Brad's beer can chicken. Yes, the chicken looks rather ridiculous on its beer can perch, covered with an herb rub and half-ready to salute you. While the chicken is dry roasting on the outside, the inside is being bathed with steamy beer, keeping the chicken meat wonderfully moist. Novelty aside, beer can chicken is the best, easiest way to cook a whole chicken on the grill without any special equipment.
Sitting a whole chicken on top of an open beer can may seem a little bit weird, or even frivolous, but it's actually a genius recipe method for barbecuing a whole bird while keeping it moist, tender, and. Rinse chicken under cold running water. Discard giblets and neck from chicken; drain and pat dry. You can cook Brad's beer can chicken using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Brad's beer can chicken
- You need 2 of whole roasting chickens, big enough to fit a beer can in.
- Prepare 3 (12 Oz) of beers.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of McCormicks Montreal steak seasoning.
- You need 2 tbs of lemon pepper.
- Prepare 2 tbs of poultry seasoning.
- It’s 1 tbs of Mccormick's island wood fire grill seasoning.
- It’s of juice of one lemon.
Beer can chicken (also known as chicken on a throne, beer butt chicken, Coq au can, dancing chicken and drunken chicken) is a barbecued chicken dish and method of indirect grilling using a partially-filled can of beer that is placed in the chicken's cavity prior to cooking. Recipe from Weber's Big Book of Grilling™ by Jamie Purviance and Sandra S. Open the beer can and pour off half of the beer. Using a church key-style can opener, make two more holes in the top of the can.
Brad's beer can chicken instructions
- Rinse and pat dry chickens. Slip a knife between the shin and breastfeeding meat..
- Mix all seasoning together. Rub under skin, all over the outside of the chicken. Sprinkle what is left into the body cavity..
- Juice the lemon and pour under the skin..
- Pour 1/3 of each beer into a roaster and insert into the body cavity of each chicken..
- Use skewers to support the chickens so they don't fall while cooking.
- Bake at 350 until internal temp reaches 165. Pour third beer into roaster half way through cooking.
- When done, tent with foil and let rest 5-10 minutes. Carve and serve.
Set the can on a flat surface and slide the chicken over the top. Beer Can Chicken is not a good way to cook chicken. Here's why, and how you can make better roast chicken. But Beer Can Chicken remains a gimmick, an inferior cooking technique, a waste of good beer, and it is potentially hazardous (click to Tweet this). Don't just drink your beer; use it to grill a Beer Can Chicken recipe from Food Network.
