Horny Hideaway brewpub to replace Pump House (CORRECTED 6/1/2009)

Corrected Text posted  June 1, 2009:
Another brewpub is in the hopper for the Bay View area.

Former Milwaukee Pump House business owner Mike Murray confirmed May 19 that the former pumping station at 2011 S. First St. was sold to Horny Goat Brewing Company the week of May 11. Former property owner Michael Pinterics confirmed that he sold the property.

Horny Goat (hornygoatbrewing.com), a Wisconsin craft brewer whose labels include Belgian Wheat, Exposed, and Hopped Up ‘N Horny, lists 2011 S. First St. as the location of its planned brewpub, the Horny Hideaway, at the Midwest Microbrews website (midwestmicrobrews.com).

A call to Horny Goat was not immediately returned.

Murray said he sold the Pump House business in October 2007 to the owners of Riviera Maya, 2258 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., who he said operated the Pump House until the property was sold May 2009.

Horny Goat would be the third Bay View area brewpub to open in 2009, following the St. Francis Brewery, 3825 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., and the anticipated Bay View Brew Haus, 2535 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.

Murray and partner David Skwarek opened the Pump House as a bar and grill in fall 2006. Michael Pinterics and David’s brother Daniel Skwarek were listed as owners of the property until the recent sale to “Brew Haus LLC,” according to city property data.

The building is along the southern bank of the Kinnickinnic River just west of First Street, and features 4,800 square feet of first floor space with 3,000 square feet on the second floor.

Historically, the building was a pumping station for the Milwaukee Fire Department’s fire hydrants.

CORRECTION (June 1, 2009): Murray was never the property owner, as erroneously stated in the print edition of this story, according to Pinterics. The property at 2011 S. First St. was owned by Michael Pinterics and Daniel Skwarek, brother to David Skwarek, who was Mike Murray’s Pump House business partner. The property was in the Skwarek, not Murray, family. The version of the story above corrects these errors.