Beer Can Chicken Options

[Bob]

1 Chicken (fryer or roaster)
1 Can of beer (your choice for brand)
Virgin Olive Oil

Open the beer and drink half of it.
Coat the chicken with the olive oil
Push the (1/2 full) beer can up the butt end of the chicken
Cover the open neck with either of an onion, potato, green pepper, (ya want to keep the moisture in the chicken)
2 Cooking methods
- On the barbecue, indirect heat with chicken sitting up on the beer can
- In the oven (325) on either a cookie sheet or tin foil cooking pan
(You can simplify things and buy a beer can chicken cooker at Walmart)
The trick is to save the drippings, it makes a great sauce/gravy.
Cook for three hours
- I like to cook at 275 and usually do it for four hours)
For additional flavoring, soak wood chips in water for half hour, then add to the barbeque for the last 45 minutes of cooking. Smoking gives the chicken a nice brown colour and great taste.

Now as a side treat (when I'm barbecuing) I cut up potatoes into four quarters, stick them back together with butter, spice them (with either salt/pepper or garlic powder), sprinkle on Parmesan cheese, wrap them in foil, throw them on the barbecue and let them cook for an hour.

Now you ask, where did I get this recipe, well last fall I bought a cd/dvd called 10 days out by Kenny Wayne Shepperd. While watching the DVD they had a piece on a great blues bar/dinner that served "Beer Can" chicken, so I decided to try it out.

As a side note I only use real charcoal grille for barbecuing, I've given up on propane.

Oh and one final thing, I usually put on the Heavan's Radio CDs and have a couple of more beers while the chicken is cooking. I've noticed that this adds that little extra to the meal.

This post has been edited by Bob: Oct 10 2008, 07:38 PM

[Country Mamma]

Thanks Bob,

Beer Can Chicken is awesome....so moist and delicious...

If you haven't heard of Beer Can Chicken then here it is.

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As a matter of fact it is sooo popular that some clever person has developed a cooking appliance (?), helper to make it easier to to balance your chicken. I personally have never felt the need to buy one.

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You can also make it in your oven, while it still is moist and delicious...some how it loses some of it's mystique, but not it's sense of humor.

I have always made a rub, maybe because the person who taught me how to cook BCC was southern, and inserted/rubbed some into the Chicken's stuffing cavity and put some directly into the beer.

1 teaspoon dry mustard

1 teaspoon granulated onion

1 teaspoon paprika

1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic

1/2 teaspoon ground coriander

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground Pepper

[kellyreddog]

Thanks Bob,

Beer Can Chicken is awesome....so moist and delicious...

If you haven't heard of Beer Can Chicken then here it is.

Thanks CM ...

... swiped/borrowed your/your friend's BCC rub recipe for next time ... much more daring than how I usually prep the bird ...

... actually have one of those 2 BCC holders that I bought out of Texas (via eBay) last year ... it's taken a lickin' big time this past summer and still looks good as new ...

me 'n krd

[Bob]

Thanks CM ...

... swiped/borrowed your/your friend's BCC rub recipe for next time ... much more daring than how I usually prep the bird ...

... actually have one of those 2 BCC holders that I bought out of Texas (via eBay) last year ... it's taken a lickin' big time this past summer and still looks good as new ...

me 'n krd

Couple of things I forgot to mention:

I've substituted soft drinks for beer, for example Dr. Pepper gives the chicken a sweet taste.

A couple of weeks ago I saw something on the food channel that I tried with BC chicken. You separate the skin from the breast (I used a knife), rub spices onto the breast, close it up (I used tooth picks to reattach the skin) and cook with the beer can. As the chicken cooks the spice gets right into the meat.

I like this kinda of cooking, there's so much you can do.

P.S. CM I'll try the rub, next time I make BCC.
P.P.S. My wife has drawn the line at Beer Can Turkey

This post has been edited by Bob: Oct 11 2008, 08:09 PM

[kellyreddog]

... going with the (Aussie recipe) rotisserie Turkey on the Bar-B tomorrow ... just 3 of us for T-Day ... so a 10 pounder should be "MORE THAN ENUFF" (with lots of leftovers ... ) ... supposed to hit 23 deg. C tomorrow ... will pretend it's still summer ...