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To me, it looks like your mead foamed up a bit during vigorous fermentation while you weren't looking, then settled back down again leaving a trail on the bottle. I had similar...whatever you call it... on the mead carboy of my MAOM and that turned out just fine *hiccup*. It does not look like...

I wanted to come back and note that I bottled my batch today. It tasted amazing! I let mine sit 2 months, but honestly a tasting at 4 weeks was pretty good. I am happy with my substitution of a grapefruit and an orange instead of three oranges (3 gallon batch).

Good luck! I'm curious how yours turns out so please do come back and update!

Interesting. I have 5 gallons of mead that is going to end up pretty dry and strong also. If you do this, do please come back and let us know how it went. I might do the same.

All sounds good but I'd also recommend potassium carbonate. See Hightest's faq's on potassium carbonate addition (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f30/sticky-mead-making-faqs-83030/). I think he recommends 1 gram per gallon right at the start. Helps lower acidity so your yeast won't get stuck, and...

Started 3 gallons yesterday, with a few modifications. The benefit of homebrewing is modifying awesome recipes and hoping for improvement. I used a grapefruit and an orange because I love grapefruit. I removed all the pith but still threw the fruit in. I still used some raisins from the...

So how's the new batch going!

Welcome aboard! I've already seen one of your other helpful posts about small batches and I'm sure you'll have some great contributions with your experience on that.

I see you've already been reassured, but if you are still wondering if you have any problems with infection, check out this thread and you will feel much better: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/post-your-infection-71400/ That thread gives me the heebeejeebies.

Nice idea!

Cool, thanks for coming back to let us know. Did you bottle (and if so how long did it sit in bottle?) or what have you done with it since you last posted?

I haven't used that recipe but that site seems to suggest 1 box of raisins. It doesn't say how big of a box but look at the pic and you get an idea. Also I didn't notice before how many cloves you used. Ouch. That's gonna hurt. Do you really like clove? Like 2ndGenBrewer said, maybe you could...

To convert any size to another size: Divide by the amount of the original recipe, in this case, 5 for the 5 gallons Multiply by the amount that you want to make. In this case, 1.2 gallons. Do this conversion for each ingredient. I think the yeast amount usually stays the same.

Could you clarify what kind of yeast you used? Is this one gallon of mead? You might need some sort of yeast nutrient. I've heard of people throwing raisins into batches similar to yours for yeast nutrition (unless you happen to have yeast nutrient on-hand, which is probably not the case)...

Thanks you! I was definitely wondering about the fermentability of the mash ingredients, and their effect on my gravity readings, especially the oatmeal. I had no clue the maltodextrin was unfermentable. Oh, the "dark chocolate" was a burned-looking malt. It colored my beer almost black. Much...

I actually hope he did get a few good gulps before he died! He probably died a happy little fly. :drunk:

Thanks, makes sense. I went ahead and tested my hydrometer, since I am having some problems with strange high gravity readings on my oatmeal stout too. Alas I measured 1.000 in 59F degree water at the top of the meniscus. So it seems to be working.

Wow congrats! That's awesome.

Revvy, thanks for your response. You make a lot of sense :D I took my OG reading after I aerated with a large wire whisk for a few minutes. I just threw my hydrometer into my fermentation bucket and let it sit for a minute so I could take it's temp at the same time as my hydrometer reading. So...

I just checked it again. My hydrometer is a combo thermometer/hydrometer. It measured right at 1.000 at the top of the meniscus and the temperature of my tap water today was 59F degrees. I wanted to believe the hydrometer was bad. Thanks though!