We tried the pizzas from Beerd’s new vegan spinoff

We tried the pizzas from Beerd’s new vegan spinoff

Posted on: 17 Jul 2023

Beerd, a craft beer and pizza restaurant in High Kingsdown, have launched Treebeerd - a new Bristol vegan pizza restaurant. We checked out what's on offer.

Beerd is one of the most beloved fixtures of High Kingsdown, having served top-notch craft beer and pizza to the people of Bristol for 14 years now. As the name suggests, they’re dedicated to finding and stocking the best craft beer around – with a special dedication to the local breweries that make Bristol’s beer culture so solid.

But that’s not their only love – Beerd also are purveyors of perfect pizzas, with both perfected classics and inventive new options on offer; from the three-cheese Holy Trinity, to the meat-tastic Gunslinger topped with pepperoni, prosciutto, salami, chicken & peppadews.

Now, Beerd are spreading the love to the vegan community with a whole new spin-off: Treebeerd. With Treebeerd comes a whole host of brand-new vegan ‘zas – and we were lucky enough to try them.

A New Leaf

This is the most simple of Tree Beerd’s offerings – but no worse for it. An excellent vegan margherita, this is mostly as you might expect. The ‘Superstraccia’ plant-based stracciatella is pretty accurate, although it’s easier to recreate creamier cheeses as vegan. The real standout star here is the vegan parmesan – a delicious and crucial Italian cheese long denied to both vegans and veggies. The flavour and texture of the parmesan are bewilderingly accurate, and make this one of the best Margheritas around for the pickier vegans out there.

 

Tree Beerd

The eponymous pizza of this vegan venture has a hefty weight on its plant-based shoulders – the poster child for Tree Beerd, it’s likely to be one of the first pizzas most try. Luckily, it pulls it off. The mix of courgette and artichoke keeps this feeling light and fresh, and likely makes this one of the healthier pizzas on offer. It can get a little too juicy and salty at times, but luckily the dry, roasty flavours of the pine nuts cut right through that.

 

The Oliphaunt’s Leg

A white pizza option for those who say tomat-no to tomatoes, the Oliphaunt’s Leg is based with a thick, sinfully unctuous garlic crematta, and topped with vegan cheese, red onion, green chilli, peppers and vegan gyro. The overall effect is like an indulgent late-night kebab, cleaned up into gourmet cuisine – and then slapped down on a pizza base.

Whilst some might find the thick, gooey pizza a little overpowering, this might be the perfect vegan hangover cure – or companion to a heavy night of drinking.

 

The Spectacle

The star of this spectacle is ostensibly the aubergine, and it delivers – however, the show-stealer is the heaps of caramelised onion that pack a truly melt-in-the-mouth flavour punch across this pizza. Add that to the excellent vegan feta to complete the texture and flavour of this pizza, and you’ve got a showstopper. Not much more to say about this - but only because it's so good. Our favourite on this list, and the first to try if you're unsure about vegan pizza.

 

The Culprit

Okay, time to get personal: while I’m not vegan, I am vegetarian – and whilst I don’t miss meat, I do miss one type – chorizo. The Culprit absolutely hits this spot for me – the vegan chorizo and ‘nduja (another spicy sausage that I sadly never got to try) feel pretty spot-on flavour-wise and lack the horrifying chemical aftertaste so many vegan chorizo imitators seem to have.

The texture, while not perfect, also sits a cut above most imitators. Add that to the mix of jalapeno and peppadew peppers, and you have a criminally delicious, sweet, spicy pizza.

 

Like the sound of the pizzas we talked about? You can order the whole Tree Beerd menu - along with 4 pint containers of local craft beer - on UberEats. If you looking for something meatier, head down to or order from Beerd.

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Patrick Bate

Patrick is a filmmaker with so much Bristol in his blood the white blood cells are graffiti'd. Educated at the Northern Film School in Leeds, he’s returned home to be a Videographer and Reviewer for 365Bristol and BARBI. When he’s not messing about with cameras, he enjoys playing guitar, spending far too much time on tabletop RPGs, and being an awful snob about cider. Have a look at his work here, or get in touch at patrickb@365bristol.com.