First taste of the first home brew

We tried our first bottle of our first home brew tonight. Although it was recommended that we wait at least three weeks after bottling before drinking the beer, we wanted to ensure that it was ok before we bottle our second brew (the ginger beer) this weekend. It's hard to tell looking at an unopened bottle whether the beer has become carbonated, but upon hearing the hiss after popping the lid, I felt reassured. The beer was actually better than we expected. It's just a kit beer and it didn't taste all that promising when we tried it on bottling day. I thought for sure that Simon would be drinking the whole batch, but I didn't mind it. There's something I don't like in commercial beers, though I'm not quite sure what it is, that seems to be absent (or at least much less pronounced) in home brew. It's also promising that the beer is supposed to get better the longer we bottle condition it. Here's a photo of me with the first beer.