Boxing Rock Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Shelburne,
Nova Scotia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
Description
We are two chemical engineers who fell in love with Shelburne, Nova Scotia – the place, the people and the lifestyle. We quickly discovered that our career options here were limited. So…in 2012 we founded a craft brewery and made our own jobs, and a few others too.
We create craft beer experiences – we like to think we meet each of our customers where they are at on their craft beer journey. We do this by focusing on quality and consistency (like the well-trained engineers we are) and by crafting our products with purpose and intention. We brew a wide variety of styles and we believe we have a beer for everyone, even those of you who think you don’t like beer. We design beers to challenge your assumptions, and to honour traditional styles. We love what we do and where we live, and we love helping people like you find a local beer that you will love.
We were not always beer geeks – we have been on our own journey with craft beer. We started brewing in lobster pots in the backyard and fermenting in carboys in the living room (which occasionally meant yeast clumps on the ceiling)…and when we started drinking beer at least one of us mixed it with Clamato juice.
We create craft beer experiences – we like to think we meet each of our customers where they are at on their craft beer journey. We do this by focusing on quality and consistency (like the well-trained engineers we are) and by crafting our products with purpose and intention. We brew a wide variety of styles and we believe we have a beer for everyone, even those of you who think you don’t like beer. We design beers to challenge your assumptions, and to honour traditional styles. We love what we do and where we live, and we love helping people like you find a local beer that you will love.
We were not always beer geeks – we have been on our own journey with craft beer. We started brewing in lobster pots in the backyard and fermenting in carboys in the living room (which occasionally meant yeast clumps on the ceiling)…and when we started drinking beer at least one of us mixed it with Clamato juice.
8.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2026
at 22:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
473mL can. Pours clear light brown with a beige head. Dry bready malts and bread crusts on the nose. Flavour is very bready, pretty dry, nice bread crust character. Solid pub ale, great malts.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2026
at 01:19
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
473mL can. Pours clear blonde with a small white head. Biscuit malts and some faint dry grass on the nose. Flavour has light cracker malts, some dry grass, a bit selterzy. Solidly meh.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Dec 2025
at 22:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
On tap at Battery Park. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Toasted brown bread, nuts, and dusty espresso on the nose. Flavour has dry bread crusts, crunchy nuts, dusty espresso beans. Great, dry brown ale.
Tried
from Draft
at
Battery Park Beer Bar
on 21 Dec 2025
at 02:09
2.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 3
Overall 2.5
473mL can. Pours clear gold with almost no head. Smells like an Olands; pissy wort. Flavour is not much better with loads of unfermented wort and harsh herbal grass. What happened here? I know Boxing Rock can do better than this.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2025
at 21:41
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
355ml can. Pours a hazy yellow gold with a small, creamy, short lived, white head that laces. Mild aroma of bready pale malt and floral hops. Sweet flavour of grainy pale malt, honey, orange and floral hops in a crisp, dry, mild bitter finish. Light body with an oily to watery texture and average carbonation. Average even for a boring style.
Tried
from Can
from
Wine and Beyond - Lethbridge
on 07 Dec 2025
at 05:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy copper, with a medium beige head. Aroma of pine and spruce, light grapefruit, caramel. Full mouth feel, solid carb. Medium to high bitterness. And old school dipa.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2025
at 23:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Battery Park Beer Bar. Pours hazy dull gold with a white head. Mostly dried apricot on the nose. Flavour has dried apricot, some wheat. Good for what it is.
Tried
from Draft
at
Battery Park Beer Bar
on 10 Aug 2025
at 14:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating - A 650ml bottle brought home from my trip to Nova Scotia last summer, brought from Bishop's Cellar in Halifax. Pours a darkish amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of fruits, cereals, caramel, lemons and a medium dry finish. Enjoyable
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2025
at 07:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating - A 650ml bottle from NSLC Lunenburg from my Maritime trip last summer & poured at home in Jersey, Channel Islands. It's a redwood colour with a off white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, red fruits, citrus, honey, pine, raisins, earth & sweet malt. Full bodied. You can definitely tastes the alcohol. Medium bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2025
at 21:20