so if i was to take grape juice and some yeast from a grocery store, i could make safe wine to drink? (like this http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/booze_the_legal_drug/homemadewinech179707.html)
but in the process of distilling you are simply separating the chemicals, not creating any new ones. Therefore everything that comes from the distilling process was originally in the brew... like methyl alcohol.