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Autodidact Beer is a brewery and taproom in Morris Plains NJ with a focus on meticulously crafted ales and lagers in a warm and relaxed setting.

Since 2023 we have explored our passion for innovative and interesting beers while pushing ourselves to go further, create more, and bring more people along.

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FRESH BEER RELEASES

We release new beers almost every week. They come and go quickly. Check out some of the latest releases below, and make sure to sign up for our beer release alerts so you never miss a fresh drop!

Dream Debris - New England IPA - Beer Release

DREAM DEBRIS 7.1% New England IPA Revisiting a grist familiar to some of our core receipts to lay perfect soft foundation upon which we layer some of our favorite hop lots we've come across recently. Hopped with Nelson, New Zealand Cascade, Waimea, and Waimea Hop Kief. Notes of white wine grapes, fresh lime zest, cannabinoid resins, and pink grapefruits. Available FRIDAY 10/23/26 at on tap and in 4-packs.

Oct 23

Ed's Wings - Melesa's Wings Collaboration - Double IPA - Beer Release

ED'S WINGS collaboration with Melesa's Wings 8.4% Double IPA Our favorite IPA grist, heavy on the oats, laid a plush foundation for a handful of Nelson hops. Egger's Nelson, Garston Nelson, and Clayton Nelson Amplifire bring forth everything we know and love about Nelson. White wine grapes, pungent cannabis, and fresh slices of passionfruit Available FRIDAY 10/23/26 at on tap and in 4-packs.

Oct 22

Gravity Chasm - Azvex Collaboration - Double IPA - Beer Release

GRAVITY CHASM collaboration with Azvex Brewing 8.6% Double IPA A pillowy grist combining the best elements from both breweries laid present underneath layers of hops. Egger's Nelson, Garston Motueka, Galaxy, and Clayton Motueka Amplifire deliver a wave of ripe grapefruit, starfruit candies, and freshly zested lime. Available FRIDAY 10/16/26 at on tap and in 4-packs.

Oct 15

UPCOMING EVENTS

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

3:00 PM

DnA : Wandering Artist Series

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

6:00 PM

Crobot + Dark Chapel + The Crooked Skulls: Ticketed Event

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

3:00 PM

Luke Mattessich + Tommy Hyde (The Living Dogs) : Wandering Artist Series

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

7:00 PM

Mythology + Captain Chameleon : Wandering Artist Series

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

7:00 PM

The 65s + None Shall Sleep : Wandering Artist Series

5:00 PM

VINYL NIGHT

7:00 PM

TRIVIA NIGHT

3:00 PM

The Snark Twins : Wandering Artist Series

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HOLY MOONLIGHT
SECOND SEQUENCE
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Our unconscious minds drift through tessellated thoughts with a level of clarity that is often missing from our waking hours. Distilled by a hushed reality, we seek to use the tranquility of dreams to reconnect our neural pathways and wake with a new perspective.

We have a few years of experimentation behind us at this point, but ever curious, we always seek to challenge our expectations and find new discoveries on paths we may have walked before.

DREAM DEBRIS
7.1% New England IPA
Revisiting a grist familiar to some of our core recipes to create the perfect soft foundation upon which we layer some of our favorite hop lots we’ve come across recently. Hopped with Nelson, New Zealand Cascade, Waimea, and Waimea Hop Kief. Notes of white wine grapes, fresh lime zest, cannabinoid resins, and pink grapefruits.

Available FRIDAY 10/23/26 at on tap and in 4-packs.

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Every year we join with @melesaswings to honor someone who we lost too soon. This year, we are deeply honored to celebrate the life of Ed, someone important to our Jess, and to his friends and family.

Day-to-day, we tend to be swept up in our often chaotic shared human experience. It is increasingly rare that we are presented with the chance to stop, center ourselves, and refocus on who, and what are most important in our lives. Each year, the Melesa’s Wings project reminds us to do just that. We hope it does for you too.

Thank you to Jess, and thank you to Ed’s family, for giving us the opportunity to pay respects to Ed, and his life, in the best way we know how...

“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.” - John Cassian

ED’S WINGS
collaboration with Melesa’s Wings
8.4% Double IPA
Our favorite IPA grist, heavy on the oats, laid a plush foundation for a handful of Nelson hops. Egger’s Nelson, Garston Nelson, and Clayton Nelson Amplifire bring forth everything we know and love about Nelson. White wine grapes, pungent cannabis, and fresh passionfruit.

Available Friday 10/23/26 on tap and in cans

#hellowanderer

To be able to collapse physical space and connect over great distances has been one of the most surprising and welcomed surprises we’ve experienced on our journey so far. Whether it be encountering people who have traveled from far away to visit us, or being fortunate enough to be able work with brewers who reside across oceans.

Our friends at @azvexbrewing said they would be in town, and we knew right away we had to seize the moment to create something...

GRAVITY CHASM
collaboration with Azvex Brewing
8.6% Double IPA
A pillowy grist combining the best elements from both breweries laid present underneath layers of hops. Egger’s Nelson, Garston Motueka, Galaxy, and Clayton Motueka Amplifire deliver a wave of ripe grapefruit, starfruit candies, and freshly zested lime.

Available TODAY at noon on tap and in cans

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Wandering is core to our ethos here. It’s been said before and bears repeating, that we share great reverence for brewers who truly let their passion guide their steps and quite literally go where their minds drift. Stjepan is just that. A storied past throughout the industry, and ultimately heading out on his own. His nomad project, @culturalwastelandnyc , immediately caught our eye.

When chance would have our paths cross, we spoke of passion for ingredients we rarely revisit. Nostalgic influences from our past like crystalized stone that form the tempered foundations deep below our feet. Perhaps we should turn to them again? Maybe a small spark could ignite a new fire...

CITIES OF QUARTZ
collaboration with Cultural Wasteland
7.1% New England IPA
A grist honed to bring focus to Rye, and hopped with some of our favorites, both old and new. Cascade, Simcoe, Krush Lupocore, and New Zealand Cascade. Notes of fresh pine needles, bright citrus, fresh raspberry jam, and a touch of rye spice.

Available FRIDAY 10/16/26 at on tap and in 4-packs.

The most engaging part of a collaboration for us has always been being able to share ideas with other brewers who we love and respect. Our tradition of brewing Engel every year brings us joy in so many ways, and for that we will always return to it, but it lacks one thing that has been core to our ethos since the beginning: wandering.

This year, and perhaps as a new tradition going forward, we thought it would be fun to bring some friends along for the ride. We asked our friends at @requiembier and @wildfernbrewing to join us, and gave them a simple idea: how should we iterate on Engel? Naturally each brewery had their own approach to the Marzen style, offering a unique opportunity to bring them all together. The results are a markedly different beer from Engel, each bringing their own story to the table, coming together this year only for our Oktoberfest celebration.

SONNE
collaboration with Requiem and Wild Fern
5.4% Oktoberfest Marzen Lager
A expanded grist of traditional german malts on a base of floor malted bohemian pilsner, and hopped lightly with a special crop of Callista hops. Notes of the rich malty sweetness we have come to expect from an Oktoberfest Marzen, with a present but balanced hop bitterness to cleanse the palate and tempt with another sip.

Available SATURDAY 10/3/26 at OKTOBERFEST on tap and in 4-packs. Quantities limited!

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On the heels of a release where we questioned a few style guidelines, it’s nice to remind ourselves that history and tradition have a place in our world. Oktoberfest Marzens originated in the 16th century, when the Duke of Bavaria banned brewing beer from April to September every year. The result was a tremendous amount of beer brewed and stowed away in March, so that it could be drank throughout the summer. By the time autumn rolled around, the remaining beers in cellars were drank in a celebration to make space for breweries to begin operations again.

Engel is our attempt to honor that tradition. Available only once per year until it’s gone. It’s a reminder to us that almost every strange tradition comes from the strangest origins.

ENGEL
5.4% Oktoberfest Marzen Lager
A straightforward grist of pale malt and traditional german malts and hopped throughout the boil with Perle hops. Notes of rich caramel, warm toasted bread, and subtle hop fruitiness.

Available SATURDAY 10/3/26 at OKTOBERFEST on tap and in 4-packs. Quantities limited!

#hellowanderer

If one thing can be said about Autodidact, it’s that we do not limit ourselves to the metric of tradition. To brew a beer is to create something. What that thing is, is up to the universe to define. While we may make pitstops along the way to pay homage to clear definitions of style, we never let those definitions become our chains.

When we spoke recently with our friends at @counterpartbrewing, we wanted to bridge a gap between our grists, and blur the lines somewhere between the hyper-saturated and something classic. The results are a welcome change of pace...

DIAMOND MINE
collaboration with Counterpart Brewing
8.5% Double India Pale Ale
Pilsner and oats set a stage for wave after wave of rich oily hop compounds from egger’s Nelson, Freestyle Peacharine, Freestyle Southern Cross, and Tropical Fusion Hop Kief. Pungent notes of fresh tropical fruits, sweet peach ring candies, with a thread of cannabinoid resins throughout.

Available Friday 10/2/26 on tap and in 4-packs.

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HELLO WANDERER

WELCOME

FRESH BEER RELEASES

Dream Debris - New England IPA - Beer Release

Ed's Wings - Melesa's Wings Collaboration - Double IPA - Beer Release

Gravity Chasm - Azvex Collaboration - Double IPA - Beer Release

UPCOMING EVENTS

FOLLOW OUR PATH

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