Yesterday theTimes’City Room blog reportedthat Brooklyn Brewery was rumored to be negotiating to open a beer hall in Phony Island — which is what we’re calling it from now on, thank you very much. ThePostalsowrote todaythat “sources said” Brooklyn Brewery was the favorite to operate a beer garden. But don’t boycott the brewery just yet: An operations employee there, Brian Dochney, tells us (and we believe him) that it’s absolutely not true, and indeed all mention of Brooklyn Brewery has mysteriously disappeared (without a correction) from the City Room post. “The article was supposed to readaBrooklyn brewery, nottheBrooklyn Brewery,” he says.
“我们没有参与,没有计划a Coney brewery. It was literally a typo that makes us look like the big bad wolf. It’s misinformation, and we’ve been chasing our tail around the Internet trying to put out fires.” Dochney adds, “We want our reputation to be for supporting the classic Brooklyn things — it’s funny it’d be us they mention.” Actually, a Brooklyn Brewery beer hall might’ve been the best of all evils. We’ve said it before: If aDunkin’ Donuts on the boardwalkcan happen in Seaside Heights, it can happen here.
By the way, the brewery certainly has its hands full today: Dochney says the giant tanks it ordered from Germanyfor its new brewhouse(opening at the end of the year) couldn’t be loaded off of the dock because of Election Day today, so the delivery (a month in the making) will have to wait for tomorrow.
