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BeerCan Chicken
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Backyard Mike
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Brined overnight
4 qt water
6 oz salt
1 cup apple cider
Rubbed with no salt creole seasoning & olive oil
Beer can opened added 1 TBS seasoning & put in cavity
Put half of beer in spray bottle with 1 cup apple cider 1TBS balsamic vinegar 1 TBS olive oil
Spritzed about every 20 minutes
Took almost 2 hours to get to 165 in breast.
Chicken came out great. Sweet potatoes in the pan didn't get cooked.
Cooked @ 325
4 qt water
6 oz salt
1 cup apple cider
Rubbed with no salt creole seasoning & olive oil
Beer can opened added 1 TBS seasoning & put in cavity
Put half of beer in spray bottle with 1 cup apple cider 1TBS balsamic vinegar 1 TBS olive oil
Spritzed about every 20 minutes
Took almost 2 hours to get to 165 in breast.
Chicken came out great. Sweet potatoes in the pan didn't get cooked.
Cooked @ 325
Comments
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Good looking chicken. I know a lot of people prefer the spatchcocked version (which is very tasty) but I also like a beer can chicken every now and then. Always good to have several ways to cook a yard bird.
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We beer canned a lot of chickens, until I got a vertical roasting stand, much better and easier to set up and no more wasted beer. Same moist tasty chicken even if I drank the beer and filled the can with water. Once we discovered spatchcocking, even the vertical roaster has been collecting dust. My MBGE can hold three (smaller) chickens if I part out the birds (1/4 cut). Using a 12" drip pan on the setter, indirect at 350, I move the thigh parts over the outside to give them a little more heat. Because they are parted out, rub surface is greater - better taste. There is also the option to simply grill a spatchcocked or parted bird, rather than roast it.Here is an article on beer canning, which I still think is a great novelty if you like it.Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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I do spatchcock chicken more often then beer can. Mostly because spatched chicken gets done faster. I don't see a ton of difference in flavor between the two. On my last beer can I switched it up and used Apple juice instead of beer and rubbed the chicken with pork rub. So good.Mark Annville, PA
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Backyard Mike said:Sweet potatoes in the pan didn't get cooked.
XL and Medium. Dallas, Texas.
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