Three beer can chickens

Hank_Stamper

My wife requested chicken for her birthday, so she got three styles of beer can chicken:  one rubbed in traditional herbes de Provence (right), one rubbed in a spicier barbecue rub (back left), and one marinated in a Turkish-yogurt marinade (front left), a recipe from Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue.

All three chickens were tasty and very moist, but to my surprise, we all liked the traditional herbes de Provence the best, followed by the Turkish marinade.  The bbq rub didn’t bring enough spice to the table to stand out relative to the other two.  The Turkish marinade was more work and much messier than either of the off-the-shelf rubs, and I don’t think that the return on investment justified the extra work.

 

Photo Egg

Like the crusty skin on the lower left bird...

GregW

I usually just drink the beer and spatchcock the chickens.
If constrained for cooking space the beer can chicken is a good option.
Your cook looks great.
Edit: Welcome to the forum.

YukonRon

Once you "spatch" a chicken or turkey, you will never cook it any other way. I love beer can chicken a lot. We would use sweet tea, because the cook ended up drinking all the beer. He has more issues than a magazine rack. 

northGAcock

I can see donating a single beer to the cause.....but a half a six? I'd be thirsty.

GregW

I'm a science kind of guy, I can't see any benefit to using the beer can cooking method. Every time I have tried it the can is just as full of liquid when removed as it was when I started. Obviously there is no boiling of the liquid in the can and thus it cant impart any beer flavor to the chicken.
These are just my thoughts......

As @YukonRon said Spatch is the way to go. It yields fantastic results.....much faster.

Dobie

Mourning the loss of three beers 

Hank_Stamper

Fear not:  only one Bud Light was harmed in the making of these chickens.  I used two ceramic stands and one beer can, and I split that beer between the three. 

Rte1985

Hank_Stamper said:

Fear not:  only one Bud Light was harmed in the making of these chickens.  I used two ceramic stands and one beer can, and I split that beer between the three. 

That's using the the old melon! Well played sir!

Dobie

Bud Light, no harm it wasn't real beer anyways carry on