First Batch!

For my own personal records:

8.8.08: Brewed the first batch -- an IPA made from a True Brew Maestro kit.  Kept the oak chips out.  Didn't take the original gravity.

8.10.08: Checked the gravity and it was at 1.015.  Turns out (in hindsight) that I was too worried, and should have also removed more of the air bubbles in order to get a better reading.

8.15.08: Checked the gravity today -- 1.020.  Shooting for 1.015 before I bottle the beer and let it continue fermenting.  Tasted it -- despite the fact that it was flat and lacking the priming sugar it's going to get later on, it didn't taste all that bad.  I'm on track.