diff --git a/container/brew.repo b/container/brew.repo
index 551fdc0..273efcc 100644
--- a/container/brew.repo
+++ b/container/brew.repo
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 [brew]
 name=brew
-baseurl=http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/brewroot/repos/brew-rhel-8/4285303/x86_64
+# This is the repository corresponding to the "brew-rhel-8-stage" tag, which contains
+# the release engineering builds for the brew staging deployment. The 'latest' link
+# is used instead of the repo id, because repos get re-created on demand.
+# Based on information by Tomas Kopecek (thanks!)
+baseurl=http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/brewroot/repos/brew-rhel-8-stage/latest/x86_64/
 enabled=1
 gpgcheck=0
 metadata_expire=60