Dennis Newman, Author at CraftBeer.com

Dennis Newman

Dennis Newman is a freelance writer in Tucson, Arizona, who's written extensively about craft beer, farming and conservation. His craft beer experience includes Rogue Ales and Spirits of Oregon where he produced the quarterly Rogue Farms Crop Report. He and his wife love living in the Sonoran desert where they can look out ever day at the mountains and are regularly visited by coyotes, bobcats, deer and quail.

Craft Beer Muses

The Precarious Future of Wild Hops of the American West

By: Dennis Newman | July 30, 2018

The mountains of southern Arizona and New Mexico are home to wild hops of the American West. You'll likely never see one unless you know where to look, and those who do know say time may be running out.

Kim Schonek of the Nature Conservancy along the banks of Arizona's Verde River. (Dennis Newman)

Craft Beer Muses

Can Craft Brewers Save Arizona’s Verde River?

By: Dennis Newman | April 19, 2018

Arizona's Verde River is a valuable natural resource, but it's in trouble. But a new effort from the Nature Conservancy, Arizona craft brewers and local farmers could be the answer to the river's survival.