I fixed up my first mead on 7/25/07. I used 12 lbs of wildflower honey, yeast nutrient, and champagne yeast. Then after three days of active fermentation I "fed it" 2 lbs of orange blossom honey. I racked it to a glass carboy Sunday 8/5/07 and set it in my brew/linen closet at the end of the hall to hang out. I am now noticing that the top of the mead forms groups of gunk in several areas that is the same color as the yeast trub that I saw in the bottom of the bucket when I racked it over. I really don't think this is mold or an infection since it looks more bubbly than fuzzy, the mead has always been fermenting very actively after day one and it kept on going hard after the racking. This stuff forms quickly, I shook it a bit last night to clear it off and it was right back there when I came home from work today. There is also no collection of gunk on the glass like I have seen with other infected batch pictures, this stuff shows up right in the middle of the carboy, not on the sides. You can see lots of tiny bubbles coming up all over the carboy like fizzy champagne, so I thought it might be carrying some of the yeast up to the top with it. When I tasted the small sample that was left in the tube after racking it was still rather sweet and very alcohol hot in taste so I know there is much more to ferment out in there but think that it has produced enough alcohol to protect it as long as I am sanitary in racking. Anyone else ever see this kind of thing with their mead fermentations?