• Local restaurateur launches coffee bourbon

    The timing for the launch of Jeff Johnson's coffee bourbon, AmPm, was ideal — just as summer was letting loose of its chokehold. AmPm's coffee aroma hints at heavy coffeecakes and snow boots, fires and gumbos.
    Johnson, who owns Local and Parish Grocery, said the bourbon came about because of an evolutionary process.
    "As I grew older," he said, "things didn't revolve as much around bars. I was still taking meetings and going about my day, but there was more and more coffee involved."Plus,&h

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