newbie question
Posted: Tuesday Dec 03, 2013 1:28 pm
Hi All,
This is my first post and I am looking forward to participating more in the future.
I am wondering about the idea of the distillation process having 'heads', not good, 'body' good, and 'tails' good/not good?. It seems to me that if I ferment a wash of 15-20 % abv that the ratio of good and not so good alcohol should be the same whether I distill or not. One doesn't get headaches, blindness, etc. from drinking this alcohol, so, and forgive my ignorance here, why should it become toxic when I distill? All I am removing is the water from the alcohol, aren't I. Is it that the concentrations are the issue?
Looking forward to clarification from those more wise than myself.
geezer
This is my first post and I am looking forward to participating more in the future.
I am wondering about the idea of the distillation process having 'heads', not good, 'body' good, and 'tails' good/not good?. It seems to me that if I ferment a wash of 15-20 % abv that the ratio of good and not so good alcohol should be the same whether I distill or not. One doesn't get headaches, blindness, etc. from drinking this alcohol, so, and forgive my ignorance here, why should it become toxic when I distill? All I am removing is the water from the alcohol, aren't I. Is it that the concentrations are the issue?
Looking forward to clarification from those more wise than myself.
geezer