I listened to the Captain Lawrence X-tra gold show. I do understand all the intracacies that were being debated with yeast generation and pitching rates, but it certainly seems like the beer was possibly borderline on being cloned. In his recap Nathan admits to Mashing at a lower temp, not letting the ferment temp get as high as the brewer, and using different sugar than the brewer did. No-one called him out on any of these changes, but I remember a time or two when Tasty made a gut change to a recipe and he caught hell for it. Why the kid gloves on Nathan? I'm sure he is a skilled brewer, but he did apparently deviate from the brewers procedures. Not trying to be hyper critical, I enjoy the shows, just making an observation.
Also one comment on the sanitized foil over the airlock. During this highly active period of fermentation it is certainly unlikely that any bad guys are going to fall into the fermentor, but I read a post last year from a person using that method that had a fruit fly crawl in there and leave some lovely larvae behind in the fermentor. After reading about that I prefer to keep a carboy cap with blowoff tube, or airlock on my fermentor.