Champion Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Charlottesville,
Virginia,
United States 🇺🇸
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.
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the brewery. Clear copper large creamy off-white head good retention. Aroma of cherry, pepper, leather, grape, oak, mild funk. Taste is cherry, plum, oak, funk, hints of chocolate. Medium bodied, lingering tartness.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2018
at 18:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the brewery. Pours golden with a small white head. Aroma is sour fruit, funk, hay, earth. Flavor is sour stone fruit, earth, funk, sour grape.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Dec 2018
at 18:15
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz can pours out gold topped with a white head. Nose is fruit dank hops some floral and sweet melons. Taste is more of the melons dank hops and some caramel sweet malts.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Dec 2018
at 03:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz can from Tavour. Dark golden pour with one finger creamy head. Aroma is citrus, agave and caramel. Taste charges in with a big bitter bite, citrus peel and tequila. Quite a mixture. Finishes quick, lingering burn.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2018
at 00:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
The aromaz are resin Hops and a little bit of caramel malt. Flavors are Lake no a little dry at first going sweeter, soapy. Okay body a little boozy warmth in the Finish.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2018
at 01:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7
Draft at Pour Taproom. Clearish golden color medium white head. Light pine aroma. Taste is lightly bitter resiny pine, light body. OK
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2018
at 22:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Funky pear nose. All head but settles to a cloudy golden. Yeasty pear and white grape. Light body, soft carbonation.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2018
at 01:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Pours hazy dark orange with foamy off-white head, faint citrus aroma, high carbonation, bitter grapefruit taste, thin body, long finish. Decent IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Oct 2018
at 20:59
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. Pours clear golden yellow with foamy white head, lightly doughy malt aroma, high carbonation, bitter malt taste, lightly grassy hops flavor, thin body, abrupt finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2018
at 01:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Pours dark brown with slight reddish tint against the light, foamy small beige head, coffee-caramel malt aroma, medium carbonation, bitter roasted malt/coffee taste, with toffee and a bit of chocolate, smooth body, long finish. A bit watery but nice.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Oct 2018
at 01:39