carbing mead

[barney]

Hi lads
Can I carb mead the same way as beer?
Either batch or with sugar drops in the bottle
I have aged it for a year and it is lovely stuff so want to finish it out as good as possible?

[johnrm]

Is mead carbed?

[johnrm]

Just googled, seems to be down to personal taste.
Yes, this should be possible in the same way as beer, what is your ABV? Your yeast might be knackered.

[barney]

Hi thanks for the response it's 12% and the yeast is probably knackered alright.
It was champagne yeast. But there is no activeity. In a while but it's so slow you cant be sure it on yeast since 25 Dec 2013.

[johnrm]

Simplest is to force carb.
Otherwise batch carb as normal seeing as you have already used champagne yeast.
Check the tolerance of the yeast first.

[barney]

Yes think I will batch carb thanks

[Will_D]

As always recommended:

Fill a 500 ml Lucozade bottle with the same mix then you can watch and feel it carb up or not!

[Bzfeale80]

iirc when i used champagne yeast in mead it finished at around .990 sg. you may need to use a little yeast with the priming sugar to get it carbed. wills idea with lucozade bottle is good too. what was your final gravity?

[johnrm]

What gravity did the batch end up at? What volume of mead are we talking here?
It would be worth carbing a single bottle per Wills suggestion rather than committing the entire batch.

[barney]

Hi
Gravity of 25 ltr is  118
Gravity of other 6 ltr is 110 they were both treated the same way
The 25 ltr tastes lovely the 6 is too strong it will be mixed I think with the big batch