Specialty Grains - Amounts

I've been brewing for more than a year. Most of that was extract with grains but my last two brews have been AG. I'd like to convert some old extract recipes to AG. I'm curious about the amount used in Extract vs. AG of the specialty grains. Towards the end of my extract brewing career, I migrated to only pale malt extract and used different crystal and other malts for color and taste.

Should I be using the same amounts, more, or less?

As always, thanks for the help.

Chris

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This will get you the grain amounts you need.

If you've been using just pale extract, your specialty grain amounts should carry over pretty accurately. I'm pretty sure pale extract is just 2 row and some cara-stan or very light crystal to add a little body.

Assuming you use LME, .75 lb is equal to 1 lb of grain so you can multiply your LME amount by 1.33 and that will get you into the ballpark for the 2 row you need.

Good luck with AG!