Brewing yeast eats the sugar, and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide. You'll need two cans of lightly hopped, light-colored extract for your first batch. Freshops has 2 varieties from New Zealand. The Fall 1997 Hop Harvest is in. The bitterness balances the sweet flavor of the malt.
Hops are usually in the form of compressed pellets at most suppliers.
The amount of freshop flowers varies with the bitterness and type of beer you are brewing. We can suggest variety type and amounts for a particular beer you wish to brew. You should use two packages of ale yeast for your batch of beer. That's what you'll be brewing - a basic ale. This is used to prime your bottled beer, giving it carbonation.