157-159 St Michaels Hill, Cotham, Bristol BS2 8DB
http://www.beerdbristol.com
We have been making our way round the Bath Ales pubs recently as we have a discount card which is proving to be a fantastic deal for food and drink. Beerd is part of the Bath Ales collective and is a craft beer and pizza joint in High Kingsdown. We went on a Friday night and when we arrived it was rammed but in a good way. It felt lively, filled with a loud hubbub of conversation and plenty of specialty beer flowing. The clientele seemed to be a mix of the more intelligent, ale-supping students who are probably part of jugglesoc and older people who prefer a local night in High Kingsdown to the chaos of town.
We made our way to the bar where I selected a blonde Belgium beer called Steen Brugge. It instantly transported me back to our short break in Brugge last year, when we frequently ended up in a basement bar just off the main square selecting which beers to try based on the accompanying glass.
I decided to try and find a seat and by some miracle a table opened up at that precise moment. The tables around us were mainly quite large groups sampling the pizza and it looked amazing. One of the staff noticed we'd taken a seat and he asked if we were after pizza and so we waited for him to return to take our order. It was a good ten minutes before he returned but the place was so buoyant that it simply didn't matter. The chatter was infectious. We selected our pizza; salami and roasted chilli and the cauliflower, blue cheese and chorizo pizza. I asked to swap the blue cheese for goats cheese which was no bother. We were warned that there was quite a wait for the pizza so we ordered some garlic bread to tide us over.
The garlic bread arrived pretty quickly and it was wonderful. Small strips of freshly baked dough lightly brushed with garlic butter. I think it took around 3 minutes to devour the lot.
As we knew we had a bit of a wait, we got another beer in but the pizza arrived before the beer! Result.
The pizza looked and smelled incredible. Thin base, generous coating of tomato sauce, lightly topped with perfectly non-greasy cheesy goodness. The toppings we had chosen were marvelous, the best one being the cauliflower, goats cheese and chorizo. The cauliflower went perfectly with the goats cheese and the chorizo balanced the creaminess with a spicy meaty kick.
It ended up being the perfect venue to kick off a night out. You couldn't help but get motivated to go out and the food set you up perfectly. We are already planning to return with friends, and with the discount, the incentive to return is even greater.
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