Boxing Rock Brewery Opening in Shelburne

[weir]

I don't have much detail, I tried to squeeze them for some without much luck. All I can tell you is the company starting the brewery is from Ontario, they're opening in Shelburne and called our office yesterday looking for pricing on steam boilers for their hot water storage and kettles. He told me they have some brews planned that we don't have around here as far as he's aware and are hoping to be up an running middle of the year.

http://boxingrock.ca

[pet lion]

from Premier Wine & Spirits FB page

These guys dropped by this afternoon to discuss and taste their beers with us. It's no exaggeration to say none of us can wait to see this new brewery start selling beer out of Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

We tasted a Bohemian Pilsener, Biere de Garde (that's right, a Nova Scotian Biere de Garde), London Porter, Double IPA and Imperial Coffee Vanilla Stout - all stunning.

The brewery is slated to open on or before the first day of summer (June 21). Mark your calendar.

[pet lion]

I do like the octopus in a beer glass logo.

[mr x]

http://www.thecoastguard.ca/Business/20 ... -beer%3A/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mr x]

http://www.dal.ca/news/events/2013/03/1 ... booth.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This place reeks already.

[Araxi]

Good for them and I wish them all the best.

[AllanMar]

http://www.dal.ca/news/events/2013/03/1 ... booth.html

This place reeks already.

Haha, I wonder what you dont like about it.... Don't worry though, I'm sure it will never get past the planning stage......

[LiverDance]

http://www.dal.ca/news/events/2013/03/1 ... booth.html

This place reeks already.

Hahahaha, a bunch of fucking engineers, who's gonna do the work

[mr x]

lol, don't look for people who know, or are into craft beer. Attitude.

It does look like a go though this time.

http://www.thecoastguard.ca/Business/20 ... rystrong/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[AllanMar]

Surely they're qualified to clean bottles and shovel spent grain!

[Tony L]

Hahahaha, a bunch of fucking engineers, who's gonna do the work

Now that`s not nice.
I know at least ONE engineer who make a good drop of grog

[mr x]

Here's what happened to the old location. Looks like a historical society that absolutely fucked the deal.

http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/s ... house-deal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I love the logo (well, relative to the crap in this province anyway), but the name is not my cup of tea. At least the relocation made them change their name from Dock Street Brewing Co. before they were in too deep. Google is your friend people....

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[weir]

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[CorneliusAlphonse]

Hahahaha, a bunch of fucking engineers, who's gonna do the work

Now that`s not nice.
I know at least ONE engineer who make a good drop of grog

Dibs

[mr x]

Edit.

It's all a fucking joke. And I don't mean just these guys.

[Dirt Chicken]

Wink wink, nudge nudge

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[mr x]

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1 ... -old-story" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A pair of chemical engineers have named their new Shelburne brewery after a local shoal where ship captains used to drop feuding crewmen to settle their differences.

Boxing Rock Brewing Co. is hoping to serve up its initial slate of beers by June 21.

“The legend goes that 17th-century ships’ captains would deposit troublesome or mutinous crew onto Boxing Rock at low tide and they would be told to work out their differences because it goes underwater at high tide,” Henry Pedro, who heads the company, said Monday.

“We like to think that a barrel or a jug of beer was deposited there with them. It’s a good incentive to kiss and make up or fight to the death.”

Pedro and his business partner, Emily Tipton, are new to the brewing game.

“We’re both from southern Ontario,” Pedro said. “I’m from Toronto and Emily’s from the London area.”

He and Tipton’s husband are competitive Albacore dinghy sailors who race against each other every year at a Shelburne regatta.

“As the years went by, we started to take a liking to the place,” Pedro said. “Eventually, a couple of years ago, Emily and I got to talking and we cooked up this idea for starting a brewery.”

Before moving to Shelburne, Pedro spent a decade working in the automotive and industrial coatings and paint sectors.

“Emily spent time in the oil-patch in Alberta and most recently was working as an engineer for the (local) regional municipality.”

Pedro isn’t sure if their engineering backgrounds will give the brewery a leg-up when it comes to devising flavourful beer recipes.

“I don’t know if chemical engineers possess that type of skill or not. We think we do. But we’d like the beer-drinking public to decide that.

“What a chemical engineer’s really good at is making an industrial process run efficiently, and run repeatedly. We’ve got really good instincts for quality control.”

The brewery will be in a 5,000-square-foot building just off Exit 26 in Shelburne across the street from the Tim Hortons.

On Shore Construction was building the facility for its own use, but Boxing Rock leased it before completion.

On Shore is now installing a custom drainage system and in-floor heating in the building, which boasts ceilings tall enough for the 17-hectolitre brewhouse.

“It worked out really, really well for us because we could fit a brewery into there quite nicely, and it gave us the opportunity to complete it to our own specifications,” Pedro said.

The fermentation tanks are slated to arrive in mid-May from Charlottetown’s Diversified Metal Engineering Ltd. They will allow the brewery to produce 1,700 litres of beer in a batch.

“By December, we should have about 1,200 hectolitres made,” Pedro said. “But we’re aiming for 2,000 in the second year, and 3,000 in the third year.”

The business is using a combination of debt and private equity to build the company.

“It’s in the very, very high six figures,” Pedro said when asked how much money was required to get off the ground.

The initial market will be Nova Scotia, he said. “But there’s no reason why we wouldn’t look farther afield as time went on.”

Pedro was pretty tight-lipped over what type of beers Boxing Rock will produce.

“There may be as many as three to five available in the first six weeks of our operation.”

Over the past year, they have done taste tests on about 35 different recipes, including “everything from a blond summer ale to Russian Imperial stout, and every colour in between,” he said.

[pet lion]

Shared a bottle of the Temptation red ale picked up from Premier last night and was impressed. Tastes really nice.

[mr x]

Under the watchful eye of our brewing mentor, Dave Mozel from Outpost Brewing Company (soon to be established in Airdrie, Alberta), we've been brewing up a storm. Well, a lot of beer anyway. Today, we say goodbye to Dave. We've learned so much from him and enjoyed having him as part of our team for the past month. He has the patience of a saint...and a great sense of humour...and he likes rum - what more could you ask for? We wish him the best of luck with his new brewery and we are looking forward to a collaborative brew in the future.

[TimG]

Cool, kinda an odd/neat connection. Have to google this Outpost Brewing Company...

Update: Apparently Google has no idea who this guy / brewery are (Outpost that is).

Tim

[mr x]

Jasper Brewing Company.

Cool and neat weren't the first thoughts in my head.

[jeffsmith]

Jasper Brewing Company.

Cool and neat weren't the first thoughts in my head.

So he was the brewer at Jasper? They've put out out a few decent beers in the past.

[CartoonCod]

Look at the pleasant surprise I got today!
Here are my initial impressions:
The aroma consisted of a mild hopiness, some citrus, and a pretty decent biscuity toasty malt component. The color was dark amber, with low/moderate head retention. Very solid malt backbone (biscuity and slightly toasty) but was balanced towards the hops and citrus notes. There was a firm bitterness in the end (for the style), and it finished quite dry. I couldn't detect any diacetyl or DMS.
It is a very drinkable beer, definitely a session beer. This won't be the last case I buy from them. The one thing that sets this beer apart from others is the citrus zest. Initially I thought it was fantastic, but buy the end of the beer I was getting kind of tired of it. I guess it's just a bit too much for me. Nonetheless it does add a refreshing aspect to the beer, and it goes well with the warm temperature we have been having.

[mr x]

This won't be the last case I buy from them. The one thing that sets this beer apart from others is the citrus zest. Initially I thought it was fantastic, but buy the end of the beer I was getting kind of tired of it. I guess it's just a bit too much for me.

[CartoonCod]

What I meant when I said, "I guess it's just a bit too much for me." was that I think the beer could be improved with a bit lest of that citrus character. It is definitely still a fine beer.