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Spoke to the Matilda Bay dudes at the Expo on Friday. Cascade and Amarillo in Matilda Bay Alpha...that's all.
Interesting. The CUB bean counters must have either changed the recipe or your 'Matilda Bay dudes' or are only telling you part of the story by saying there's only two hops. Previous discussions here do confirm large amounts of dry hopping of US cascade and Amarillo so that is correct, (and this is confirmed by some of my mates who have attended the Dandenong brewery on a visit), but this ditty points to more stuff thrown in for bittering/flavour hopping.
From Brad Rogers (Original Alpha Ale Brewer via Thirsty Boy in 2007)
Received a reply from Brad.
Fairly helpful - but not quite the completely detail hopping regime that I never really expected to get.. but hoped for.
LOTS of cascade late in the boil. And also dry hopped towards the end of fermentation (secondary for HB purposes I imagine)
They have used but dont always use a "touch of Amarillo, not much though" dry hopped.
And somewhere in there there is Mt Hood and Centenial.
And he says it Fermented with 1056, slowly at around 16C
So thats a little more information to go on at least.
Thirsty
I guess as we've seen with other commercial beers (James Squire Golden Ale being one example) when hops are hard to source substitution and changes to the recipe do happen (ie. Amarillo in JSGA being substituted for other hops during shortages), so you may be right Adamski about the 2010 Alpha. But the 2007 one was quite a different beast.
Further discussions on Alpha's earlier recipe can be found here Alpha Pale Ale ( circa 2007)
Cheers Hopper