Missoula, Montana-based beer and food writer Kate Bernot returns to the podcast to wax nostalgic about New Jersey’s under-appreciated BYOB restaurants.

I sit down with Brian Hoefling, author of Distilled Knowledge: The Science Behind Drinking s Greatest Myths, Legends, and Unanswered Questions and discover, among other things, Brian’s “Ten-Point Scale of Intoxication.” As always , Chmcl Str8jckt composed the theme music. Subscribe on Apple, Stitcher and SoundCloud.

This episode’s a bit of a departure from the usual format. I recorded one of the events on my book tour for SakePedia. I’m in the hot seat this time, in conversation with Courtney Kaplan, co-owner of the L.A. izakaya <a href="http://”>Tsubaki at the fantastic L.A. culinary bookstore, Now Serving. Huge thanks to Courtney and…