Continuous rectification is an important distillation method used commonly in industry to separate liquid mixtures. Evaluation was conducted on the reflux ratio for an ethanol-water batch process in order to examine its effect on the purity of the ethanol distillate. Reflux ratio was varied inside a packed column within the range of 40% to 100% incremented at 20%. Results showed that increasing the reflux ratio caused the ethanol-water weight percentage to increase. This result deviated from theory because the system was not run for enough time. Additionally, the McCabe-Thiele graphical method was applied to determine 5 to 6 minimum number of theoretical stages. From this theoretical number and the height of the packed column, the Height Equivalent to Theoretical Plate (HETP) was computed to be within the range of 0.130 and 0.156 m.