Champion Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Charlottesville,
Virginia,
United States πΊπΈ
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 2012
Closed in 2023
Contact
324 6th St SE, Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
Description
Champion brewing company is Virginia's most progressive brewery, producing a wide variety of ales in two locations: our downtown Charlottesville tap room and our Belmont production facility. Our production brewery known as the 'missile factory' produces our core and seasonal beers on a 30-barrel brewhouse, at a current operating capacity of 15,000 barrels per year. Our original tap room produces constantly changing and innovative seasonals, one-offs, and barrel-aged wild beers.
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at the brewery, 9.15.20. Hazy pale straw, large creamy tan head good retention. Aroma of tart fruits, passionfruit, pale malt. Taste is pretty much Gatorade and passionfruit. Medium bodied.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2020
at 01:10
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Can, from TapRm. Pours clear golden with large foamy off-white head, faint citrus aroma, medium carbonation, bitter resinous taste, thin body, long finish. Decent American style IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Aug 2020
at 15:24
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Blue can poured in glass. Slight aroma of orange hops. Clear pale. Taste is rather iniquitous IPA. Everybody gottah make IPA, there are tonz of them out there. Typical bitter hops and rather rude, like any IPA. So be it. Just another IPA - nothing special. Everybody thinks its a nifty beer. I'll tell you this. Buy just about any brand, can bottle or draft; they're all the same. Just buy the cheapest and there you have it. Not impressed the least. A good cheap lager is actually more enjotable and refreshing than 99% of the IPA out there. JMHO. Some carbonation, not much. Its pretty much mouth coating clear to the end. Not impressed, very rarely impressed by the man's beer, the IPA. Its just straight up happy BS.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2020
at 18:32
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Can as pictured. But, my can says nothing about 'with the sound of citra'. Look, I'm just so curious why IPA has to bastardize all the other styles? Take this for instance, its supposed to be a pilsner but its nothing more than an india pale lager. Come now, real pils is bitter but not IPA bitter. Somebody ruined this style it seems. It even smell like IPA. Can't we get back to style basics? Does everything have to taste like an IPA? Just asking. Yes, just another IPA tasting brew, there are a zillion of them out there, call godzilla, will yah?
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2020
at 21:06
6/10
Gold pour. Grassy and hoppy taste. Initial sweet and grassy flavor. Sour grassy palate with a little zesty burn. Easy carbonation
Tried
on 15 Jul 2020
at 02:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Guava and lillies aroma. Clear golden, medium head. Sweet guava and lilly. Brief appearance of grain. Medium body, easy carbonation.
Tried
on 15 Jul 2020
at 02:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from Beer52. Medium creamy white head. Hazy amber/light red pour. Light bitterness. A bit fruity
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jul 2020
at 23:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 oz. can bought at Total Wine - Melbourne, FL. Pours light gold color with a white head and fair retention. Almost no lacing. Sharp hoppy lemony pilsner aroma. The taste matches the nose. Sharp hoppy pilsner taste but not as bitter as I expected. Clean and crisp. Good example of the style.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2020
at 21:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can fromTapRm: pours clear gold with a white head. Aroma is slightly lemony and grassy. Taste is lightly bitter, some sweetness. Fizzy yellow beer. Not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2020
at 00:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
2/6/2020. Sample courtesy of the SHIG, cheers! My Brewery #3500. Pours clear golden with a small bubbly off-white head. Aroma is piney, earthy, leafy, fruity with a touch of minerals. Moderate sweetness and medium bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, average carbonation.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2020
at 18:35