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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6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Poured from 474mL can. Black with full beige head. Dry roast malt with a fair bit of metallic notes. Meh.
Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2024 at 03:24

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Poured from 473mL can. Chill hazed copper brown with small off white head. Toffee malt, mild pint hop bitterness, decent red ale.
Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2024 at 02:52

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can. Chill hazed gold with small white head. Mild citrus and pine hops, clean, simple, above average.
Tried from Can on 14 Sep 2024 at 02:03

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Poured from the tap @ Boxing Rock Halifax. Clear golden orange with small white head. Resinous grapefruit hops, feint caramel malt with just a feint hint of diacetyl. Minus the diacetyl (very feint), this is what I would consider to be a better version of Vicars Crossing (more hop bitterness, slightly less maltiness, but otherwise quite similar).
Tried from Draft on 12 Sep 2024 at 17:24

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Poured from the tap @ Boxing Rock Halifax. Clear golden orange with small white head. Old school, caramel malt, grapefruit hops, decent.
Tried from Draft on 12 Sep 2024 at 17:17

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
473ml can. Pours a clear amber gold with a small, foamy, long lasting, white head that laces. Mild, sweet aroma of grainy caramel malt, honey, lemon zest and herbal hops. Sweet flavour of grainy caramel malt, honey, orange zest, green tea, grass and light piney hops in a dry, bitter finish. Light body with a slick texture and average carbonation. Interesting.
Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2024 at 04:48

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
375ml (thx, Renny!) @ Sales Force. Appearance: cloudy golden with a white head. Aroma: lots of botanicals as in the gin barrels, some sweetness and tartness. Taste: along the same lines, lots of ginger (probably these notes coming from the elderflowers), soapy, intense. Overall: interesting.
Tried on 01 Aug 2024 at 05:38

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Poured from 500mL bottle (pkg Oct 17, 2022). Hazy gold with full white head. Very kombucha forward, elderflower subtleness, weird for a beer, but makes a nice kombucha. Wondering whether this actually has any beer and should be included on ratebeer or whether it should be unrateable...
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2024 at 05:34

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
375mL bottle. Pours murky yellow with white head. Aroma has citrus, elderflower, wheaty malts. Flavour has citrus, floral notes, some wheat, lime peel, lingering kombucha-esque acidity. A bit too acidic on the finish, but actually pretty refreshing.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2024 at 05:32

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
375mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a medium white head. Aroma has plenty of citrus, elderflower, and a touch of black tea. Flavour is vegetal, with lots of floral elderflower, tart citrus, and a sort of lemon lime soda character. Can't say this is good, but it's not a disaster.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2024 at 05:31