FIRST LOOK: Brooklyn Brewery's New Headquarters in the Navy Yard

• Pictured: The view from the roof of Building 77 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photos by John V. Santore

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, NY — The view from the roof of the Navy's Yard's Building 77 sweep 360 degrees, from Downtown Brooklyn to the East River to Manhattan's skyscrapers beyond.

Brooklyn Brewery thinks the only thing that's missing is beer — and it's working to fix that.

Starting in early 2018, the Williamsburg-based company will move its headquarters, currently located at North 11th Street and Wythe Avenue, to Building 77.

Brooklyn Brewery will also power up a new brewing facility capable of producing 50,000 barrels, or 100,000 kegs, of beer annually.

In the future, guests will be able to tour the company's ground floor brewing facility

And up on the roof, the doors will open to a 16,000 square foot beer garden, half of it enclosed, half open to the sky.

The location of the planned rooftop beer garden

Three adjacent indoor event spaces will also be available, which (along with the beer garden) will be served by an in-house kitchen.

The view from inside one of the planned events spaces

During a tour of the space on Monday, company CEO Eric Ottaway confirmed that while the business side of the Brewery will have moved to Building 77 by 2018, brewing will continue in Williamsburg until at least 2025, when the company's lease at its current facility is up.

He said that while Brooklyn Brewery will maintain a foothold in its old neighborhood, likely running a retail space or brewpub there, it can't count on its ability to afford a manufacturing space there, considering that "rents are so crazy."

CEO Eric Ottaway speaks to reporters before leading a tour of the building

Ottaway said that 125 company jobs will initially come to Building 77, of which about 75, or 60 percent, will be new (the others will be filled by employees transferred from Williamsburg).

Within a few years, he said, as Williamsburg brewing is phased out, as many as 225 workers could come to be employed at the Navy Yard, with additional jobs created in the process.

Hiring for the Navy Yard will probably start in the second half of 2017, Ottaway said.

All Navy Yard jobs are required to pay at least a living wage, which the city has currently set at $11.50 per hour with health benefits, and $13.13 without health benefits (though that could increase in the future).

In addition to its future Navy Yard facility, Brooklyn Brewery also intends to move production currently based in upstate New York to Staten Island, Ottaway said. That would allow it to centralize all of its brewing near the ports that ship its beer internationally, he said, accounting for about 50 percent of company revenue.

A slice of the view that awaits future rooftop guests