Q. Does one recite Shecheyanu on new liquor prepared from new esrogim?

A. Horav Horav Yaakov Hirshman Shlit’a explained that since the esrogim are boiled a number of times and after grinding and mixing the paste in alcohol, very little remains of the new fruit; even if one would make a Shecheyanu on the esrog, one does not do so on the liquor.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a