Yeah, ethanol doesn't get turned into methanol by distillation. But fermentation produces both and one purpose of distillation is separating them. Thats why you have to remove the foreshot. An incompetent distiller can still cost you your eyesight or even life.
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If you're producing spirits it should be your goal. Especially if there is wood in the mash.
Thats wrong, methanol has a lower evaporation temperature than ethanol, thats why it's in the foreshot.
And yes, most of the time it's greedy business men mixing industrial methanol in their drinks, but there have been some cases of poisoning with self destilled alcohol in the Balkans, i.e
https://deutsch.radio.cz/methanolvergiftungen-der-slowakei-ursache-ist-tschechischer-schnaps-8337380
Sorry link is in german.