Projectile Vomiting from the first run

[coppertopper]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

So I have finished my first run of juice and after taking one shot of the hearts, got violently ill about 2-3 hours later. I am very confused as to why and cannot find any literature on this site or others to explain what the problem could be.

Here is what happened:

I got my still, all copper, lead free from the whiskey still company. Here's a link to the image for those of you who would recognize it. (http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0118/1 ... 1349492133" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow)

I first cleaned this still as described in the instructions then ran a vinegar/water 50/50 mixture through the still to further clean it.

I rinsed everything and poured in a strong apple cider to distill. I ran the still up to boiling for the methanol, got a little bit and dumped it. When it got up to boiling out the ethanol, I dumped the first 2 ounces to be safe and started taking the heads. I swapped jars (collection container) for the hearts and again for the tails and turned off the heat to let everything cool down.

I capped the jars as soon as I finished the collection of each cut.

After about an hour or so, I decided to take a swig of the hearts and opened the jar, poured about an ounce and drank it. I only had the one shot and it didn't taste off when compared to other alcohols and I thought everything was fine. (it should be said that it doesn't smell funny either) Soon after, I started getting pretty bad stomach cramps and within a few hours began vomiting for the rest of the night.

My question is: what could have gone wrong?

A few notes:

The hotplate I have does cycle, it didn't seem to cause any problems as the liquid remained well within the desired temperature ranges at all times during the runs.

While I did clean out everything thoroughly, my condenser did contain water while doing my vinegar run so the result was a liquid drip rather than a steam. Not sure if this matters, but I thought I'd mention it.

All my jars were clean. I did not dilute any of the alcohol. The "mash" was an apple cider that I made a few weeks back and was fully fermented. The ABV was about 7% pre distillation.

Please help as I am now pretty worried about going forward.

Thanks