Tettnanger,
I wanted to know a bit more about Terrnanger, a noble German hops. It is known as one of the four noble hop varieties, and adds floral, herbal, and spice characteristics to beer. https://brulosophy.com/2023/06/16/the-hop-chronicles-tettnanger-2022-pale-lager/
Earlier recipes are generally found within medical texts.
This sentence intrigued me - I think it highlights the historical relationship between food and medicine/health and how they are often interconnected, and had me wondering about how much people knew about diet related to health in ancient societies. I find myself asking questions like 'What was used for healing?' 'What was used for preventing illness?'
Outram (2008, p.2) raises the argument that experimental archaeology does not actually recreate any aspect of the past, as we do not actually know what the past was like and so aspects of any experiment are purely hypothetical.
I agree with this and am thinking about experimental archaeology in terms of recipes and their recreation. Each and every recipe, even if recorded, won't be the same twice. Even if a recipe is written down with exact measurements and instructions, differences such as quality of ingredients, environmental factors, tools used etc. will always make for subtle variations in the end product.