Lasso Wbéimar Bolanos, 28, takes 12 cups of coffee when you are working. The young man says that the secret is to know how the process of growing grain. Compete in May in London.
The good smell and taste Lasso tuned Wbéimar Bolaños took 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, acknowledged that are not classified as Nariño good tasting but says he is the exception for the knowledge he has of the grain.
"A normal person would do this kind of evidence but, perhaps, find no difference in the cafe, then, the difficulty level is pretty high," says the Nariño.
To be a connoisseur of coffee, the Bolaños Lasso is needed, above all, a good preparation.
"I am also a producer, but has helped me a lot of training. I'm finishing my studies and all that academic support that I have earned me a lot in my performance as a taster, "he says.
Is 28 and studying at the Faculty of Engineering, University of agroindustrial Nariño. Who started in the aroma of coffee was his own father, Marcus Aurelius Lasso, a farmer of the village of Buenos Aires, city 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 takes two cups of coffee a day heavily 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 it is not advisable. I know what I'm recommending a producer, I can determine what is missing or what you have left this coffee, so you have to do it in a very responsible way, "said Lasso.
Now, have pinned their hopes on World Cup Taster, to be held in London in May 2010. The task is not easy: he will represent the country that has the smoothest coffee in the world.