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Originally Posted by issack
you can have a carbonated mead by simply bottling it at a 1.020 gravity.
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Well, you can also have a bottle bomb by simply bottling at a 1.020. That's really not a good way to have dependable carbonation.
You can use maple syrup if you'd like- I don't know the measurements for that, so someone else can chime in on that.
Once the mead is done fermenting, you can also simply add 1 ounce of priming sugar per gallon of mead to give you a carbonation level similar to beer. Make sure you use either champagne bottles, or beer bottles, because wine bottles aren't designed to hold pressure. Plastic soda bottles work, too, if you'd like to use those.