You have serious mental issues if you were offended by my posts. Why would I possibly have sour grapes about ECY? Did you actually read my posts?
All I did was point out that there those out there such as yourself there that rave about ECY and how great it is. Perhaps. The problem is that it is virtually impossible to get ahold of it to actually experience how great it is. One man operation? That might explain it, eh? Perhaps he might want to hire someone. Perhaps he likes putting out various strains when he feels like it and doesn't care about sales. Whatever.
The guy at ECY has obviously found a niche producing unique yeasts that are not being offered by the big boys. Someone will fill the void eventually - simple supply and demand.
Montanaandy,
I'm going to jump in here. I live ten minutes from Princeton Homebrew, where Al drops most of his stuff off. I haven't even got ahold of the stuff. I understand you're not familiar with them, but let me explain the backstory. I don't know him personally, but I respect what he's done as I'm a yeast rancher myself.
Al and his wife are control biologists. That's their job I believe. I think they got into homebrewing a while ago. He started making belgian cultures and gave them away on BBB, a belgian beer forum. They blew up, and was losing money giving them away, so he started selling them through the LHBS. Instead of renting a lab, sinking in thousands of dollars into packaging, and quitting his day job which I'm guessing is pretty darn stable, he makes small starters whenever he can as something to play around with.
As I understand, he does it for fun and maybe some beer money.
Please get informed before you start gossiping about an operation. I agree there isn't much information on them, but there's a Google group, and several YouTube interviews.