DUBLIN -- This is how bad Ireland's economic crisis has gotten: Guinness is having second thoughts about putting a new brewery here.

In better times, a taste for the premium-priced malty stout was an emblem of newfound prosperity for emerging countries around the globe. Such was the demand that in May, Diageo PLC, Guinness's parent, said it would spend nearly $1 billion to build a "superbrewery" in a Dublin suburb.

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