Lasso Wbéimar Bolanos, 28, takes 12 cups of coffee while working. Young says the secret is to know how the process of growing grain. Compete in May in London.
Good taste and smell carried Wbéimar Lasso tuned Bolaños, a small farmer in Nariño, to be crowned as the first national champion coffee tasters, above 46 tasters and experts from around the country.
Lasso Bolaños, who received the distinction in Ibague two weeks ago, acknowledges that Narino are not classified as good tasting but says he is the exception for the knowledge he has of grain.
"A normal person would do such tests, but perhaps not find any difference in cafes, then, the difficulty level is pretty high," the Narino.
To be a coffee connoisseur, as Lasso Bolaños, is needed, above all, a good preparation.
"I am also a producer but has served me much training. I am finishing my studies and all the academic support that I have earned me a lot in my performance as a taster, "he says.
He's 28 and studying at the Faculty of Engineering, University of agro Nariño. Who started in the aroma of coffee was his own father, Marcus Aurelius Lasso, a farmer in the village of Buenos Aires, municipality of San Pedro de Cartago.
"The theme of the tasting coffee in our department is relatively new, small farmers have a laboratory only three years ago and that has opened many doors in terms of market and training," says Lasso Bolaños.
This taster will take two cups of coffee per day rather laden. The first, at 7 am, and the second between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. When it's working as a taster has to taste 10 to 12 cups a day.
"We can do the race but not advisable. I know what I'm recommending a producer, I can determine what is missing or what's left over to the coffee, so it must be done in a very responsible, "said Lasso.
Now, you have encrypted their hopes in the World Cup of Coffee Tasters, to be held in London in May 2010. The task is simple: you must represent the country that has the smoothest coffee in the world.