I have been a homebrewer for quite a number of years now, and at this point I have gotten my process down pretty well. With not making many changes to my process, I have started making my own recipes. I have done many of the standard beers (IPAs, Stouts, Heffe’s, etc…) and have been very pleased with the results. Experimenting is something I have always enjoyed, and is something I look forward to whenever possible. With this beer, not only was it a new recipe, but it was also a different method than normal as I was doing a half sized batch. I did this using the brew in a bag (BIAB) method which I have never tried. It works well and is great for smaller batches.

My wife actually came up with the idea for this beer. She asked me me one day, “can you make a lavender brett beer?”. The idea intrigued me quite a bit so I set off on researching how to pull this off. I didn’t want to overpower with too much lavender, but I also wanted to make sure that it was a well balanced beer. What I came up with is the following recipe. It uses a lambic strain of Brett that adds just a bit of sourness without making it super mouth puckering. The lemondrop hops add a nice citrus note to the aroma and flavor, and the lavender is subtle but comes across in the flavor fairly well. I do plan to add a bit more lavender on my next batch though since the carbonation overpowered the flavor more than I had hoped.

Overall, this turned out to be an excellent beer that I will be making again!

Recipe