this is wrong and dangerious! Home brewing very well can cause methanol poinonings. It doesn't happen often because the process is complex enough to get settup that anyone likey talk to someone (or read a book) and get the simple process to avoid it (throw out the beginnigs of each batch since the harmful stuff comes first).

One leads to the other. Once you have distillation everywhere, bootlegging follows.

This was literally the basis of one of the first conflicts of the early federal government.