That is why I was pointing out that the main focus of the study didn't help to answer the question that you made in the OP.WhiteLikker wrote:The study was trying to reduce methanol for regulatory compliance, not to reduce heads. The EU says you're allowed x mg/L and that's it.
Personally, I don't care about methanol. I don't even really care about heads in general but rather some really harsh tastes that seem to come with the heads in some of my fruit washes.
I'm not sure how logic took you there. Besides if you think heads=methanol you probably also think methanol comes out early so you are keen to make a good fores/heads cut which leads to a better product even if you don't understand the science behind it.If you start off with wrong models, perfectly logical conclusions lead to a bad product. If you think heads = methanol then the logical conclusion would be to add sugar to your fruit washes.
Then you find a site like this and you hear people say over and over not to get greedy and make proper cuts and that tightens up your craft even if you do end up with less hearts.
I remember seeing it a few years back but since the discussion was centered around methanol and since I only do sugar washes I didn't bother looking deeper into it.The study was the first thing I ever read that was even close to a scientific treatment of distillation. Between that and the discussion in this thread my understanding of distillation has changed considerably: