Easy Beer Can Chicken

Easy Beer Can Chicken

 

This recipe is so easy it is sure to become your favorite way to cook your chicken this summer, that is unless you have a rotisserie kit, we love our rotisserie chicken too!

Prep: 30 min. + chilling
Grill: 1-1/4 hours + standing
Yields: 6 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon ground mustard
  • 1 broiler/fryer chicken (3-1/2 to 4 pounds)
  • 1 can (12 ounces) beer

Directions

  1. In a small bowl, mix the first 7 ingredients. With fingers, carefully loosen skin from chicken; rub seasoning mixture under and over skin. Tuck wings under chicken. Refrigerate, covered, 1 hour.
  2. Completely cover all sides of an 8- or 9-in. baking pan with foil. Place a beer-can chicken rack securely in pan. Remove half of the beer from can. Using a can opener, make additional large holes in top of can; place can in rack.
  3. Stand chicken vertically on rack; place on grill rack. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours or until a thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh reads 170°-175°.
  4. Carefully remove pan from grill; tent chicken with foil. Let stand 15 minutes before carving.

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