methanol in your homebrew

[vitus1]

I have heard that when you make homebrew you get methanol in it if you don't do it right
The way i was thinking to brew was

sugar
yeast
water
cornmash

let it stand for 2-3 days

then put it in a high pressure pot with a copper pipe in it so when it boil it gone up the copper pipe and then it gone to a bucket with cold water where the copper pibe is in loops and then there is a hole where it gone out near bottom of the bucket

is this a safe way to brew? and is there some temperatures i need to be aware of?

 

[madscientist451]

What you are describing is Distilling, which can't be discussed here because there are forum rules that prohibit that.
Acetone, Methanol and other undesirable volitiles will be produced in the distilling process, and you need to educate yourself on what to do so you don't make yourself or others sick from consuming those things.
There are many books, videos and web pages devoted to home distilling.
If you are in the US, distilling of Alcohol is illegal without a license.

 

[alphaomega]

Acetone, Methanol and other undesirable volitiles will be produced in the distilling process

That is 100% not true.

 

[indymedic]

Also distilling is not illegal in the US.

 

[whoaru99]

Also distilling is not illegal in the US.

If you have all the necessary permits, pay the tax, etc., no. But, it does not have the same "home brew" status of beer and wine - at least not at Federal level.

https://www.ttb.gov/spirits/home-distilling.shtml

 

[Pappers_]

As noted above, we don't do distilling discussion here. Home distilling is illegal.