The foreshot generally contains a quantity of Methanol, Acetone and various Aldehydes along with small amounts of wanted Ethanol.
There's other even more volatile compounds in the cheaper stuff. They will evaporate even more easily than alcohol, though I'd suspect that they drag some along with it.
I'd like to add what I think is probably the biggest benefit. Economies of scale.
For example, having a mine next to a steel plant next to a manufacturing plant is so much more efficient than shipping the ore to every corner of the earth that it would be impossible to have most of what we have today without doing such things.
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The quality differs depending on the neighbourhood but I agree. Nearly every bag of potatoes from loblaws stores has been rotten. How hard is it to keep potatoes fresh?
it's probably the quality.
https://nationalhomebrew.com.au/brewers-library/safety-foreshot
There's other even more volatile compounds in the cheaper stuff. They will evaporate even more easily than alcohol, though I'd suspect that they drag some along with it.