“Yes, if memory serves, it is one of the first products of distillation when making moonshine, which is why moonshiners throw out the first batch (They have a name for it).”
Moonshine is not wood alcohol.
No moonshine is mostly corn mash, if I recall. Never tried to make it. I own a still but only for distilling water and I don’t have the extra condenser part (forget the name of it) that you’d need for making alcohol.
I don’t think you need any wood product to get methanol. It would probably be present when making any ethanol. I’m sure there are some where who have expertise in this.
Apparently, a minute amount is produced in the fermentation...
Something new every day.
https://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2013/09/10/3845522.htm
“Methanol is formed in very small amounts during fermentation, the process by which alcohol is made from plant products like grape juice or cereal grains. There are small amounts in wine and beer, but not enough to cause problems when these products are made at home, says Leigh Schmidtke, a senior lecturer in wine microbiology and production at Charles Sturt University. But home distillation to make spirits like gin or rum concentrates the levels of both ethanol and methanol.”