AUTODIDACT BEER

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MORRIS PLAINS, NEW JERSEY

Opened for business, March 2023, AUTODIDACT BEER crafts precision-guided, stylistically efficient brews. Occupying a pristine Morris Plains strip mall in an epoxy floored neo-Industrial middle space, Autodidact is run by long-time friends Ron Scouten and Ron Cassell, whose beer journey started when they utilized stovetop brewkits.

A concrete-topped ten-draught serving station anchors the studio-like black ceilinged pub. There’s a loungey right side area, four metal-chaired left side tables and benched tables. Windowed brew tanks are in the back.

I sojourned to Autodidact one rainy Thursday afternoon in September ’23 to try all eight available brews.

Delicate light-bodied Bavarian-styled Pastel Pilsner allowed nutty millet graining and husked corn dryness to spread thru mildly musky herbal hopped pungency.

Crisply clean dry-bodied West Coast-styled Hexagram Classic Pale Ale retained orange-oiled yellow grapefruit bittering and resinous floral herbage above muskily grained pale malting.

Soft-toned Wash Grisette let herbal botanicals soak into lemon-oiled vodka salting contrasted by honeyed rum florality.

Dry sea-salted liming and mild coriander spicing guided Burn Out The Limelight Gose, leaving lemony cologne musk on key lime pie tartness at the backend.

Easygoing Colder Hearts Cold IPA placed flaked rice sweetness inside its lemony orange-peeled grapefruit spritz, retaining a mildly creamed vanilla froth to contrast its latent grassy astringency.

Peachy pineapple tanginess, orange-peeled grapefruit zest and mildly salted guava-passionfruit enveloped Dualism New England IPA, as dry cannabis-oiled Strata hops and lemony pined Pacific Sunrise hops coalesced above sugary pale malts.

Rye-dried Sign The Bill Phil NEIPA utilized Sabro hops to remit mild coconut toasting, candied lollipop tartness, lemon meringue piquancy, orange marmalade tanginess and sugary spicing.

Oats-charred molasses treacled thru the nutty black chocolate bittering of Hawks And Doves Oatmeal Stout, a dryer stylistic changeup.

EQUILIBRIUM MOBIUS PORTER WITH COFFEE AND VANILLA

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Updated Mobius variant betters original with its coffee-vanilla forward design. Soft-tongued Madagascar vanilla bean bittering absorbs lightly creamed coffee roast that then pervades dark roast hop-charred porter. At the finish, unsweetened cacao nibs insistence and dry espresso milking join vanilla coffee richness. Only some latent oily coffee remnant dampens fine prospect.

Möbius With Coffee And Vanilla - Equilibrium Brewery - Untappd

DESTINATION UNKNOWN PINA COLADA NEW ENGLAND IPA

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Salt-rimmed pineapple zesting and toasted coconut sugaring peruse lactose-aided vanilla creaming then given stiff vodka-like kick underscoring rummy Pina Colada knockoff. Marshmallow fluffed ambrosia salad illusions as well as orange marmalade tartness, lemon meringue piquancy, lime-zested guava souring and musty green grape esters provide ample follow-thru. Only a hint of alkaline astringency gets in the way of perfection.

Science of Selling Piña Coladas - Destination Unknown Beer Company - Untappd