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Le Mil's

Specialty Coffee from India

Shade grown, hand picked, sun dried, single origin coffee beans.

From the family farms in Chikmagalur, Karnataka

Roasted in small batches in Berkeley, California

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Afternoon delight! @baked.smallbatch mochi muffin with Budan bold pour over. 🤤
SAVE and try this with your morning espresso :) After months of experimentation, we’ve engineered the perfect ratio for the most creamy & delicious espresso. 18:28:38 - let us know how you like it 🦄✨
The secret is Le Mil’s chicory coffee….. thank us later 😈🦄✨
The secret is Le Mil’s chicory coffee of course, thank us later 😈🦄✨
Something that existed only in imagination last year is now ships in 🦄 branded 60kg sacks…

Last year we started our coffee business with a few sacks of green beans. This year we bringing 10 times coffee in sacks branded with our beloved unicorn 🦄 logo. 🥹

We are still very small but it’s a big moment for us. We are not taking anything for granted. This also belongs to you all. Thank you for trying the unicorn coffee 🙏 

1. The front of the sack with Le Mil’s 🦄 logo
2. The back of the sack with Navilu Mane Estate’s 🦚 logo. (The family farm where the coffee comes from)

2025 harvest will arrive in these 60kg sacks in 6 weeks!!! 

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

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655 22nd street, San Francisco. @mainstaymarkets 10 am Le Mil’s coffee demo!

We are rebooting the coffee demos at the mainstay markets. Starting tomorrow. 10 am onwards.

It was a wonderful harvest season at the farm but we are back in the bay and eager to reconnect with our coffee community!

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

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Coffee restock alert 🚨 

hey Berkeley Fam, our 310 batch is restocked in your favorite @bombayspicehouse at 1036 university avenue. 

Get a bag today!

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

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What is Chicory? 

We get asked this question a lot.. 

Chicory is a plant with edible leaves and a root that is famously used as a coffee alternative. The root has a distinct, bitter flavor that becomes sweeter when roasted. It’s a source of inulin, a prebiotic.

A substantial amount of clinical research suggests that Chicory can Stimulate the growth of beneficial gut bacteria while decreasing other germs and bacteria in the intestines, Relieve constipation.

In India, the traditional coffee recipe is known as “filter coffee” or just “kaapi”. and it’s always a blend of specialty Indian coffee and chicory root powder. 

The golden ratio of coffee to chicory is 80 to 20. It has been our family standard for five generation, and we think it brings the perfect balance of heavy, rich, velvety texture, and mouthfeel with long lasting flavor.

filter coffee can be brewed in a traditional, Indian coffee filter or a mocha pot. Add some milk and just a tiny bit of sugar. make sure to enjoy that coffee while it’s hot.

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

[LeMils, specialty coffee, Indian coffee, Chikmagalur, San Francisco, Bay Area]

Would you try chicory coffee blend?
Meet Alicja from @tielhandmade 

She is one of Le Mil’s regular customers and also a brilliant artisan soap maker. Makes artisan soap in small batches! For her next small batch, Alicja is going to make an exfoliating soap with Le Mil’s coffee grounds.

Would you like to try coffee soap?
Look who decided to show up at the coffee Estate. 🐘🐘🐘

My mom sent me this video just now. Elephant spotting is common in Southern Indian Coffee farms. Usually they are in herd, but this guy wandered off on his own.

The loud sound you heard in the background is from a firecracker and not a gunshot. Loud sounds usually will make them run away but not always. If they decide to squat on your farm, then there is nothing you can do about it.🤣 

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸
What is 18:28:38?

After countless espresso shots, we found the formula for perfect espresso with the Malenad 80:20 blend. Summed up as 18:28:38.

18 grams beans
28 seconds extraction 
38 ml output 

Grind size : fine. It’s a bit of discovery because every grinder is different. 

Water temperature : 92 degrees Celsius. Play between 88 to 93.

Beans : Le Mil’s Malenad 80:20 blend

Roast : Dark

Enjoy that cup!

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Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

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Welcome to our home in Chikmagalur, India 🏠 This is our family coffee farm of 5 generations 🦄 These sounds have formed the melody of our heritage and we are honored to share it with you. We humbly invite you to learn more and try our beans at www.lemils.com #lemils #coffee #specialtycoffee #coffeefarmers #coffeefarm #coffeeharvest
Welcome to our home in Chikmagalur, India 🏠 This is our family coffee farm of 5 generations 🦄 These sounds have formed the melody of our heritage and we are honored to share it with you. We humbly invite you to learn more and try our beans at www.lemils.com 🥰
Poornakka, Rani and Vishali are the real heroes who pick the coffee cherries one by one.

Roasting next batch this Friday. Get your orders in before.

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Comment UNICORN for a discount on your next bag - we promise you’ll be hooked ;)
In short, the climate crisis… 

There were rare catastrophic weather events that ruined the 2024 Coffee growing seasons. A drought followed by a frost in Brazil in August and a drought followed by a flooding in Vietnam in October, reducing the total number of green beans available in the market.

The world coffee market is projected to have a short fall of 5 million bags in this year.

Reads the full story on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/26/coffee-price-inflation-tariffs/
New batch of chicory coffee blend is available now on our shop!

In India, the traditional coffee recipe is known as “filter coffee” or just “kaapi”. and it’s always a blend of specialty Indian coffee and chicory root powder. 

The golden ratio of coffee to chicory is 80 to 20. It has been our family standard for five generations, and we think it brings the perfect balance of heavy, rich, velvety texture, and mouthfeel with long lasting flavor.

filter coffee can be brewed in a traditional, Indian coffee filter or a mocha pot. Add some milk and just a tiny bit of sugar. make sure to enjoy that coffee while it’s hot.

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🦄
LeMils.com
Specialty Coffee from India 🇮🇳
Roasted in Berkeley fortnightly 🇺🇸 

#lemils #specialtycoffee #chikmaglur
Welcome to the final part of Le Mil’s Coffee Founder Fridays! 🎉☕ We’re Milana and Himanshu, the founders of Le Mil’s Coffee, and we’re here to share our journey with you—why we’re passionate about Indian coffee and what makes ours stand out. 🌱
We’ll close off by sharing how our coffee reflects our values and our big plans for 2025. 💪🏽 
Follow us for more behind-the-scenes stories, coffee tips, and first access to new products and promotions! ✨
Support us by checking out our coffee at www.lemils.com or at the Newark Farmers Market on Sundays! 🦄
What do you want to see more of from us? Drop your thoughts in the comments! 💬
We’re Le Mil’s Coffee and we hope you’ll check out our page and offerings :) We want to introduce you to the world’s best kept secret - Indian Specialty Coffee. Love at first sip, we know it 🦄✨
not to brag or anything but… our estate secret blend makes the best south indian filter coffee you’ll ever get your hands on. And costs nowhere near a trip out of the house 🤪🦄✨