Indistinct 2011 collaboration between Stone, Japanese brewer Baird, and Guam brewmaster Toshi Ishii promotes Tsunami relief but lacks firm theme. Heavy yeast sediment clouds amber-hazed dry body. Advertised green tea influence lost between bitterly lemon-seeded Aramis hop dryness and honeyed ginger sweetness, recalling earthen herbal crisping and tea-leafed bittering of an English ESB by forgoing expectant citric-fruited tenacity of typical American IPA. Tertiary pineapple, grapefruit, and peach illusions merely warble across dark-spiced nicety. Not bad, but inessential.

Revised ‘farmhouse’ version of fruit-juiced India Pale Ale receives light Belgian-styled wild yeast influence, allowing more pronounced resinous bark-dried wood chipping and livelier piney hop bittering to counter tangy mango, tangerine, grapefruit and peach tropicalia.

Enjoyable wheat-wined IPA proffers lemony peach, pineapple, kiwi and papaya brightness to contrast ascending woody hop-roasted bittering. Wafting floral respite grazes juicy-fruited zest.  Creamy caramel malting further sweetens honeyed wheat back end.

Admirable amber-golden dry body with billowy beige head and herbaceous farmhouse waft picks up sharp floral-hopped grapefruit peel bittering atop apricot, apple and orange tang. Soft crystal malt creaming fluffs citric nuances, but rough alcohol burn and arid wood parching beckon.

On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, wood-lacquered English-styled India Pale Ale (known as Hop Project #2) retains tart grapefruit-peeled acridity, earthen bark-dried desiccation, and strong alcohol burn. Milled oats graze alcohol-burnt yellow fruiting and tobacco-leafed dark floral nuance. Minor beechwood smoking detected in far distance.

Blasé amber-hazed moderation with softer piney hop bittering and less prominent grapefruit influence than Zeus and Simcoe hop-based variety. Unobtrusive grapefruit-tangerine fruiting, indecisive evergreen freshness, perfunctory spicing and indistinct floral nuances bring down insubstantial dry body.

Strongest, but not best, of deconstructed Latitude 48 India Pale Ale series, lacks specificity. Passable coppery-glowed medium body brings prominent grapefruit pith tartness and resinous piney hop bittering to muted honey-sugared apple-peach tang. Dried floral, wet leaf and lemon pepper illusions scarcely scoot through blanched yellow-fruited alacrity.

Interesting limited edition (circa 2011) hybrid ale with copper-paled hue crosscuts ripe India Pale Ale fruiting with spicy Belgian Ale yeast funk. Lemony grapefruit-peeled orange-dried bittering contrasts candi-sugared banana, peach, pineapple, cherry, apple, and blueberry scurry. A floral perfumed waft spreads across tropic fructose. Black-peppered hop bite stiffens backend. Ancillary coriander-clove nicety nearly lost.

Resinous pine-needled oaken wood dryness affixes grapefruit-peeled pineapple and orange tartness above sugar-spiced crystal malting. Bitter blueberry-juniper conflux overtakes black-peppered oregano-basil-thyme triage at herb-encrusted citric finish.

Nebulous coppery amber medium-bodied India Pale Ale with ineffectual English hop variety falls short. Closer to a British pub ale, gathering dank black tea mustiness, cellar-bound mushroom-like yeast fungi, and citric-rotted apricot desiccation. Murky crystal-caramel malting beat down by everlasting alcohol-burnt bittering to dirty earthen wood spine.

Easygoing copper-hazed fleshy-headed East Coast moderation perhaps stylistically closer to a mild English-styled IPA, or better yet, a toasted lager. Roasted caramel malting takes the reins, leaving expectant pine-fruited dry-hop prickle to tend softer backend. Cereal-grained marzipan, almond, and buttered pecan graze dewy earthen peat, lemony orange-grapefruit sass, and minor alcohol burn.

Sumptuously mellow caramel-malted crystal-sugared delight draping soft peach, grapefruit, and orange tang across mild juniper bittering of limited edition small-batch offering (served at Jersey-based Andy’s Corner Bar). Red, green and purple grape nuances filter through neutral celery wisp.