How to Cook Beer Can Chicken

Need a fun and unique barbecue dish for your next outdoor party? Try cooking beer can chicken. It's not difficult to learn how to cook beer can chicken properly with the right ingredients and techniques. You can cook the beer can chicken in the oven or prepare it over the grill. Whichever method you choose, you will wow your guests with this unique dish.

Ingredients You Will Need:
2 roasting chickens
2 cans of beer
2 tablespoons butter
½ cup soy sauce
1 tablespoons ketchup
Coarse salt and pepper
Dried parsley
Fresh rosemary and basil
Lime

Rub each chicken with butter, coarse salt, pepper and dried parsley. Let the chickens sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes.Pour ½ the can of beer into a bowl or sprayer with the soy sauce and ketchup. Add a few sprigs of rosemary and basil as well as a good squeeze of fresh lime juice in the can with the remaining beer.

Sit the chicken on the can of beer. The can will stabilize the chicken to be roasted vertically. This method of roasting will result in a moist, tender chicken and be less fatty. Only about �" inch of the beer will be visible.Place on a very hot grill and roast for about two hours. Stir the beer, soy sauce and ketchup until blended. Spray or brush on the beer mixture every 20 minutes.

Be very careful removing the chicken and beer can from the grill. It's best to use oven mitts and a pair of tongs to remove the beer can because it will be extremely hot.