How to: Make Beer Can Chicken #Tasty Food

you're essentially going to place your

beer down and you're going to sit that

bird right up on top of that guy so it's

oh it's still funny how you doing my

name is J Pereira your neighborhood

grill enthusiast and today I'm gonna

show you how to do Beer Can Chicken Beer

Can Chicken is quite possibly one of the

more efficient and easy ways of cooking

a chicken on a grill and the idea at

least is while the chicken is cooking

the beer inside is steaming and keeping

that chicken moist giving it extra

flavor as far as the origins of it go I

have no idea I'm sure it was just a guy

drinking beer and had a chicken around

so again what I like to do is I'll get a

small chicken this is a three and half

pounder organic farm race you know you

can get the Perdue ones if you want I'll

remove the giblets all that stuff wash

it down with cold water and as far as

preparation goes I just give it a nice

healthy dry rub I've put together a dry

rub for this pretty simple I like to

keep things as simple as possible this

is just coarse salt ground pepper a

little bit of brown sugar cayenne pepper

sweet paprika and some garlic powder so

what I'm gonna do is generously rub this

guy I like to just kind of coat around

on top and then kind of get in there you

want to make sure you get it getting

covered I like to work inside a little

bit because oftentimes with a dry rub

your just got it on the skin it's not

really doing much to flavor that chicken

get underneath the skin a little bit

whenever you can there's really no way

to actually do this incorrectly I've

rarely failed on a beer can chicken I

think the only time I ever did was just

not leaving it on there long though

we're gonna do now is prep the girl for

indirect cooking which is gonna help us

facilitate the beer can chicken if you

want you can click the link below to see

my other video on how to properly light

a charcoal grill this is a great place

where a do we have a nice hot fire going

we're gonna try to keep the temperature

around 350 which is like a medium fire

so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna

spread on either side I'm gonna put a

drip pan down in the middle report a

little beer in there

make sure there's no flare-ups things

like that also I don't know if that

doesn't anything but I think it I think

it does

in there can't hurt right more beer put

the top grade back on and this looks

good to go I'll leave the cover on and I

leave the vents open you get a better

airflow and it just keeps it nice and

even all the way around so the next step

we're gonna do is insert the beer can

this is the beer that I used to fill the

drip pan so it's about half full there's

a little bit of debate as to what kind

of beer to use in a situation like this

I've tried various I haven't really

noticed a difference I usually go with

cheap domestic seems to work out just

fine you're essentially gonna place your

beer down and you're gonna sit that bird

right up on top of that guy as if he

owns it another thing I like to do is I

like to fold the wing tips back just

kind of tuck them back around those tend

to be what burns like so like he's

chilling so now we're gonna move the

bird onto the grill I like to use a

spatula and tongs get that spatula right

up underneath there you're gonna place

it right above that drip pan that we've

prepared now this guy's gonna stand up

basically like a tripod on that beer and

those two legs this takes about usually

about an hour to an hour and a half more

lowered down we're not gonna check back

on this guy for about 15 minutes at this

point we would chill

it's been about 15 minutes this is one I

usually will give it a rotate check to

see how the coals are doing make sure

that we're keeping good at temperature

in there since it's on there for about

an hour I usually do every 15 minutes

about a quarter turn see got a nice good

range of motion there and then you know

that keeps things all even we'll check

back in about another 15 one thing you

don't want to be doing is opening this

thing up every five minutes make sure

it's cool or take a picture and

Instagram it or some but more yet

more you open it the more heat you lose

so you just want to you know be patient

and let it cook it's been about another

15 minutes so we're gonna give this guy

another quarter turn again this goes

back to another one of those disputes

about whether the beer does anything a

lot of people say that the the internal

temperature of the chicken cannot make

the beer get appropriate temperature to

evaporate or some garbage like that but

you definitely end up with a little less

than you put in so whether it does

something or not this technique in

general usually comes out with pretty

satisfactory results this is about 45

minutes in total 15 minutes from the

last time we turned it so we're gonna

give her another turn and it's starting

to look pretty good

hey that's getting fat getting crispy I

mean I usually suggest you buy yourself

that six-pack because you're gonna put

one in the chick and you're definitely

gonna enjoy the next five so it's been

an hour now is a good time if you're

going to check the temperature and the

best place to check that is in the side

as close to the bone as you can get 167

and climbing we're at 171 which is

pretty good in my book if you don't have

a thermometer a good thing to do is if

you want to poke it and if the juices

run out and they're clear that's usually

a good sign that you're in a good place

the juices run out and they're red or

bloody or they're white or some other

garbage I keep it on for a little longer

alright so we're gonna take the bird off

now we're gonna let it rest for at least

10 minutes before we decide to get

Carver up

I like to let it rest upright with the

beer still in it it's a nice little

display place you know if you got people

over you can show it off looks cool so

now this is rested we're ready to remove

the can from the depths of this bird and

cover up removing the can is kind of a

sloppy situation I usually just kind of

go right in and five bucks to drink that

I usually kind of take the legs thighs

and wings off and then I just carved

down in the breastbone take them breasts

off hole and then I'll slice the breast

to try something breast there that's

pretty good nice and juicy crispy skin

so I can really ask for so there you

have it beer can chicken pretty simple

pretty foolproof it's a nice little

spectacle people love it and it tastes

great too

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