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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6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
3 week old can > pilsner glass A: Crystal clear pale gold with busy carbonation forming a tall frothy head. Head fell to surface patches and left big patches of lace. S: Sweet lemon, hay and bread. Lemon cake. T: Watery taste of bitter citrus hops and lemon zest with a woody doughy aftertaste. M: Thin bodied with average carbonation level. Refreshing and highly drinkable. O: Not bad but also not a radical departure from the norm and hardly worth $12/6.
Tried from Can on 07 Oct 2017 at 18:02

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
355ml can. Clear, orangey, brass colour with small, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, caramel malty, and fruity hoppy aroma, notes of mandarine and orange, a touch of orange biscuit. Taste is juicy, fruity hoppy, notes of jelly bears, mandarine, orange; bitter and alcoholic finish. Strange finish destroys much of the fun.
Tried from Can on 03 Oct 2017 at 21:51

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
355ml can. Clear, yellow-ish, faint golden colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Herbal-grassy and citrusy, hoppy aroma, notes of fresh hay, lemongrass, lemon balm, lemon biscuit. Taste is herbal, grassy and slightly citrusy hoppy, minimally floral, notes of lemongrass, lemon balm, hints of hay, a touch of shortbread. Light body, a minimally watery hop oil emulsion.
Tried from Can on 02 Oct 2017 at 14:19

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from Bruisin Ales. Pours gold with a creamy/bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Aroma is very citrus. Med body or better. Flavor seems orange citrus, sort of with peel. Bit of earth below. Fairly dry. Nicely bitter. Pretty hoppy. Good stuff.
Tried from Can on 15 Sep 2017 at 18:53

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 oz. can. Pours clear pale gold with a white head. Aroma of tropical fruits and pine. Taste is tropical fruit, citrus, melon, pineapple, pine. Good stuff.
Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2017 at 00:30

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 oz can shared by DCLawyer at Spacebar, thanks Jason! Clear orange with off-white head. Aromas of malt, citrus. Tastes of floral notes, citrus, light tropical fruit, malt, light biscuit. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2017 at 21:47

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
8th August 2017
GBBF Day 1. Cask. As ’Brasserie Belgian IPA’ 7.0%. Light haze on this yellowish gold beer, small white head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Floral lemon streak. Little tangerine. Tangy tropical fruits underneath. Smooth finish. Very tasty.
Tried from Cask on 27 Aug 2017 at 08:24

6/10
Clear gold bod med fizzy wht head. Floral spicy arma. Grassy spicy flav on a crisp pils back. Med ligt bod mod high carb. 6/3/7/3/14 3.3
Tried from Draft on 19 Aug 2017 at 11:07