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.
6/10
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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
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Slightly hazy yellow, pour, with a small white head. Crisp, clean, spruce and pine sap notes. Light toasty cereals. Refreshing.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle.
Pours orange, with a small white head. Fruity, light stone fruit, some pineapple, yeasty, light cereals. Full mouthfeel, carb is very soft. Finish is light to medium bitter, fruit drops off, very yeasty, semi sweet, muddled finish.
Pours orange, with a small white head. Fruity, light stone fruit, some pineapple, yeasty, light cereals. Full mouthfeel, carb is very soft. Finish is light to medium bitter, fruit drops off, very yeasty, semi sweet, muddled finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown pour off white head. Light fruity aroma, subtle citrus, and some pine with alot of dark bready malts, and some carame malts. Full mouthfeel, soft carb. Very very bitter finish with alot of caramel malts, and pine resins.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can. Pours deep dark brown with small off-white head. Green peppers and roast malt on the nose. Not as much of the green pepper in the flavour, fortunately, more of an emphasis on coffee and roasted malts. This is okay, but neither the roast nor the coffee is coming through particularly strong.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jan 2025
at 01:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500mL bottle. Pours black with a small, fast-fading tan head. Roasted malts and rum barrels on the nose; surprisingly light. Flavour has plenty of rum barrels swimming on top of the base beer. Boozy on the finish. The base beer is good, but this is lacking integration; would probably benefit from aging a year or so.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Boxing Rock Brewing Co. - Small Batch Brewery & Retail Store
on 05 Jan 2025
at 22:15
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
Flight pour at Battery Park. Pours black with a beige head. Wet roasted malt on the nose. Flavour has roasted malt, dry but lacking complexity. Fairly standard NS dry stout.
Tried
from Draft
at
Battery Park Beer Bar
on 30 Dec 2024
at 01:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
473mL can. Pours black with beige head. Aroma has a nice bite of pine and some roasty malts. Flavour has good pine expression, roasty malt base, earthy. Good balance between the hops and malt; nice bite. Very solid.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Nov 2024
at 06:50
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
473mL can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has a nice mix of roasted malt and earthy hops -- pretty solid balance. Flavour is nice and bitter, with lots of medium roasted malt, bitter piney hops, and some earthiness. Aggressively bitter hops with a solid roast base. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Nov 2024
at 06:48
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
473mL can. Pours clear gold with white head. Aroma has citrus, butterscotch. Flavour has a ton of bitter burnt rubber, citrus peel. Pretty mild carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2024
at 02:51