100 Mile Cocktails: The Beer, Rum, Tequila and Other Drinks of Four Seasons

Four Seasons mixologists in North, Central and South America got to work on these “farm to glass” specialty cocktails.

Mar 23, 2012

By: L.T. Niosi

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Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta's “Appalachian Moonshiner” Cocktail

The 100 Mile Cocktails of Washington, Las Vegas and Philadelphia

Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagyo's “18th on the Green”

Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills created the “Lady Marmalade,” “10 Miles of Pride,” “Cola Libre” and “Paradise Papaya Passion”

Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, Mexico's “Ca’aru” Cocktail

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Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta created the Appalachian Moonshiner with peaches, pecans, honey from their own beehive, bacon and, of course, moonshine.

Photography Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

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Clockwise from left: Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC created the DMV Baybrine Shandy with wheat beer and bay brine lemonade.Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas‚ created the Integrale, made with melon, sea salt and jalapeño. (Las Vegas' Beer Float cocktail is not pictured.) The Rt. 67 from Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia took the 100-mile challenge to the next level; all of their ingredients are from within 15 miles of the Hotel.

Photography courtesy Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

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Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagyo made the 18th on the Green cocktail with Guaro Cacique, a special Costa Rican Sugar cane-distilled alcoholic drink.

Photography Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

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Clockwise from top: Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills created the Lady Marmalade cocktail with blood orange dust and white rum foam. Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis’ creation, 10 Miles of Pride, is made with fresh egg, root beer and homemade vermouth. Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires created the Cola Libre with homemade cola syrup ice spheres. Four Seasons Resort Nevis’ Paradise Papaya Passion is made with lime rum and both papaya and passion fruit puree.

Photography Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

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Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, Mexico made the Ca’aru, which means Guava in Cora dialect. It is made with coconut water, guava leaves and, of course, tequila.

Photography Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

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Some 36 Four Seasons hotels in North, Central and South America were challenged to create a cocktail using only locally sourced ingredients. Limited only by their imaginations and a 100-mile radius, the hotel mixologists put their own spin on a 100 Mile Cocktail. Punta Mita tapped into tequila, while Costa Rica selected guaro cacique—a Costa Rican liquor—and Atlanta used sourced moonshine for its beverage.

A cocktail made with beer isn’t something you’ll find on every cocktail menu, but then again neither is a drink made with all local ingredients. Four Seasons properties in Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Washington, DC, created specialty drinks using beer as the main ingredient for the 100 Mile Cocktail challenge.

Rum, many people’s favourite spirit, was the main ingredient in cocktails created by Four Seasons hotels in Beverly Hills, Nevis, St. Louis and Buenos Aires.

For the full recipe of each of these 100 Mile Cocktails, be sure to visit our Facebook page and view the photo album dedicated to these creative concoctions.

Browse our photo galleries by cocktail type for all 37 of the 100 Mile Cocktails.

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Or, find a cocktail by participating hotel:

Atlanta
Austin
Baltimore
Boston
Buenos Aires
Chicago (Four Seasons Chicago)
Chicago (The Ritz-Carlton)
Costa Rica
Dallas
Denver
Hawaii, Hualalai
Hawaii, Lana‘i at Manele Bay
Hawaii, Maui
Jackson Hole
Las Vegas
Los Angeles (Four Seasons Los Angeles)
Los Angeles (Beverly Wilshire) (submitted two cocktails)
Los Angeles Area (Westlake Village)
Miami
Nevis
New York
Palm Beach
Palo Alto, Silicon Valley
Philadelphia
Punta Mita, Mexico
San Diego, Aviara (Residence Rental)
San Francisco
Santa Barbara
Scottsdale
Seattle
St. Louis
Toronto
Vail
Vancouver
Washington, DC
Whistler

3 Comments about 100 Mile Cocktails: The Beer, Rum, Tequila and Other Drinks of Four Seasons

David says:
June 25, 2012 at 1:57 pm
They don’t show the Appalachian Moonshiner…. sad. We tried making this and it was god awful. I really want to know how the recipe is for that drink. We got all the ingredients but we couldn’t even finish a small glass of it. Gave it to the bums downtown
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L.T. Niosi says:
April 11, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Hey Orientsailor,
All of the recipes are available on the Four Seasons Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150682907576031.447485.106280431030&type=3
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orientsailor says:
April 4, 2012 at 12:07 pm
What a tease! All this talk of the winning cocktails but no recipes for any of them. How boring!
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100 Mile Cocktails: The Beer, Rum, Tequila and Other Drinks of Four Seasons