Sebago Brewing Company executives are enthused about its plans for a new, $5 million corporate headquaters and brewery they are proposing in Gorham.

“Our sales are out pacing our production,” Kai Adams, a co-founder, said recently. “We want our customers to have access to our beer.”

So, the company is seeking approval from the town to construct a brewery, tasting room, event/function center, warehouse and corporate offices on lower Main Street (Route 25). Plans are for a 31,000 square foot project on a six-acre site that is part of a large land tract Shaw Brothers Family Foundation bought earlier this year. Sebago Brewing would lease the lot from the non-profit foundation established by Jon and Danny Shaw of Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc, of Gorham.

“It’s a great site for the community,” Adams said.

The company will present its vision for the facility to Gorham planners at a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 7, in Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St. Planners have already viewed the property at a site walk. The Sebago Brewing proposal is across the street from Nappi Distributers.

Sebago Brewing has outgrown its headquarters in the Gorham Industrial Park where it’s been based for about a decade. Town approval of its plans would ensure the business remains in Gorham and would double the capacity of its brewery.

The company was founded in 1998 by Brad Monarch, president; Tim Haines, treasurer; and Adams, vice president. It has brew pub locations in Gorham, Kennebunk, Portland and Scarborough.

Haines said Great Falls Construction of Gorham would build the new facility.

Tom Poirier, town planner, said this week the proposal is not on Monday’s agenda for final approval. He said the company is re-designing grade of the site.

David Galbraith, Gorham’s zoning administrator, doubted construction of a building would likely start this fall while Poirier did expect some site work would be accomplished.

The brewery’s proposed expansion would place the business adjacent to recreational activities that include walking trails and a public access to the Presumpscot River along with restoring agriculural uses that the Shaw Brothers Family Foundation is planning on its 258-acre tract.

The tract was a portion of a 300-acre grant in 1730 to John Tyng of Massachusetts during the reign of the British King George II, according to the “History of Gorham, Maine” by Hugh McLellan.

The Shaw foundation’s tract, commonly known in recent years as the Ross Grant, historically was in agriculure but had been planted to pine trees several decades ago. A large portion of the 258-acre site was cleared and seeded in August by the foundation that wants about 100 acres restored to hayfields.

Sebago Brewing says it is negotiating with the Shaw foundation to grow some hops on the site. “It’s a blank canvas,” Haines said recently as he scanned the expanse of land.

Tim Haines, left, and Kai Adams, two of three founders of Sebago Brewing Co., display cans of their product while standing at the site on Route 25 in Gorham where they plan to build a $5 million headquarters. Brad Monarch, also a co-founder, is not pictured.