Why Rum Master Distiller Sylvia Santiago Will Never Quit
Latina to Latina
LWC Studios
4.7 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:19.9 | Watch out out world. How does it train |
| 0:21.6 | how does it trained microbiologists end up spending her professional life making rum? |
| 0:43.2 | That's the story of Sylvia Santiago, the Maestra Ronera in Puerto Rico's Don Q Rum. |
| 0:49.5 | She has spent almost 50 years in the business, and with that experience comes hard-earned expertise |
| 0:55.1 | about what separates a good rum from a great rum, how a business weather's multiple |
| 1:00.2 | natural disasters, and very strong opinions on the right way to drink rum. |
| 1:14.7 | Sylvia, you are studying medical technology. |
| 1:18.1 | Your plan was to work in a hospital running blood samples. |
| 1:20.9 | How did you end up at a distillery? |
| 1:25.6 | That's the question that I also asked myself sometimes. |
| 1:33.1 | I always was inclined to go into the sciences, going into college, |
| 1:41.6 | the medical technology, attract me a lot. In fact, I practiced for almost the whole year of my advanced studies, I was working in hospitals, practicing. |
| 1:47.2 | One of the teachers told me that they were doing interviews for this company that was |
| 1:52.5 | looking for somebody to work with microbiology. So I had an interview, and we were 10 girls. |
| 2:02.6 | In that time, we were a class of just 10 ladies. |
| 2:06.6 | And they interviewed all of us. |
| 2:09.6 | So even though I was excited, I wasn't really expecting to receive the offer. |
| 2:17.4 | So when they told me that they were offering me the position, ooh! to receive the offer. |
| 2:21.1 | So when they told me that they were offering me the position, |
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