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.
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a thin creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of big bourbon notes, roasted malts, coffee, vanilla, mild hops. The taste is vanilla, roasted malts, chocolate, whiskey, wood. Medium bodied, low carbonation, slight booze. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Oct 2013
at 22:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a clear dark brown color with a very thin tan head. Fair head retention. Aroma of peppery and earthy notes, tea, chocolate. The taste is strong tea notes, citrus, earth, chocolate. Medium bodied, slight lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2013
at 17:53
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a hazy amber color with a thin frothy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of caramel, toasted malts and some doughy notes. The taste is strong cinnamon, toasted malts, caramel. Thin bodied, and the fermentation temperature oddities didn’t do this one any favors.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2013
at 17:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a hazy orange color with a medium sized frothy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of lime, pale malts and floral notes. The taste is lime, cilantro, wheat, earth, snappy hops. Medium bodied and very drinkable. Liked this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2013
at 13:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a hazy orange color with a thin creamy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of intense peppers, citrus hops and caramel. The taste is intense peppers and citrus hops. Medium bodied, lingering heat.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2013
at 17:45
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft at the brewery. This is dyed blue, hence the bluish-purplish color. This frothy tan head. Fair head retention. Aroma of wheat with citrus and tropical hops. The taste is dry wheat, spice, earthy and citrus hop notes. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Aug 2013
at 17:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of caramel, nuts, mild earth. The taste is caramel, earth, mild hops. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2013
at 13:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the brewpub. Pours a hazy amber color with a large creamy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of big caramel notes, burnt sugar, faint citrus and apple notes. The taste is caramel, toffee, herbal hops. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2013
at 13:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft at the brewpub. FLORIDAWEISSEOHMIGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pours a hazy yellow color with a thin white head. Fair head retention. Aroma of tart peaches, wheat, caramel, mild lactic notes. The taste is peach, bright lemon, pale wheat. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jul 2013
at 13:00
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft at Whole Foods Market Charlottesville, Pours a dark brown color with a thin tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, bitter dark chocolate. The taste is sweet and bitter chocolate, coffee. Very reminiscent of chocolate covered espresso beans. Medium bodied, fair amount of booze. Very nice beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jun 2013
at 18:14