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Don't expect to taste any Douglas fir tips in the brew. No pomegranate or terpenes or sea salt either.

This year, the craft breweries of the greater San Francisco Bay Area are keeping its five collaboration beers classic: Each utilizes just malts, hops, yeast and water.

Every year, members of the Bay Area Brewers Guild — formerly the San Francisco Brewers Guild — band together to create one or more collaborative brewing projects as a show of camaraderie, innovation and knowledge sharing for the annual San Francisco Beer Week. Two years ago, five neighborhoods of San Francisco and the five territories of the Bay Area Brewers Guild — San Francisco proper, the East Bay, the South Bay, the North Bay and the Coast (Santa Cruz and Monterey) — each came up with one beer each for 10 total; last year, each region focused their efforts on one each, with every one meant to represent its region's terroir, utilizing fruits or other additional adjunct ingredients.

But for 2020, in a year where many brewers are pushing for drinkers' tastes to make the return to well-crafted lagers and simple, classic styles, there are no kooky ingredients to be found in any recipes. To boot, each is made premium, with small-batch craft malts from Admiral Maltings.

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San Francisco's beer, designed by Bartlett Hall and Laughing Monk and brewed at Speakeasy, pays homage to its OG style: the California Common. But unlike those made at Anchor, this beer, the "Common Dreams," utilizes New World hops like Motueka, Nelson and Strata.

North Bay Nexus, a pale ale created by Marin Brewing and Wolfhouse, and brewed at Sonoma Springs, is a simple, easy-drinking contemporary pale ale made with four types of malts (barley, wheat, oats and rye) and West Coast and German hops like Citra, Amarillo and Mandarina Bavaria.

To the south, Silicon Valley's brewers are embracing tech life with their "Cloud Based Compression IPA," brewed at Alpha Acid after its recipe was dreamt up by Clandestine Brewing and Freewheel. The beer uses Admiral's Clipper Oats malts (along with its two-row barley malts), plus popular tropical hops Strata and Galaxy.

The East Bay's beer, Rice Stratasphere, gets a little creative with its malt bill. Created by Original Pattern, Ghost Town and Shadow Puppet, and brewed at Drake's, the IPA gives its Strata, Citra and Denali hops the stage. The inclusion of rice in the malt bill (along with Admiral's pilsner malt) leans out the beer, giving it a dry-mouth feel.

And lastly, the brewers of Santa Cruz and Monterey brewed a particularly West Coast beer: the "Surf 'n Burps" double IPA. The beer, designed by Peter B.'s Brewpub and Hop Dogma, and brewed on Alvarado Street's main Salinas system, is a "bright, true-to-form" West Coast double IPA made with Admiral's lighter malts and brand new (and very hot) hop varietals Cashmere and Sabro.

All five beers will make their debut at the San Francisco Beer Week Opening Gala on Feb. 7 and be available during beer week, but will also notably be distributed to local stores during the 10-day event.

San Francisco Beer Week kicks off with the Beer Week Opening Gala in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2020 and runs through Feb. 16, 2020 with hundreds of events around the Bay Area. See more events and details here at the official SF Beer Week site.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor. Email: alyssa.pereira@sfgate.com | Twitter: @alyspereira

