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.
Lasso Wbeimar Bolaños was crowned last weekend as the National Champion Cupping during the Second International Specialty Coffee Fair (ExpoEspeciales) 2009, held in the capital of Tolima. In addition to recognition of the union local coffee, also won the international juries, three million pesos in cash and as a reward 'major', will represent Colombia in the World Cup Master Championship, to be held in London next year. The event, supported by the National Federation of Coffee Growers, was organized (technically) by the Norwegian Alf Kramer, the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI) and organizer of Tasters World Championships since 2004, the U.S. also CQI Kelly Peltier and instructor training, and the Colombian Nicolas Rodriguez, technical director of the Specialty Coffee Association of Colombian and instructor training for coffee tasters. The competition was enrolled 42 participants from across the country, belonging to all the links in the chain of production and marketing of coffee, who underwent trials of cupping coffees. The organizers said that this championship will seek to honor the great work of Colombian coffee tasters and give them equal status and credibility of the wine tasters. Likewise, it seeks to stimulate interest in coffee cupping, through an entertaining, fast, fair and friendly competition. The winner is agroindustrial engineer, is 28 and hails from San Pedro de Cartago (Nariño), while his family is dedicated to coffee in that department. In the race he was accompanied by 41 other participants from around the country, including producers, tasters import and export companies, the National Federation of Coffee Growers, the committees and the grain growers' cooperatives. David Molina Gomez, Caldas (Antioquia) was second, Cristina Garces, the third, and Eliezer Pinzón, the fourth.
