Beer Can Chicken {3 of 10}

This is another one of the top 10 favourite dishes in our house ... Beer Can Chicken.

It is honestly such an easy way to cook chicken and it always turns out super moist thanks to the beer and tastes great. It can be done on the BBQ or in the oven, which means it can be made throughout the year. Add some mini garlic roasted potatoes and sesame seed roasted Brussels sprouts in the oven and away you go. The entire meal is made in the oven ... super easy dinner and it helps warm up the house in the winter [and saves on power too, since the oven is already on to roast the chicken]. Usually we make this meal on the weekend and Byron looks after the chicken, but for this particular day that the following pictures were taken, it was my first time making beer can chicken and I just had to snap some pics.

First you need to get your chicken ready to be cooked. Squeeze some lemon juice all over it and then sprinkle some garlic powder on the inside and all over the outside.

Assemble the holder [we bought ours at Crapy Tire opps sorry I mean Canadian Tire when it was on sale], and put the beer can inside [we just use cheap beer & we empty about half the can]. Then sit the bird on top and close off the top of the bird so the steam doesn't escape while it is cooking.

Depending on the size of the bird depends how long it needs to be in the oven for. Our birds are usually about 4 lbs so we have it on for about 1 1/2 hours at 350°F. If it stays on longer it's no big deal, it won’t dry out. We always put a round Pyrex underneath to catch all the fat that drips off the chicken.  A lot of the chicken fat falls off when it is cooking and the chicken isn't sitting reabsorbing the fat - which is nice.

I had to share the image that was on the beer can. I think Byron grabbed this type specifically because of the pinup girl!

That’s how we prepare our beer can chicken. Do you have a specific recipe you follow?