Can someone teach me Recipe Conversion

[Two Dog's Brewing]

Ok Guys I have these two extract recipes that everyone wants me to make now. I am AG now so can someone show me the steps to convert from extract to AG. I dont just want the converted recipe but how you achive the final results thanks guys.

Here are the recipes.

Amber Ale #2
Brew Type: Extract Date: 4/11/2007
Style: American Amber Ale Brewer: Tony Ey
Batch Size: 5.00 gal Assistant Brewer:
Boil Volume: 5.72 gal Boil Time: 60 min
-- Prepare 5.72 gal water for brewing
--
Steep Specialty Grains
Amount Item Type
8.0 oz Carastan 30/37 (35.0 SRM) Grain
4.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt -200L (200.0 SRM) Grain
-- Add water to achieve boil volume of 5.72 gal
-- Estimated Pre-boil Gravity is: 1.048 SG with all grains/extracts added
Boil for 60
min
Start to Boil
Amount Item Type
7 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract
0.50 oz Nugget [13.00%] (60 min) Hops
59 min into
boil
Add 0.50 oz Cascade [5.50%] (1 min)
59 min into
boil
Add 0.50 oz Williamette [5.50%] (1 min)
-- Cool wort to fermentation temperature
-- Add water (as needed) to achieve volume of 5.00 gal
-- Siphon wort to primary fermenter and aerate wort.
--
Add Ingredients to Fermenter
Amount Item Type
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001) Yeast-Ale
4/11/2007 Measure Original Gravity: ________ (Estimate: 1.055 SG)
4/11/2007 Measure Batch Volume: ________ (Estimate: 5.00 gal)
13 days Ferment in primary for 13 days at 72.0 F
4/24/2007 Transfer to Secondary Fermenter
14 days Ferment in secondary for 14 days at 72.0 F




Morgan's Midnight Porter
Taste Rating (50 possible points): 35.0
Brew Type: Extract Date: 11/13/2006
Style: Robust Porter Brewer:
Batch Size: 5.00 gal Assistant Brewer:
Boil Volume: 5.72 gal Boil Time: 60 min
Brewing Steps
Check Time Step
11/13/2006 Clean and prepare equipment.
-- Measure ingredients, crush grains.
-- Prepare 5.72 gal water for brewing
--
Steep Specialty Grains
Amount Item Type
12.1 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain
8.1 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain
-- Add water to achieve boil volume of 5.72 gal
-- Estimated Pre-boil Gravity is: 1.052 SG with all grains/extracts added
Boil for 60
min
Start to Boil
Amount Item Type
4 lbs 0.5 oz Dark Liquid Extract (17.5 SRM) Extract
4 lbs 0.5 oz Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract
0.50 oz Columbus (Tomahawk) [14.00%] (60 min) Hops
30 min into
boil
Add 0.50 oz Williamette [5.50%] (30 min)
55 min into
boil
Add 0.50 oz Williamette [5.50%] (5 min)
-- Cool wort to fermentation temperature
-- Add water (as needed) to achieve volume of 5.00 gal
-- Siphon wort to primary fermenter and aerate wort.
--
Add Ingredients to Fermenter
Amount Item Type
1 Pkgs Irish Ale (White Labs #WLP004) Yeast-Ale
11/13/2006 Measure Original Gravity: ________ (Estimate: 1.059 SG)
11/13/2006 Measure Batch Volume: ________ (Estimate: 5.00 gal)
4 days Ferment in primary for 4 days at 68.0 F
11/17/2006 Transfer to Secondary Fermenter
7 days Ferment in secondary for 7 days at 68.0 F
11/24/2006 Measure Final Gravity: ________ (Estimate: 1.016 SG)
-- Bottle beer at 60.0 F with 3.8 oz of corn sugar.
4.0 Weeks Age for 4.0 Weeks at 52.0 F

 

[Beerrific]

For the Amber, use domestic 2-row for the base malt, put it into a computer program and adjust the amount to give you the right OG (probably around 9.5lbs.)

For the porter I would go with British Pale malt (maris otter might be nice). Same as above. You might need to add other specialty malts to get the same color/flavor you would get from the dark extract. Others familiar with porters can help with that.

OK, so that is basically the process...use just a 2-row malt for the extract and mash the grains that you were steeping. Shouldn't require much more if you were using light extract.

 

[Bearcat Brewmeister]

On the porter, maybe 4 to 8 ounces of Black Patent to make up for the loss of the dark extract, depending on how you feel about roast flavor, and enough Maris Otter to make up for the volume of both LMEs, about 10 pounds.

 

[the_Roqk]

This might help. http://www.allaboutbeer.com/homebrew/extract.html