Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of Brooklyn Lager.
Local whistle-wetter Brooklyn Brewery is setting sail for new lands, relocating its headquarters from Williamsburg to the Navy Yard in 2018, where it will also open a new brewery and rooftop beer garden.
Company honchos say they’ve inked a 40-year lease on one-and-a-half football fields’ worth of space in the former shipyard — a far more stable and spacious prospect than its current digs on Wythe Avenue, where rents have skyrocketed over the past 20 years and there is no room for expansion.
“It’s the right combination of industrial space with industrial leases that makes sense,” said chief executive Eric Ottoway.
Ottoway intends to keep the company’s tourist-magnet Williamsburg brewery and taproom open at least until its lease expires in 2025.
But the Navy Yard operation will have more room for visitors to tour the brewery, and its rooftop eatery and drinkery will offer seating for 400 customers — not to mention sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline.
The brewery’s new home will be in the Navy Yard’s Building 77 — where iconic Jewish appetizing emporium Russ and Daughters also signed a lease for a massive production and retail facility in February.
The windowless storage space at Flushing and Clemont avenues is currently undergoing a $185-million taxpayer-funded renovation.
Brooklyn Brewery is also in the midst of hauling anchor on its main brewing operation in upstate New York and relocating to a new facility in bucolic Staten Island.
