Boxing Rock Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
218 Water Street, Shelburne, B0T 1W0, Canada
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.

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7.1
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
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
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
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
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

gave a cheers!

7.9
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
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
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
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


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

A 330 ml bottle at the Knot pub in Lunenburg. A decent pale ale, fruity and very piney.

Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2025 at 20:32