The way it was explained to me the foreshots contain a lot of the stuff in the orginal fermentate that would cause you the headache and hangover, and hence are shit you want to get out, BUT since distilling doesn't create anything new and there's no methanol in the original wash, there's no methanol coming out of the still. Makes sense to me. I know I've heard distillers equate the foreshots with methanol before, but I think that might be just a common misunderstanding?


But also, this idea just struck me while writing the above -- if its true the foreshots are the headache causing stuff from what you fermented -- what if y ou made a batch of beer and then ONLY distilled out the foreshots? hmm.