that looks nice, we have a lower frills version of the mesh chairs at the office which are comfortable enough except that they aren’t quite tall enough for me

We’ve outgrown two of these, shame they don’t make them in larger sizes.

Thanks for these suggestions, I will check them out. I’ve read both good and bad reviews about the various chairs at costco and ikea, they all seem fine to me when I sit in them but then I’ve had two $100~ chairs start to give out in 8-10 months and then be passively irritating for another year or so before becoming intolerable.

I’m working from home 8+ hours a day in a Lifeform chair that I can’t find the model number on the internet(looks kind of like a legacy 900 but different fabric and adjustment arm placement). My mom bought it in a shop in Austin probably 15+ years ago and gave it to me when she closed her office. It’s comfortable but extremely heavy and almost too adjustable, all of the moveable parts creak and don’t stay where they are set reliably.

Any suggestions on decent chairs? I’m in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.

Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I’ve seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That’s still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)

The joy of homebrewing has a section I think called “betterbrew” that is extract recipes plus specialty grains. That’s how I started except through the Austin homebrew mini-mash recipes. You basically steep some blend of grains like crystal and carawheat in a strainer bag for awhile and then add the base malt extract after you have removed them.

I’m not sure my beer has gotten any better since going to all grain but there are more opportunities to make mistakes. So I also think about going back.

You can view the whole recipes on the ahb website by finding the click here for instructions link, like this one:

https://austinhomebrew.com/products/ahs-fall-esb-8c-mini-mash-homebrew-ingredient-kit

I’ve tried some craft non-alcoholic beers and didn’t really like them. Too sweet, grainy in a weird way. It sounds hard to pull off removing the alcohol at a small scale anyway and it seems like a lot of work. I have never heard of the super low abv recipes in this thread, I’ll have to look closer.

I think kombucha is going to feel the most like brewing beer in the sense that it requires sanitation, boiling, waiting. If you don’t like it then probably a no go but my family is obsessed. I made it a few times but only thought it was better than store bought once, I’d like to get better at.it.

Hop water also sounds really good, I had hopped hard seltzer but the cheap alcohol in hard seltzer always tastes bad to me. Reminds me of making straight table sugar alcohol.

Craft sodas with homemade extracts would also be fun. Low sugar with steeped peach syrup and mint or strawberry basil. I have only tried root beer from extract and keg carbonated lemonade so far.