We have had their cans and a keg and cask in the past but right now we have something rather different on draft from Black Iris… it’s the luscious Lovelace 4.3%… a Lavender Grisette which is a refreshing, lowish alcohol beer with origins in the Hainaut province of Belgium. Grisettes are crisp, zingy medium/light-bodied, citrusy beers – brewed to be endlessly approachable and drinkable. And with the addition of 2kg of fresh Lavender into the boil, Lovelace is a real breath of summer!!

The beer is named after one of Nottinghamshire’s most influential and fascinating figures, Ada Lovelace, and celebrates her essential work alongside Charles Babbage with the Analytical Engine.

Ada was born in December 1815 and was the only legitimate child of Lord and Lady Byron. All of Byron’s other children were born out of wedlock. Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever four months later. He commemorated the parting in a poem that begins, “Is thy face like thy mother’s my fair child! ADA! the sole daughter of my house and heart?”