How to test for methanol? I wanted to make some ethanol from baker's yeast and I used sucrose. I've made it and put it in a glass jar. I left it on a warm place (near the radiator) until the yeast died and after they died I distilled the yellowish liquid using simple distillation. When I smelled the product in the receiving flask I was confused. It resembled ethanol a little. The smell was like sweet and medium-intense ethanol. I think that it might be methanol. If there are any reagents or tests other than smelling that I can use at home, please do tell.
Sorry @ JavaScriptCoder, but I've to agree with aventurin. I'd say idoform test should have been done in a certified laboratory because of safety concern. However, I think fractional distillation might be helpful for this identification (or simply verification). OP can do this at home since he/she has done simple distillation at home. Ethanol/water binary system give an azeotrope, which boils at $\pu{78.1 ^\circ C}$ and gives $95\%$ ethanol. Methanol, on the other hand, make no azeotrope with water, and boils at $\pu{64.7 ^\circ C}$. The temperature range of $\pu{13.4 ^\circ C}$ need only about ≤20 theoretical plates to separate. If you get first distillate below, say, $\pu{67 ^\circ C}$, then you got methanol or something other than ethanol. So, don't drink it.

For more information, read the Wikipedia page having Azeotrope tables.