None of my meads are anywhere near ready for this, but here goes anyway...I have used campden/sorbate in all of my batches to keep fermentation from starting back up, but there are a couple that I may want to force carb at bottling when I get to that point. Not being a beer person, I know zip about what equipment to use for the process...can someone shoot me a link to where I can read up on the process as it pertains to mead?
How to force carb mead
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You said "force carb at bottling", so I'm not sure what you already have and don't have. You'll need a co2 tank, regulator, keg, and a place to keep it cold (as it's almost impossible to bottle a carbonated beverage at room temperature). If you have a kegerator already, bottling from the keg is quick and easy.
Force carbing mead (or bottling from the keg tap) should be no different than anything else (beer, soda, etc...). Check out the stickys at the top of the Bottling/Kegging section...
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Just recently force carb'ed a liter of very sweet mead just to try it out. Used "Carbonator Caps" with my normal beer kegging CO2 rig. Dead easy of course and tasty -- a bit like a sweet Champagne. The carbonation bite offset the sweetness a bit (which was good because it was WAY sweet).
