Comments on: Beer Butt Chicken Recipe

By: JJTrouble

JJTrouble — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:10:14 +0000

Sorry, not a sports fan. Single Mom.

I searched the internet for a simple recipe because I got the beer can holder as a gift (http://www.barbecuegrillsandmore.com/asp/superbrowse.asp?clid=534&caid=&sku=CCH1034&refid=XT248-CCH1034) and wanted to us it to cook the chicken in the oven instead of the barbeque – during this latest blizzard.

I changed the recipe because we were (OH NO!) out of beer (and it was a blizzard)…so I cleaned out a beer can and half-filled it with a inexpensive Chardonnay white wine. I had some left-over oven-roasted garlic that I mashed together with fresh rosemary, thyme, sage, fresh-ground pepper and sea salt. Then I added extra-virgin olive oil to the pasty herb mixture and rubbed it inside and out of the chicken. (I put a sprig of rosemary, thyme and sage into the chardonnay in the can as well.)

Put the jar on the stand and the chicken butt over the whole thing and for the rest…followed your oven cooking instructions….6.5lb Roasting chicken took just under 2 hours. It had a built-in popup timer – but they tend to pop-up late and you end up with a dry chicken. Even though it might be difficult to get a really dry chicken cooking this way, your advice to check with the instant thermometer was THE BEST…

The result was cool AND elegant!

By: admin

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:22:49 +0000

@Chris – Can of Foster’s should be big enough for a turkey :)

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:59:41 +0000

Is it possible to use this method to bake a turkey? Has anyone tried?

By: Dave Hubbard

Dave Hubbard — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:43:27 +0000

I use ginger ale or 7 up in place of beer. Works great.

By: pecoslim

pecoslim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:21:45 +0000

trying out beer butt chicken for the first time tonite. its snowing outside so were doing it in the oven. we rubbed the bird down with oil and seasoned with sea salt, corse ground black pepper, and garlic. we plugged the neck hole with a sweet onion and used Coors beer. i drink bottled beer usually so we just used an empty pop can and filled it halfway with Coors. were calling it Coors cornhole chickn. we’ll let ya know how it turn out. oh and to those out there who dont drink beer and don’t want to use beer because they don’t want to consume alchohol… the alchohol cooks off and all yer left with is that delicious beer flavor. so live a little

By: BrixChick_Liza

BrixChick_Liza — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:31 +0000

OMG! I’m riffing on your recipe for a wine club contest and the initial chicken was succulent, inventive and dead easy! Will credit you for base and send you final result! Thanks for great head start!

By: chris

chris — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:51:40 +0000

I made my chicken it was so good I used Bud Light Lime. I have to admit I was out of the red pepper mango jelly so I just used salt and pepper and jalapeno jelly. I had to run out and my hubby burnt the skin. But the meat was so tender and delicious. I have a website, http://www.chriskitchenstow.com. I can only list a few items at a time to sell but you can pay through the site and I will ship any flavor.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:34:19 +0000

@chris red pepper mango jelly basted on a roasting chicken?! OMG that sounds so good…… Problem is that it’s 8AM and I am in the office. This is a problem. Do you have a website where I can buy your jam/jelly?

By: testyminotaur

testyminotaur — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:43:02 +0000

i have made hundreds of beer can chickens .i put damn near every spice in the pantry in them .some good flavors to try is a little pineapple juice and a couple of chicken cubes in the beer .for those of you that dont like beer try sprite or doctor pepper instead.YUMMY

By: chris

chris — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:11:19 +0000

I sell jam and jelly at local farm markets and one of my customers returned last week to buy a supply of red pepper mango jelly to baste beer can chicken. His friends said that was the best way they had tasted so far. I had seen this done on TV but had not tried it. I bought the holder and the chicken and trying it tonight.