On: Absinthe: From green fairy to moral panic

[zdragnar]

The separation isn't perfect, but the first vapors of distillation (the heads) are discarded precisely because they have a higher concentration of methanol.

Methanol boils at 65 C, ethanol at 78. Again, you wont get a perfect separation, but there's enough of a difference that you can get rid of a fair amount.

[schwartzworld → zdragnar]

You’re wrong. Distillation just doesn’t work that way. There are lots of good reasons to get rid of the foreshots, but methanol ain’t one. https://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/Methanol