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Sediment on Side of Fermenter?

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PDonn63

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Yesterday, I made a few one gallon batches. In the one, I used three gallons of wildflower honey, two cinnamon sticks, two vanilla beans, and mint from the garden. Unlike my other batches yesterday, the only thing that got heated was the mint (I brought it to a boil in one cup of water then added the entire contents of the pot to the must). About 17 hours after pitching the yeast, there is good fermentation, but there is a layer of sediment sticking to the side of the fermenter above the water level. I assume that this is just the yeast, but I wanted to make sure it wasn't anything bad, seeing as nothing was heated besides the mint. Also, if it is the yeast, do I need to find a way to get that sediment back down into the liquid?

I tried to upload a picture of it, but I kept getting a message saying I was over the max file size, even though I was well below it. I couldn't even upload a word doc. with just one letter typed in it because of its "size." I could always send it in an email if anybody needs it. Any-who, any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
It is not uncommon to have a ring of stuff above the line of the liquid where the foam had reached a higher level. Sometimes as you continue to swirl the mead for aeration or de-gassing, some of that material will be washed off back into the mead where it will settle out. What remains stuck on the glass can be ignored. You just clean it out after you've transferred the mead to another container.
 
When I do Joe's Ancient Orange variations in my large glass jars, I almost always get funny designs up the sides above the waterline, I swirl it around until they're gone and then I find they've come back again by the next day... Every now and then I do a batch that doesn't do this, but the vast majority do leave a ring of scunge just above the waterline...
 
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