Brooklyn and Beer: A Match Made in 100 Breweries By Larry McShane Associated Press Writer May 12, 2004 NEW YORK (AP) - Raise a glass to Brooklyn, once home to more than 100 breweries, former producer of more beer than Milwaukee, the borough where Prohibition was greeted with a wink ... and an ice-cold draft. Make a toast to William Johnson, who opened Brooklyn's first brewery back in 1822. Lift a mug for John F. Trommer, a 19th-century German immigrant renowned for his all-malt Brooklyn brew. Strange as it seems, Brooklyn - famed for its churches, cemeteries and Coney Island's...