Video: Types of Beer for Beer-Can Chicken

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Learn how to make beer-can chicken from a simple recipe in this free American cooking video.

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Hi, I'm Anne Mooney, I'm a personal chef in Orlando and Winter Park, Florida and I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village to talk about beer can chicken. Now what we have here is plain old chicken from the grocery store, which I've brined overnight and then rubbed with olive oil and an herb rub. It's actually paprika, salt and pepper, and we are now going to prepare to put this chicken on the beer can; hence the name of the dish. Now, as you can see I'm using here a can of Budweiser beer. You can use any cheap beer as long as it is in a can this size, just the normal old beer can. And what you do is open up the can and pour about the top 1/4 out of the can. Because what you want to have happen on the grill if for the beer to steam and it will steam and add moisture to this chicken. So, any kind of beer will do as long as it is just plain old American beer, don't spend a lot of money on it. Now, we're just about ready to up end this chicken. And you will see that this chicken fits magically right on to this beer. The size of chicken you want to use for this is between 3 and 4 pounds. Don't get anything bigger than 4 pounds. So, here we have the chicken suspended on this beer can. We're going to put him in a pan like that, tuck his wing back in, and the next step is to put him on the grill.