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June 17, 2009
Der Schwarze Kolner To Open By End of Month
At this rate, we should all be sipping pilsners and wolfing down bratwurst before July 4th weekend rolls around. According to a guy we spoke to in the doorway of Der Schwarze Kolner, the German-style beer garden should be open by the end of the month. Bring it on!
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as I said before - much rather have 3 kids camping out in tents in backyard next door to some beer garden which will be much noisier and probably attract rats.
Posted by: Petebklyn at June 17, 2009 10:05 AM
Speaking of beer gardens, tonight is our big gathering at Rope, Inc. on the edge of Clinton Hill / Fort Greene at 415 Myrtle Avenue (between Vanderbilt Ave & Clinton Ave).
We will start around 6pm, but please feel free to drop in whenever you can. We plan on being there for at least a few hours.
Here are the directions:
http://tinyurl.com/n9rqcr
Posted by: Biff Champion at June 17, 2009 10:10 AM
Go back and look at the original "Rumor:" thread....very funny. Back when 11217 had a sense of humor!!!! :)
I still want to know if there's going to be a crispy skin pork hock on the menu!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 10:13 AM
thanks dibs, that made my morning.
Posted by: DeLepp at June 17, 2009 10:30 AM
Can't wait.
I'll be there and, god willing, I'll be drunk.
Posted by: houseowax at June 17, 2009 10:34 AM
Yikes... scary name. "The Black Cologner" Do we have to wear knee-high boots to eat snausages there?
Posted by: tybur6 at June 17, 2009 10:41 AM
tybur6...see my post in the "Rumor:" thread...
OK everyone listen up, especially you altervoce. I emailed an ex-colleague who is german and born in Cologne. Here's what he said...
"That spelling makes no sense to me. If the word is Koelner, it would be a black or dark-haired person from Cologne; if it is spelled Kellner, it would be a black or dark-haired waiter. In the Cologne dialect it would be called "Dae Schwatte Koelner",or better yet "Dae Schwatte Jung vun Koelle." Aren't you sorry you asked?"
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 27, 2009 2:24 PM
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 10:44 AM
Wow, I sure was in a mood on that "rumor" thread.
Must've been around the holidays...
Can't wait for the beer garden however.
Posted by: 11217 at June 17, 2009 10:50 AM
Actually, the owner is a German of African descent, hence "black Cologner":
http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/der-schwarze-kolner-the-black-cologner/
Posted by: JIPS at June 17, 2009 10:54 AM
Robs comment about heaven was hilarious, 11217 how was BA?
Posted by: DeLepp at June 17, 2009 10:59 AM
Goodness gracious Dave,
It's "Kölner" (with an umlaut over the o). There's no rocket science involved. There's a typo on the title of the blurb but your friend should have figured out that "Kolner" is simply a mistake of the umlauted version of "Koelner". You see it spelled both ways. And it's hardly dialect, indeed...which considering, is kind of funny.
As I've said before, I'm glad Martin et al are finally opening something.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 11:03 AM
BA was amazing as always, DeLepp. Thanks for asking. It's the only other city besides New York where there is the perfect storm of food, culture, architecture and energy, in my opinion. And as we've already discussed, the people are beyond stunning. I'm a big people watcher anyway, but it's craziness down there. I think I'm going on a veggie diet for a couple weeks though...I had enough steak to least me a while!
Posted by: 11217 at June 17, 2009 11:06 AM
Hopefully they have litre steins of spaten optimator.
Posted by: dirty_hipster at June 17, 2009 11:12 AM
BrooklynGreene, I don't have a keyboard that types EUROTRASH.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 11:21 AM
Oh, Dave...Hhhhh...
To type an o with an umlaut in Word, hold the control and shift keys down simultaneously and hit the semi-colon/colon key, let go of the control and shift keys and hit the "O" key. If you hit the "A" key instead, you'll get an umlaut over an "ä".
There are many examples, albeit a bit obsolete, of words in English incorporating umlauts.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 11:42 AM
Testing...
o
Nope. That may work in Word but not posting on brownstoner with my Bloomberg keyboard!!!!
Besides, a cedilla for posting to my latino friends would be more useful!!!!
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 11:51 AM
Thanks, JIPS, for the confirmation. Let it go, BG; some folks just need to be right all the time.
Posted by: altervoce at June 17, 2009 11:53 AM
Don't you mean "Eüröträsh" DIBS?
Posted by: SnarkSlope at June 17, 2009 12:01 PM
Dave,
In Word, to type a "ç", hold the control key and hit the comma key, let go of the control key and hit "C". Voilà! And there you have it!
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 12:05 PM
A cedilla is useful for French speakers, not Latinos. That would be a tilda.
Dave, you can also just write an "e" after the "o" and it's the same sound as the umlaut.
Posted by: JIPS at June 17, 2009 12:11 PM
No one has mentioned that " Schwarze" is Yiddish slang for, um the "n word".
Posted by: Prodigal_Son at June 17, 2009 12:12 PM
I meant tilda.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 12:12 PM
I prefer the circumflex (^), which most closely resembles an Asshat.
Posted by: Biff Champion at June 17, 2009 12:15 PM
Uma cedilha sirve no portugues.
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at June 17, 2009 12:30 PM
Prodigal Son,
We were pleasantly avoiding that one. Thank you for "bringing it to light"...
And no, it's not exactly the case.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 1:13 PM
Actually, the Yiddish word is "shvartzer" and it means black, just as it does in German, from which it is derived (as is most Yiddish). It may be used in a pejorative sense by some speakers, but it does not mean n***er.
http://www.bubbygram.com/yiddishglossary.htm
Posted by: JIPS at June 17, 2009 1:19 PM
Thank you Jips for that.
Meanwhile, of course, the word would be spelled with Hebrew letters.
:-)
אַ שיינעם דאַנק
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 1:29 PM
Wow! Hebrew letters will post properly! I was wondering if that would work.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 1:47 PM
If you use a Mac, you type "Kölner" [or at least the "ö" part by holding down the "option" key while pressing "u" and then type "o". To type "ç" you just press "option" and "c" simultaneously. Likewise ñ, in Spanish, is "option" and "n", followed by "n"; "õ", in Portuguese, is "option" "n", followed by "o" instead of "n", usw.
Macs are SO elegant!
Posted by: Bob Marvin at June 17, 2009 1:59 PM
Here is some more info on the place: http://www.clintonhillblog.com/?p=2648
I have met one of the owners, Dale, and am wishing him and his girlfriend Randi (also an owner) the best of luck. I can't wait for a hefeweizen!
Posted by: skfk at June 17, 2009 2:28 PM
Someone please tell me why this is a "beer garden" and not simply a bar?
Posted by: werner at June 17, 2009 2:50 PM
That's actually a good question, werner...especially since it says this on the Clinton Hill Blog...
"We’ll have communal tables, sidewalk seating, and a small garden out back"
To me, a beer garden is going to need to have more than just a small garden out back...
I'm guessing they are calling it a beer garden as a marketing ploy.
Franklin Park in Crown Heights is a much better example of a real beer garden, in my opinion. A great place, if you haven't been.
Posted by: 11217 at June 17, 2009 2:53 PM
The downfall of Europe originated in a beer hall.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 17, 2009 3:11 PM
"The downfall of Europe..."? David...please.
Anyway, on the bright side, this is supposedly going to be a garten, not a hall or keller or whatever it was with "that man". Feh! Pitooee!!!
Yes, beer garden is a bit of a stretch but there is a little courtyard in there that, dressed up, might do.
A real beer garden can be fun...I much prefer a Weindorf though. Ah, the Moselle!
But we have to admit that the large selection of beers both on tap and by the bottle (I think in a previous blurb somewhere) sounded good. If they do it right and clean the pipes constantly, the beer will be much better than the wretched liquid often served up around this City.
Now, if they had good cidre!
Frankly, a nice pub, not a dive, would be nice too in the neighborhood. Something with comfortable seating.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 4:10 PM
So maybe they can call it a beer small courtyard.
Posted by: 11217 at June 17, 2009 4:16 PM
Since we're speaking of languages:
وين البنت من باي ردج؟
Posted by: sixyearsandcounting at June 17, 2009 4:29 PM
"black Cologner"
Covert race/class....ah, nevermind.
I guess I should just be glad that BrooklynGreen didn't write us a Hebrew haiku.
Posted by: East New York at June 17, 2009 4:55 PM
We might be speaking in tongues around 10pm tonight.
Posted by: Biff Champion at June 17, 2009 4:56 PM
East New York,
That was Yiddish...it's written with the Hebrew alphabet.
Posted by: BrooklynGreene at June 17, 2009 6:06 PM
Oh...thanks.
Posted by: East New York at June 17, 2009 6:11 PM
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