Beer Butt Chicken

suckaass · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject: Beer Butt Chicken

Made a beer butt chicken for dinner tonight.

This is one of my favorite ways to BBQ chicken

rubbed it down with some oil and rub. Also put some rub in the beer can

after putting the can up it's you-know-what, it's sit nicely on the grill. also I add some apple wood for a nice smoke flavor

1 1/2 hours later

put it together with some homemade pea salad and roasted red potatoes

MMMM. Good Very Happy

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FireTowerBBQ · Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2011 Posts: 99 Location: Louisiana

Looks pretty tasty! We call it drunk chicken around here though. Smile

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zski · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

Man, nice looking bird. What temp did you smoke that at?
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El Ropo · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

Looks more like indirect grilling to me. Nice color on that bird!
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Dr Obvious · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

Looks good
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feldon30 · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

As long as you can get some smoke into it, chicken at 350 or even hotter is the way to go for good skin and flavor. That looks spot-on!
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Inner10 · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

Looks awesome love roasting chicken like that....but the jury is still out on if its a waste of beer or not.

Beertooth · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

Good looking bird! Very Happy

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SVonhof · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

I have done this once and need to do it again. It's really good.

The one time I did it, I cooked two of them fairly low (temp between 230� and 260�) but I think when I do it again, I will get the temps higher, to the 275� range the whole time and see how it does with the skin. It wasn't bad, but it was a little rubbery.
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tinovr · Posted: Apr 14 2011 Post subject:

smart to put the foil under the bird... I did 2 last weekend on my gasser and ended up with one massive grease fire... ended up putting out the fire, and placing a foil roaster under the birds to catch the grease. Embarassed

Birds were salvaged... we weren't eating the skin so the meat inside was still good.
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suckaass · Posted: Apr 15 2011 Post subject:

thanks all.
it made a darn tasty sandwich today too.
zski, 325-350 degrees

Inner10 · Posted: Apr 15 2011 Post subject:

Big Bears BBQ · Posted: Apr 15 2011 Post subject:

Great looking plate.............

BRBBQ · Posted: Apr 16 2011 Post subject:

looking good
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Wolfman74 · Posted: Apr 16 2011 Post subject:

So looks good
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