Hello, LA

A beer called Hello, LA sounds like it's angling for a postcard rack. It's a West Coast IPA that happens to have won actual gold at the World Beer Cup, so the greeting checks out.

Style: West Coast IPA
Release Date: 2026-07-20
ABV: 6.8%
Highland Park Brewery (Los Angeles, CA)

A beer named after a city greeting is the kind of thing that could go either way. Sometimes it's just a friendly label. Sometimes there's an actual beer behind it.

Hello, LA is a 6.8% ABV West Coast IPA built on Mosaic and Citra, and it picked up Gold at the 2022 World Beer Cup in the International Pale Ale category, which is a fairly high bar for a beer with a postcard name. The can promises citrus zest, dank blueberry, and passion fruit, which is a wider range than most single-city greetings manage.

Part of Highland Park's Timbo Week can lineup, with leftovers landing on the webshop this Monday. A greeting this decorated is worth taking seriously.