/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1152695
You never need to worry about that unless you are distilling grappa. If grappa is incorrectly distilled it will have too much methanol in it and will seriously harm you or even kill you.

All other types of distilling are safe from that, even if incorrectly done. All types of fermenting alcohol are safe from that. The amount of alcohol you'd need to drink in order for the minuscule methanol amounts to harm you would kill you from ethanol poisoning long before the methanol harms you.

When someone illegally uses denatured alcohol added to fermented or distilled alcohol it will be extremely dangerous, causing harm and death. denatured alcohol has methanol in it as well as some other poisonous substances. It is only used for industrial purposes or fuel.

This latter reason is why you need to ask people how they made their distilled alcohol. Some people are dishonest/ignorant and don't know that denatured alcohol can kill you. Only drink distilled alcohols from people whom you trust and have a good track record.

Poorly or badly made fermented alcohols, which are infected and bad for your health, will be so nasty tasting that it would take a herculean effort of gag reflex to actually drink them to get sick. Even then you'd throw it up and/or have the shits for 1-3 days, not fun.