Smoked Beer Can Chicken {Injected with Flavor}
A great recipe to have some fun on your grill!
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken
- 1 can of beer with half...removed.
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1-2 fresh sprigs of thyme
- 2-3 slices of bacon
- 1 tbs peppercorns
- Basic Chicken Rub
For injection
- 1/2 c apple juice
- 1/2 stick butter
- 2 tbs salt
- 1 tbs hot sauce
- 1 tbs worcestire
Instructions
- First, for injection, combine all ingredients in small pot and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
- For beer can, remove/drink half of beer, then stuff garlic, peppercorns and thyme inside.
- Gently pull skin away from meat with finger, and dump chicken rub underneat skin.
- Dump more rub inside the cavity.
- Place chicken on can of beer so it's standing up.
- Inject both breasts and legs.
- Rub olive oil all over the chicken and sprinkle rub everywhere.
- Stuff half of each bacon slice into the neck, laying the other half down the breasts.
- Smoke using indirect heating at 300 degrees for 1.5 - 2 hours, depending on size of bird.