WHAT a faff.

I, recently, recommenced home brewing.
Up to now it has consisted of box containing a can of"stuff", a sachet of yeast and supply your own sugar.
An occasional addition was a packet of "Hop oil", bittering for the use of.
For a bit more you can get a box containing two cans and yeast - no sugar rqd.
THIS box looked like the last variety ... Until I opened it.
YOWL:-
1. A plastic bag of "stuff".
2. Brewing sugar.
3. It said "American Oak chips" now I KNOW they call "Crisps" "Chips": but surely there's NO excuse for calling sawdust "Oak Chips", whatever their nationality.
4. A sachet of yeast.
5. "Priming Sugar"
The instructions alone are a bit of a "War & Peace". Including Bottling &/or Barreling runs to 14 steps.
A further bit of nit-picking runs thus:-
The box says it's "American Oaked Rum Ale". In view of the sawdust I found and nary a trace of Rum surely it would be more accurate to call it "Rummed Oak Ale"

"Or a Meringue"?

The Brewing sugar, when tasted, was more akin to Glucose or Fructose than the culinary sugar we're all used to. Just tasted, prematurely, the "Priming Sugar" which also tasted like Glucose or Fructose.
DUH?!?