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