Boxing Cat Brewery
Shanghai's pioneering craft brewery — founded in 2008 in the French Concession when craft beer was virtually unknown in China. Boxing Cat built Shanghai's craft beer scene from scratch, introducing the city's expat and adventurous local communities to American-style IPAs and Pale Ales. Their name is a nod to the brand of Chinese domestic beer sold in boxes — a knowing joke that became a beloved brand. Multiple Great British Beer Festival and World Beer Cup recognitions.
Beers by Boxing Cat Brewery
3 beers
The recurring character behind the beers
Boxing Cat Brewery brew across 2 style families.
Across these 3 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
With 3 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
Compared with 369 other breweries brewing American IPA:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Contender American IPA
Their beers place in the Top 62% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Boxing Cat Brewery
Shanghai's pioneering craft brewery — founded in 2008 in the French Concession when craft beer was virtually unknown in China. Boxing Cat built Shanghai's craft beer scene from scratch, introducing the city's expat and adventurous local communities to American-style IPAs and Pale Ales. Their name is a nod to the brand of Chinese domestic beer sold in boxes — a knowing joke that became a beloved brand. Multiple Great British Beer Festival and World Beer Cup recognitions.
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