Nginx Brotli header not added

Question

I'm pulling my hairs for days trying to serve brotli compressed files through my local nginx install.

My configuration :

MacOS 12.6, Homebrew, Laravel Valet for managing sites and ssl
default nginx install replaced with nginx-full homebrew formulae that allows recompiling nginx with modules -> installed with the brotli module
I have tried different nginx brotli configuration, like this one

I think I do not have to do this, but I still tried to add specific proxy configurations for the files I want served with brotli

location ~ [^/]\.data\.br(/|$) {
  add_header Content-Encoding br;
  default_type application/octet-stream;
}

location ~ [^/]\.js\.br(/|$) {
  add_header Content-Encoding br;
  default_type application/javascript;
}

In the end, the http response does not contain content-encoding:br

nginx shows the module is installed :

$ nginx -V 2>&1 | tr ' ' '\n' | egrep -i 'brotli'              
--add-module=/usr/local/share/brotli-nginx-module

When testing with curl it works for gzip but not for brotli :

HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx/1.23.1
date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:57:20 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by: PHP/8.1.10
access-control-allow-origin: *
content-encoding: gzip

HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx/1.23.1
date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:57:21 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-powered-by: PHP/8.1.10
access-control-allow-origin: *
HERE IT SHOULD BE "content-encoding: br" BUT IT'S NOT

Any idea is welcome, I don't understand what is going on... cheers.

Nginx Brotli header not added

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