For semi-sweet mead, add 2.5 cups of honey. For sweet mead, add 2.75 cups of honey. And for extra sweet mead, add 3 cups of honey. Dissolve your honey in the tea, and let the mixture cool until room temperature. Pour your tea into your gallon jug once cooled.
Optionally, you can put your 5 gallons of mead into a keg. To bottle your mead, you will need tubing, a bottle filler, and an auto-siphon. If you already homebrew beer, then this step should be familiar. Turn on the siphon then fill each bottle through the filler.
A specific gravity between 0.998 and 1.004 means that your mead is ready to be bottled. Now, mead benefits greatly from aging. Some mead brewers will keep their mead in the secondary fermenter for about 7-8 months in a dark, cool place before bottling.
Make a quarter and a half cup of simple syrup using honey or sugar. Put the syrup into a clean, sanitized one-gallon glass jar and rack the mead into it. Give it a gentle swirl to mix the mead and the syrup. Do not shake, or you will aerate the mead.