Beer can chicken!

[I Are Baboon]

Beer can chicken on the grill. I use a gas grill. You start with a can of beer and a 3.5lb chicken. Well, two cans of beer in my case.

My choice of beer was Sea Hag IPA.

Soak a couple of wood chunks in 12oz of beer for an hour. The wood chunks go on the grill over the burners to add smokiness. I used hickory wood chunks.

Put the wood chunks onto the grill. Turn on grill and heat until the wood starts to smoke, then reduce the heat to 350.

Rinse the chicken inside and out. Pat it dry with a paper towel. Rub some bbq rub inside the cavity. Pour a little olive oil onto the bird and rub it around. Sprinkle the outside of the chicken with some more bbq rub. Take another can of beer and empty half the beer into your belly, then add 1tsp rub into the can of beer.

Stand the bird up onto the can of beer so the can goes up the bird's butt. Stand it up on the grill.

Smoky grill! Cook on 350 degree indirect heat for about 90 minutes or until done. My grill has four burners, so for indirect heat I turn on the two outside burners and place the bird over the middle two burners.

Success!

I cook it and the wife cuts it. It was freakin delicious. Plenty of leftovers for lunch tomorrow, too.

I roasted some mini gold potatoes to go with it.

That's all.

 

[froria]

that looks wicked mmmmmmmm

 

[twarrior]

I haven't made that before but have eaten some and yes sir it's might fine. Thanks for the recipe!

 

[fufu]

This is what I thought of when I saw "can chicken" -

YouTube Video

 

[tucker01]

Very nice.

 

[ectomorph141]

Yes that looks VERY good.

 

[wordgeist]

thanks for the recipe

 

[I Are Baboon]

I made soda can chicken last weekend, using Boylan's cane sugar cola...none of that Coke/Pepsi corn syrup crap. I poured the bottle of Boylan's into an empty soda can. I thought the soda can chicken came out better than the beer chicken. Definitely a touch of sweetness. Wife still preferred the beer chicken though.

 

[MyK]

awesome!

 

[obb4d]

you can't really beat beer and chicken can you? brilliant recipe, going to try this one now the sun is out!

 

[dave 236]

My brother-in-law used to own a bar b que restraunt and that was one of his biggest sellers.It not only tastes great it's just fun as hell to cook.

 

[dave 236]

By the way those potatoes look f'n awesome.This shit is making me hungry.

 

[suprfast]

Looks good. What type of wood did you use? Also, there is no need to soak the wood. If you are lucky less than 5% of weight would soak into the wood, at best. Plus it just prolongs smoke.

 

[theCaptn']

there is another method, opening a can of Guiness and mounting the chook on top.

The heat forces the Guiness in through the chicken from the inside, proving a marinade of sorts.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Looks good. What type of wood did you use? Also, there is no need to soak the wood. If you are lucky less than 5% of weight would soak into the wood, at best. Plus it just prolongs smoke.

I use Weber brand hickory wood chunks (not chips). I only soak them because that's what the recipe said to do. The problem I've having is that both times I've made this (first the beer, then the soda), the wood has caught fire. I may lay some foil under them next time to prevent the flame from hitting the wood directly.

 

[suprfast]

I use Weber brand hickory wood chunks (not chips). I only soak them because that's what the recipe said to do. The problem I've having is that both times I've made this (first the beer, then the soda), the wood has caught fire. I may lay some foil under them next time to prevent the flame from hitting the wood directly.

Offset the wood just a bit or use a pan to keep DIRECT flame from hitting it. Odds are it will always catch on fire. Soaking it will only prevent it from catching on fire for maybe 10 minutes. A trick i used to try when using my gasser was to use a wood chip box and place it perpendicular to the fire|--
and put the wood on the opposite end. It will slowly smoke the wood from the heat of the wood chip box. You can try wrapping all wood in foil too. This will cut the oxygen allowed inside the foil pouch so it can not accelerate into a fire.

 

[soxmuscle]

Looks delicious.