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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Paul and Jacine Rutasikwa tell us how they turned a side hustle into a full-time business.
In 2017 they moved their family from London to Scotland to set up their distillery, creating an African-Scottish business.
Presenter/producer Dougal Shaw.
(Image: Paul and Jacine Rutasikwa. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:27.4 | Thank you. you get your BBC podcasts. I've come to a very modest looking warehouse in the middle of an industrial estate in Livingston, |
| 0:32.9 | a town just outside Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. |
| 0:37.6 | Inside, an activity is going on, which is a bit surprising. |
| 0:41.4 | Scotland is well known as a producer of whiskey, of course, |
| 0:44.7 | but not this stuff which I've come to witness being made. |
| 0:48.5 | I love the sweet smell of that, but you probably can't even smell it anymore. |
| 0:51.2 | You're just used to. |
| 0:52.1 | That's true. |
| 0:53.0 | A lot of people say, just standing outside the door, they can smell the room. |
| 0:56.7 | I absolutely cannot smell it, honestly. It's not as powerful for me. |
| 1:08.3 | That is Paul Ruta Sikwa. He and his wife, Jaseen, moved to Scotland from London in 2017 with their children |
| 1:14.6 | to set up their dream business, a rum distillery. |
| 1:18.1 | It had previously been a side hustle called Mataga rum, |
| 1:21.2 | but it had grown big enough to go full time on it to take a gamble on the business. |
| 1:26.5 | Now we find ourselves as part of an amazing community of rum distillers in Scotland, |
| 1:32.6 | and we're all making fantastic Scottish rum. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm Dougal Shaw and welcome to another edition of Business Daily Meats on the BBC World Service. |
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