. At each stop of the tour “local chefs and brewers host an interactive workshop of beer yeast fermented foods and other brewing ingredient foods paired with beers.”
Basically, this approach turns the brewhouse into a pantry of sorts to inspire dishes to pair with beers. Considering that Chef Jensen was the National Hop Chef Champion of 2014 (which I did not even know existed) leads me to think that this might be more than beer dinner business as usual and might rejuvenate the craft beer dinner event in general.