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Its name says Valhalla,
but its interior reads more like an empty Crate & Barrel showroom
or minimalist model condo. There's just entirely too much white drywall
going on in the place. And the multiple flatscreens hanging there
gives it that extra sense of a Best Buy gone wrong. I swear there's
a giant plastic Viking torso on the wall or something that made me
wonder what kind of psychedelics the owners were doing when they purchased
the thing from the Oriental Trading Company. The draw here is obviously
not the atmosphere but the large variety of microbrews, both foreign
and domestic. You have everything from your stouts to your rose petal-tasting
IPAs to your lighter pilsners, and everything in between. I'm not
particularly adventurous in my beer choices, I must say, so standing
there sampling holds minimal interest for me beyond going back to
the well a few times for a limited selection of brews I've had in
the past. I was there with a couple guys who know and appreciate beer,
which always makes things a little more interesting, but couldn't,
in this case, make up for the general lack of enthusiasm I felt for
the place as a whole. There was just a ho-hum, lackluster feel about
the joint as a whole, and standing with all of that light wood and
white certainly didn't inspire me to hang out and wait around for
the fun to spring forth. [MF]
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