Hi! NIcos thanks for thr reference in this string. Having served 10 years in a laboratory I am well aware of ethyl and methyl alcohol which are both present in any alchoholic drink. The trouble with distillation is that you cannot be sure how much of each you are distilling across from the mash to the spirit. They distill at different temperatures, thus the problem. Annie trip yes I have a recipe but am not sure how you could contact me, perhaps through the moderators. I would like to suggests that the bottom line is 'what ever you drink, take it easy'. I lived in the west country in the 70's and used to buy farmhouse cider. The chancellor realised how much was being made but not taxed so he introduced a tax on farm cider. The farms stopped making it, except for a brave few. A whole local industry decimated by goverment greed. The same happened with small stills it was the tax man that closed the small prodiucer so that they could contol the larger producer.