Beer Can Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 1/2-4 lbs chicken
• 1 can beer (your choice, i prefer to use heinekin)
• salt and pepper
• sage
• garlic granules, to taste

Recipe

• 1 preheat barbecue.
• 2 carefully place chicken onto to open beer can (you may cut the top off the can of beer if you wish).
• 3 rub the salt, pepper, sage and garlic onto the outside of chicken.
• 4 for those who like extra garlic, either half or quarter some cloves of garlic; using a knife, slice some little holes all over the bird and stuff the garlic into those holes.
• 5 carefully place your chicken with the beer can in its cavity onto the grill.
• 6 to help balance it, pull the legs of the chicken slightly forward to rest on the grill.
• 7 cook the chicken on low-medium heat for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until skin is crisp and the juices run clear.
• 8 remove with tongs and let the chicken sit for about 10-15 minutes until the chicken and beer can is cool enough to handle.
• 9 once chicken is cooled, remove from beer can (discard beer can and any left over contents) and slice up bird as you ordinarily would.