It sounds like 14% or less is the winner.
I have been making allot of beer lately and am planning on switching to mead as soon as it is too warm to brew beer.
The first batch will be sparkling mead in beer bottles. after that i will be making 2 still meads. One sweet and one dry. I've been having people save me wine bottles to bottle them allready.
If all goes as planned I will have at least 3 types of mead to drink next summer.