Last week, I talked about the relative ease, enjoyment, and benefits of making your own sodas.  I also shared the process of making a dandelion and burdock soda (a relative stranger to these shores, but an old friend to the English), a combination of many ingredients that yields a delicious, mildly sarsaparilla flavor with citrus-y [...]

As I’ve stated in the past, we at Curious Confections are “makers”.  We like creating many of the things we enjoy, using our own two hands, and possibly learning new things along the way.  It’s not always the quickest or simplest route, but more often than not the quality of our labors takes us by [...]

For the last time I’m back to continue the month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th.  In previous posts we performed the actual brewing, and then after allowing the beer to complete its primary fermentation we transferred to to a secondary fermentation vessel to clean up after itself [...]

Once more I’m back to continue the month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th.  In previous posts we performed the actual brewing, and then after allowing the beer to complete its primary fermentation we transferred to to a secondary fermentation vessel to clean up after itself and begin [...]

And I’m back, continuing the month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th.  This is also American Craft Beer Week, so get out there and support the small and independent craft brewers that are bringing tradition, quality and passion back to an industry that got hijacked by gargantuan-batch manufacturers [...]

Last week I kicked off a month-long series on homebrewing in honor of National Homebrew Day which was May 7th, providing you some background information and the mile-high view of the process.  Over the next four weeks I’ll go into more information on the four “days” of brewing.  This week is the big mamma-jamma, the [...]

Gemma and I are makers.  We are driven to use our hands to create — from woodworking to crafts, from gardening to baking.  We also love nothing more than to share our creations with others, their delight bringing us as much joy as the process of making itself.  This is the spark from which Curious [...]