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.

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7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Golden with a white head. Bright citrus, grass, earthy spicy hops. Medium body. Finish has a crisp bite. Refreshing and full-flavored. Great Pils.
Tried on 15 Feb 2018 at 23:48

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at home, Nivala. Color is dark brown with small brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Dark chocolate, coffee, bread and roasted malts. Nice bready robust stout.
Tried from Can on 27 Jan 2018 at 17:24

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 6
Pour is a black with a large tan head. Aroma is your typical roasted oatmeal stout but then comes the big ginger. Flavor is again the base oatmeal stout then come a way over the top bitter herbalness. I'm guessing that the cardamom. When i saw the adjuncts used in this beer I thought to my self that they don't really go together with this style. Way to herbal and it eventually takes over the base beer completely the more you have of it.
Tried on 25 Jan 2018 at 02:38

5.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Month old can > tulip A: Clear medium yellow with a short-lived head that fell to nothing. Big slow bubbles but nothing to leave any lace. S: Bready scent with some earthy/musty and herbal/leafy hop notes. T: Musty white grape flavor with some sweet bread and an off-putting sour note, maybe turning a little fruity. M: Medium light with low to average carbonation and a lingering sweetness on the finish. O: Below average overall and not cheap.
Tried from Can on 24 Jan 2018 at 02:28

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Deep hazy copper and bronze coloured body with a nice, two to three centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of peaches, apricots, grapefruits, bitter pine and a dash of alcohol noticeable. Medium-bodied; Strong apricot and peach flavours at first that fade to more of an alcohol bite with some bitterness from all the hops, with a good balance of malts and sugars and ending with a dash of grapefruit and some floral elements as well. Aftertaste shows some honey and agave sweetness way at the beginning with more of the fruits noticeable behind that and ending with an almost assertively bitter finish with cleanser, some citrus, a lot of pine and a deep bite towards the end. Overall, a fairly well-balanced yet enjoyable beer with a lot of fruit notes, some sweetness and a West Coast IPA feeling (not an Imperial, just Standard West Coast) beer throughout, but from here in Virginia of all places. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Whole Foods in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia on 22-October-2017 for US$2,99 sampled at home in Washington in front of the store on 20-January-2018.
Tried from Can on 21 Jan 2018 at 01:52

7/10
Nice fruity ipa, dry hop flavor mixes well with the agave. Smooth dipa.
Tried from Can on 17 Jan 2018 at 20:52

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours golden. Aroma is grapefruit, orange. Flavornis very bitter grapefruit peel, light orange, grass, rubbing alcohol.
Tried from Draft on 13 Jan 2018 at 13:28

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Tap at the brewery. Pours gold. Aroma of cracker, light fruit, grass. Flavor is grass, green leaves, light fruit, alcohol. It’s not bad.
Tried from Draft on 13 Jan 2018 at 13:20

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
On tap at the brewery. Pours brown with a dusting is an off white head. Aroma is bread, light fruit, caramel. Flavor is browning leaves, caramel, bread crust. Unexciting.
Tried from Draft on 13 Jan 2018 at 13:12

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap at the brewery. Pours murky brown. Aroma is plum, alcohol, funk, cherry. Flavor is plum, cherry, rose hops, earth, oak, vanilla.
Tried from Draft on 13 Jan 2018 at 13:09