Hobo Delicious

That's the name of my cider. It was the cheapest brew I've made so far. I bought 5 - 128 ounce jugs of pasteurized apple cider NOT from concentrate. I added 1/4 pound of brown sugar, 1/4 pound of honey, and 2 cups of corn sugar (it was laying around and I didn't have enough brown sugar). I threw in a couple clove stems, few too many dashes of cinnamon, and pitched Wyeast 3184 sweet mead yeast. After 3 days I felt like I wanted something darker and stronger, so I heated 2 more pounds of dark brown sugar, and a pound of honey in water, funneled into another carboy, and racked the cider on top of it. I had too much for the 5 gallon carboy! For some dumb reason I decided to bottle one bottle and I left it out on the deck in case it exploded. Little did I know that this cider was not even close to done and when I opened the bottle the next day it erupted like a volcano all over the deck. It's been three weeks now and the fermentation is just beginning to slow down. The sweet mead yeast seems to work a lot slower than ale yeast. It hasn't been racked since I added the brown sugar and there's barely any yeast at the bottom of the carboy. Probably because the apple cider was so filtered, being bought from the store.