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Suggestions for holiday beer
You can add more sugar or DME to boost alcohol.
DME is sold by the pound. You are thinking of LME that is sold in cans at 3.3 pound increments.
If you can't get a bigger pot right now due to budget reasons there is no reason to not use two pots. Do one with 1/3 of your extract and use that to process your hops. 60 minute boil. The second pot can be the rest of your extract and you'll only have to boil it for 20 minutes to sterilize it.
heed ricka and brewchez: either get a bigger pot, or split your wort. \
i would just go ahead and invest in a bigger pot. minimum 20 qt (4-gallon). the bigger the better, but they get expensive and unless you will be going all grain soon, that is an upgrade that can come later. but a 6 qt pot seems awfully small. heck, how do you made beef stew or chilli?
as brewchez pointed out, your are thinking of liquid malt extract (LME) when you mention the 3.3 lb cans. DME is usually sold in a ziplock-type bag (my LHBS sells 1, 3, and 5-lb bags). if you buy two cans of amber LME, i would just use it all, 5 lbs or 6.6 lbs...it's your beer! that's me, i am a hatchet man.
to boost ABV, you can use any fermentable sugar: corn sugar, table sugar, brown sugar, molasses, confectionary sugar, honey, maple syrup, fruit compote, etc. how much of each will cause what amount of boost can be figured out later.
i made up the recipe below as i wrote the post. i have no idea what that comes out to in approximate OG. sounds tasty enough though. you should brew it and tell me how it tastes.
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