Brew News

Brew Blogs picks of stories from the beer business and beyond.Diageo will build a new Guinness brewery outside Dublin even as it keeps open the famed St. Jamess Gate brewery in the heart of the city. It will close breweries in Dundalk and Kilkenny. Reuters.For the fifth straight day, oil prices have hit a new peak. This time: $126 a barrel. CNBC.Bud Barley Wine? An Atlanta Journal and Constitution story about A-Bs Cartersvilla, Ga., brewery describes a special sampling of some new experimental beers from the pilot brewery. Among them, a tasty Irish Red ale, a solid American brown ale and, most astonishingly, a hoppy, high-gravity barley wine-style ale. Breweries experiment with styles all the time, many of which never come to market. So no telling whether any of these will someday hit store shelves.