Response Fund.

“By allowing breweries to choose their preferred style and develop their own recipe, we hope this will make it as simple as possible for any interested brewery to participate,” said Brent Knapp, founder and CEO of Common Space, which kicked off the project with a $10,000 donation.

“It’s been really cool to see there are a lot of breweries that have jumped in to help pitch,” Barnett said. “You hate when things like the wildfires happen, but good to see the beer community come together and work so hard to make it positive.”

Participating breweries, including five from Japan, the Philippines and Australia, are offering beers they think best represent the expansive L.A. vibe. All are limited editions.

Firestone Walker’s homage, available at their Venice location, is a West Coast Pilsner, a lager beer, something light and easy drinking, perfect for better weather in the horizon, Barnett said.

Common Space’s offering is a hoppy Pilsner that is “SoCal-y light, just like L.A. knows how to do,” Knapp said.

Malibu Brewing Co., which closed down during the earliest days of the Palisades fire, is also participating, as is Inglewood’s Crown and Hops, whose co-owner has ties to Altadena.

Claremont Craft Ales’ contribution is a light West Coast India pale ale with “aromas of guava and berries with flavors of tropical fruits and candied orange,” according to the company’s website.

Aside from serving as a drop-off location for wildfire relief donations, Whittier Brewing Co. is also participating.

On Feb. 22, Weir Beer in Vista held a party for the initiative and an Altadena family that lost their home in the Eaton fire.

On Saturday, the We Love L.A. NoHo Pub Crawl will take place throughout the NoHo Arts District.

Other events celebrating the beer collaborations have benefited the American Red Cross, the Westchester Family YMCA, the Families Forward Learning Center in Pasadena, It’s Bigger Than Us and the Animal Wellness Foundation.

The campaign has raised more than $325,000 so far, according to Knapp, who added, “It further proves that the craft beer industry is here for each other, even in our most difficult times.”

Direct donations can be made to the United Way of Greater L.A. website, unitedwayla.org, with dedications made to We Love L.A. to be included in the campaign’s count.

Michael Chung of Hawthorne dropped by Common Space on Thursday and found out about the special distribution as well as another beer release to benefit local firefighters. He chose the We Love L.A. beer on tap to go with his burger lunch.

“It’s great we get another way to help, and good for people who like beer because you’re definitely not getting the same thing with each beer from different breweries,” he said.

Brewing beers for a cause is nothing new. In 2019, Russian River Brewing Co. in Sonoma County introduced its Sonoma Pride India Pale Lager after the brewery was forced to evacuate because of the Kincade fire nearby. Before that, more than 50 breweries worked to raise over $1.1 million for wildfire relief efforts in Sonoma and Napa counties, according to Russian River co-founder Vinnie Cilurzo.

In 2018, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. brewed their Resilience Butte County Proud IPA to raise funds for those impacted by the Camp fire. Maui Brewing Co. and hundreds of other breweries around the country joined in the international Kokua Project, which raised $1.5 million for 2023’s Maui wildfire victims.