{"id":3410,"date":"2022-11-04T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2022-11-04T22:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:30:29","slug":"moonraker-brewing-co-eyes-2023-opening-of-restaurant-in-cameron-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/11\/04\/moonraker-brewing-co-eyes-2023-opening-of-restaurant-in-cameron-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonraker Brewing Co. Eyes 2023 Opening of Restaurant in Cameron Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Jake Abbott \u2013 Staff Writer, Sacramento Business Journal<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Nov 4, 2022 \u2014 Moonraker Brewing Co. embarked on an ambitious brewery, taproom and restaurant project just before Covid-19 hit, and while delays have held the project up, operators say they are inching closer to the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn-based Moonraker Brewing Co. announced plans in 2020 for a project called Moonraker Millhouse on a 17-acre property in Cameron Park. The project is currently under construction and will include an approximately 20,000-square-foot building that houses a brewery, taproom and farm-to-fork restaurant, as well as a 9,000-square-foot outdoor beer garden and a private event space with its own private outdoor patio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The site met and exceeded our expectations. We wanted to feel like we were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Powell said the main delays have largely been due to Covid and permitting holdups, in addition to more than two months of start delays involving the facility&#8217;s steel structure being erected.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the outer structure is well underway. Powell said drywall is planned to go up next week, pending electrical inspections. Once that&#8217;s completed, all that would be left includes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our projected grand opening will be early 2023,&#8221; Powell said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The business has already started the hiring process and posted a job listing in mid-September for a head chef. The post stated that additional openings would follow in the near future. Powell said they expect to employ upward of 50 people for both its taproom and kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>Moonraker Brewing&#8217;s Auburn location on Earhart Avenue will remain as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Moonraker Brewing is partnering with Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) to install 12 electric vehicle chargers at the Cameron Park location, and plans to install a carbon dioxide recapture system that they hope will help them recapture up to 80% of the carbon dioxide the facility produces. They also plan to install solar panels at some point, Powell said.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was founded in 2016, Moonraker Brewing has grown to be one of the area&#8217;s largest breweries. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sacramento\/news\/2022\/11\/04\/moonraker-brewing-cameron-park-nears-opening.html?fbclid=IwAR11JsEtXClyRi7_fo0O1l5K8BSmngZ8PyjhKtZqRE68INuITHx9S5C5_Sw\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonraker Brewing is partnering with Tesla Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) to install 12 electric vehicle chargers at the Cameron Park location, and plans to install a carbon dioxide recapture system that they hope will help them recapture up to 80% of the carbon dioxide the facility produces. They also plan to install solar panels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}