RubberToe wrote:I've used the Bohemian Lager before and it lagged for a good 3 - 4 days before activity. However I attribute that to bad storage of the yeast packets.
This is part of what I was alluding to in the Group Buy thread: the common complaint about the MJ yeasts is the lag time. This has led some to speculate that there's not 200 billion cells in an 10g packet or that the viability of MJ yeast is more susceptible to storage/time issues. They are in Australia/New Zealand and there could be issues getting it to North America in a well-stored fashion.
Having a brick of it would mean being able to easily adjust the pitch (e.g., 125% or 150% of a 10g packet) and potentially mitigating this issue.
I do know that it's gotten pretty hard to get MJ yeasts in Canada with
Canada Homebrew Supplies being the only major retailer still listing them (Noble Grape had them, but apparently stopped last year, although I didn't think to ask why). So I suspect there's very little chance we'll be able to get them from NCM.
I just saw them in bulk on the list in the group buy and was surprised at how many additional dry yeasts they have available in 500 g packages. Wondering whether they are truly additions, or just repackagings of strains that are already available from Fermentis and Lallemand? For example, the characteristics of their West Coast Ale sounds a lot like S-05 and their British Ale Yeast sounds similar to S-04. 
