I've been wanting to try freeze distillation forever, but the concentrated methanol and fusel alcohols always kind of scared me away. Does anyone have any tips for removing these from the finished product? I was gonna warm the liquor on the stove to evaporate off the methanol but I'm wondering how one would get rid of the heavier alcohols.
Yeah, you can't get rid of the methanol and other compounds through freeze distillation. You need to boil it the traditional way. Realistically you can probably get away with just distilling the first couple hundred milliliters and what remains in the vessel will be significantly safer. If you aren't trying to get the proof significantly higher that would work. For the love of God though do not try to evaporate it on a stove, you'll light your kitchen on fire
Oh yeah, would definitely do a double boil system, but the stove is basically the only place I can secure good ventillation. Im only planning on doing very small volumes