I don't know about that. I read that discussion and about the emails that went back and forth. Sounds questionable to me and there is a lot left up in the air if that conversation indeed actually happened. I had a similar conversation with Jamie from Ninkasi, but the information he gave about Tricerahops actually made sense, and I have the email to prove it. Not trying to be a jerk, just wanting to do the real beer justice in both practical truth and respect for the original brewer.
Other than a drier 1.009 FG, which I doubt the homebrewer achieved since it projects finishing at 1.017, I don't see that one producing better or more accurate results. Besides, Alpine's website says it begins at 1.065, so with 7.1% abv, that means it must finish at 1.012. With no sugar used, I project a low mash temp (certainly lower than 153).
The above version seems like a hack recipe with 4 oz. of 6-row in a 9 gallon batch, and three types of 2-rows. Nelson is also not that pale at 4 SRM. The dryhop amount is insane and the IBUs are about 30 lower than the real beer. It makes more sense that big multistage dryhop was done in shorter, chunked time frames. My dryhop is based on 0.9 oz. dryhops per gallon of beer. As a point of reference, Pliny the Younger is based on 1.0 oz. dryhop per gallon of beer. The Golden Rye NZ Hopped version you posted above is based on a 2.0 oz. dryhop per gallon of beer!! Sounds like the euphoric high of having an uber-hopped beer was what created the wow factor to me. In closing, I can see a lot of stuff that's probably dead wrong for the real clone, most noticably the boil off rate is +.4 liters, so he's topping off. A big no-no.