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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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Sunday market coffee beans! Come to Newark farmers market! Till 1 pm every Sunday.

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Sale is optional. Fun is not! 🤪

For fresh coffee come to Newark farmers market!

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Do you know what happens to the unsold coffee beans in the retail store?

We didn’t know either. I guess there’s first time for everything. We overstocked at our retail partner store and noticed that some bags from the late November roast haven’t moved. so we took them out and swapped them with the latest January roast to make sure you get the fresh coffee!

But what should we do with these bags? They are perfectly fine. I think we will keep a bag for my cold brew concentrate experiment and Give away the rest.

Send us a message if you want a free bag.

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[giveaway, free coffee beans, locally roasted]
We heard you Newark…

We know you❤️ that chicory coffee and we are bringing a lot of chicory coffee tomorrow. Along with your favorite coffee beans.

Stop by Le Mil’s shop and grab a bag from our latest 7th Jan roast. 

Get fresh local produce, baked goods, sweets and live music! At Newark farmers market. 

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Will you be there tomorrow?
@papersoncoffee is one of the coolest new cafes in San Francisco. They have their own unique take on coffee and it shows in their menu, their presentation and their selection of local roasters. I was definitely excited to hear their review on our new roasts.

Had given samples at their dogpatch popup over the weekend, I had planned to visit their downtown location today in the lunchtime. They are located at folsom and 2nd in soma. Surrounded by DoorDash, udemy and asana corporate offices.

When i arrived, Alex had already done a cupping test. Then we proceeded to pull an espresso shot with LeMils Budan bold beans. Benchmarked against some other locally roasters. Alex is super knowledgeable and we definitely learnt something from this tasting session!

My main learning from this experience was that Budan bold light roast is not only a good roast for drip coffee but it also tastes great as espresso. 

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Take a look at this beauty! This is one of the Coffee plants from our farms last week. You can also hear tropical birds chirping in the background.

Coffee Harvest is a laborious process. As you can see some of the Coffee cherries are red, ripe, and ready while others are still green, which means you can’t pluck all of them at once. At our family farms and many other family owned farms in Chikmagalur, It is a common practice to handpick only the ripe cherries, one by one by one.

It is laborious, it takes time, but it ensures the highest quality Coffee and a complex flavor profile when the bean is roasted. 

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We started something in 2024! ☕️ 
More to come in 2025. 🙊
Happy New Year 🎊 

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Thank you Newark! See you next Sunday :)

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It’s Sunday! Get fresh coffee beans @newarkfarmersmarket 

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Farm update 4:

The harvest season has begun! From December to February coffee cherries will be hand picked everyday. The harvesting is long and laborious. Everyday workers will come to the farm, pick only the ripe cherries 🍒 one by one by one. Ripe cherry means fully mature bean, bigger bean, better quality and a complete flavor profile. Hand picked coffee is always going to be better than machine harvested coffee. This is why specialty coffee from Chikmagalur is known for its quality.

Just like our family farm, Most coffee farms in India are family owned. They grow different varieties of coffee like S795, S274, S9, Cauvery are some of them.

The bags of coffee cherries will be sent to a processing facility where they will be de husked, washed and sun dried. A lot of this process is again manual and laborious.

We will keep posting the journey of your beans. All the way from farm to your cup.

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Do you like the farm updates? Should we keep posting them?
Microplastics ✅ coffee ❌

Did you know that your coffee is loaded with microplastics when you use these single use coffee cup machines?

Via @organic_tarzan
We never say no to an espresso!

Hope you all are enjoying the holiday season. We woke up late, went for a run, came back had late lunch and completely forgot about coffee until late afternoon when I reminded Milana that she skipped her morning coffee.

Poured some medium roasted Le Mil’s Arabica beans in the grinder, pulled a double espresso on our baby breville and tried my best to make latte art! I am no barista so I’m feeling pretty good about how it turned out. What do you think?
Roasting day recap!

Our latest batch was roasted in 12/17/24 and this is what a typical roasting day looks like. Or should we call the pick up day? 

Roasting team informed us on Tuesday that roasting was completed and bags are ready to pickup. We drove in on Thursday to pickup the bags. We shared a delicious pour over and a croissant. Milana took a few meetings, while I was catching up Tanya (@kavericoffee) and Phillip (@sunset_roasters)

Driving back home without getting stuck at the toll bridge is impossible but we made it back home. Made some local deliveries and called it a day.

See you at the @newarkfarmersmarket with the fresh batch :) 

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It was a fun a roasting day for Le Mil’s coffee. Our roasting days are turning into pickup days now. Thanks to the brilliant roasting team at @corocoffee, our roast profiles are now saved in the computer, which enables us to replicate the same roast consistently for every batch! Makes things much easier. 

Because of the increased demand for Indian coffee, and still managing full time jobs, we decided to get help from the pro roastmasters at @corocoffee to roast our beans so we can focus fully on fulfilling the orders.

We picked up our coffee, met some friends, had some coffee, shipped some orders and finally went back home.

 We met Tanya of @kavericoffee. Met Philip and Sara of @sunset_roasters as well. Always fun to meet fellow indie roasters! If you haven’t tried their coffee check them out too. 

Remember, local coffee is always roasted with ❤️ 

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Farm update 3:
What happened at the Coffee farm in the last two months?

We had an unexpected visit from a herd of wild elephants. see slide six for the trail of destruction they left behind.

More coffee plants now bearing fruit. take a look at the green Coffee cherries. Some of them already turning red.🍒 

Weed was cleaned around the young coffee plants so they don’t have to fight for the nutrients.

Feeling sleepy now but we will be back with more updates next week!

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Le Mil’s Chikka. Available in dark roast in 
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Le Mil’s + Breville = 😋

About to pull the morning espresso with Le Mil’s Chikka and I’m already happy 😊 

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Say hello to your new coffee bag! 
It’s the 🌈 🦄 coffee company.

We love making local deliveries in these cuties!

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Sunday is for farmer’s markets!

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