A showcase of a working counter
This website is a guide to the confectionery we make in Dubuque and to the heritage candy craft behind it. It presents collection lots, flavor dossiers, batch specifications and gift suitability notes so that a gift buyer can make a confident choice. Reading the showcase and writing to our counter is how a conversation begins; the terms below govern that reading, not a transaction.
Collection lot descriptions
Every lot card carries the flavor notes, texture profile, batch size and pairing ideas recorded in our batch ledger at the time of the kettle run. We write those lines honestly and we keep them current, but small-batch candy is agricultural at heart: a harvest, a vanilla crop or a barrel's resting time can shift a note by a degree or two.
- Flavor and texture descriptions are the puller's record, not a laboratory certificate.
- Batch sizes are typical working volumes and can move with the season.
- Gift suitability notes are suggestions drawn from years of counter conversation.
- Illustrations are hand-drawn views of our craft rather than photographs of a specific tin.
Permitted use of this showcase
You are welcome to read the showcase, print a lot card for your own gift planning, and quote a short passage with attribution to Hollis & Fenn. What we ask you not to do is lift the whole ledger for a competing catalog, present our craft notes as your own, or use the site in any way that misrepresents the candy we make.
Links to our pages are welcome from gift guides, historical societies and food writers. We ask only that the link is described accurately and that our batch lines are not edited into claims we did not make.
Names, labels and batch codes
Hollis & Fenn, the kettle crest, the flavor house names and the lot numbering system are ours. Batch codes such as Lot 048-C appear on tins, batch cards and this site as a record of a specific kettle run. Please do not reproduce them on goods that did not come from our counter.
Limits of the ledger
The showcase is provided as a reading resource about handmade confections. It does not create a supply agreement, a reservation of a batch, or a promise that a specific lot will be pulled again. Conversations about a gift, a milestone tin or a tasting box begin when you write to the counter, and nothing on this site should be read as a completed arrangement.
Ingredients, allergens and craft advice
Ingredient bases and allergen information are set out in our ingredient and craft notes. Anyone packing a gift for a household with dietary restrictions should read those notes before choosing a lot. Nothing on this site is dietary or health advice.
Privacy
How visitor details and flavor-matching preferences are handled is described in the visitor privacy ledger, which forms part of these house conditions.
Correspondence and changes
Notices about these conditions may be sent to hollisandfenncandy@gmail.com or posted to Hollis & Fenn, 118 Bluff Street, Dubuque, Iowa 52001. When we revise the conditions we rewrite this page and move the date at the top, exactly as we do with a batch card.
These conditions are read under the laws of the State of Iowa, without regard to conflict of law rules, and any dispute concerning them belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in Dubuque County.