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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5.8/10 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 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 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 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

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
473mL can, pours a clear copper orange with a small white head. Nose has plenty of diacetyl, lots of sweet caramel malt, and bitter resins. Flavour has resinous hops, diacetyl, and syrupy caramel malt. Bitter and buttery -- that diacetyl destroys this. There's more egregious butter bombs out there, but this is still undrinkable in my books.
Tried from Can on 01 Nov 2024 at 02:49

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
473mL can. Pours clear gold with white head. Aroma has gentle citrus and pine. Flavour has pine, dry malts, really nice hoppy bite. Pretty solid.
Tried from Can on 13 Oct 2024 at 22:08

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pint at the Halifax taproom. Pours clear gold with a light beige head. Aroma has dry caramel malts. Flavour has burnt caramel malts, resinous pine. Nice hoppy bite. Pretty decent west coast double.
Tried from Draft on 10 Oct 2024 at 15:50

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
473mL can. Pours clear pale blonde with small white head. Aroma has light airy hops and perhaps some pale malts. Flavour has cracker malts and iron; a bit soggy. Meh.
Tried from Can on 07 Oct 2024 at 01:07

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Sampled in a 5 oz taster from a cask at Henry House in Halifax a few days past. It showed copper-gold in color with a white skim surviving across the top. The drink was initially somewhat hoppy followed by grass and grain. Some bitterness with a decent lacing action. It is what it is, a mild pale ale. Inoffensive.
Tried from Cask on 21 Sep 2024 at 20:41

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Poured from 473mL can. Clear-ish gold with small white head. Simple, clean, feint hopping in the background. Uninteresting, but inoffensive.
Tried from Can on 16 Sep 2024 at 22:51