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.
7.5/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the brewery. Pours a hazy orange yellow color with a medium sized creamy white head. Average head retention. Aroma of mildly sausage-like smoke, pale wheat. The taste is wheat, mild caramel and a smoky finish. Medium bodied, very drinkable. Nicely done.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jun 2013
at 18:24
6.2/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at Beer Run. Pours a hazy yellow color with a large frothy white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of nutty notes, bread, spice, banana and citrus. The taste is bready malts, herbal hops, nuts and strong phenolic notes. Medium-full bodied. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jun 2013
at 23:52
6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at Beer Run. Pours a hazy dark reddish brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of earthy, herbal hops and mild nuttiness. The taste is the same with a bit of caramel added. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Jun 2013
at 23:50
6.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a medium sized creamy white head. Good head retention. Aroma of citrus, floral and herbal hops with a wheat finish. The taste is herbal, resin, citrus hops and dry wheat. Thin-medium bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2013
at 19:31
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a very dark brown color with a large creamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of pale malts, nuts, mild smoke. The taste is nuts, smoke, pale malts. Medium bodied, interesting and quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2013
at 19:24
8.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Growler from the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a large creamy brown head. Good head retention. Aroma of big chocolate notes, roast and mild salinity. The taste is big chocolate notes, roasted malts, mild bitter hops, mild mineral notes. Medium bodied. Very nice beer.
Tried
from Growler
on 09 Apr 2013
at 20:54
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler from Beer Run. Pours a dark rust-brown color with a large tan foamy head. Good head retention. Aroma of banana, grapes, caramel, bread, earthy and mild nutty notes. The taste is bready malts, lots of clove, peppery yeast, mild banana and stone fruits. Medium bodied and pretty dry. Solid.
Tried
from Growler
on 09 Apr 2013
at 20:53
6.4/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Growler from the brewery. Pours a hazy copper color with a thin off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of tart apples, candi sugar, pale malts. The taste is bready malts, spice, candi sugar, tart fruits. Medium bodied, mild heat. Decent.
Tried
from Growler
on 09 Apr 2013
at 20:36
5.9/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a medium sized creamy brown head. Good head retention. Aroma of big bourbon and wood notes, roasted malts, anise, mint, chocolate. The taste is huge wood notes, mint, bourbon, roasted malts, tart fruits. Medium bodied, slight lingering bitterness. Seems like this picked up too much barrel character.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2013
at 19:20
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the brewery. Pours a dark brown color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, vibrant plum notes in the finish. The taste is roasted malts, chocolate, tart fruits, nuts and a vinous notes. Medium bodied. Quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2013
at 19:19