Beer Chicken – Dear Vice

august 7, 2006, 12:05pm

Dear Vice,
Grilling is one of those simple
little joys of summer that makes you glad you’re alive. What could be
better than beer and food and friends? Putting the beer in the food
and eating it with friends. My stepdad showed me how to make ‘booze
bird’ a couple years ago & now I’d like to share it with you. It’s
easy, just take one of those little roasters from the super market (I
get the ones that just say ‘young chicken’)…

When you get home clean
it out, rub it down with a lemon and make some seasoning for the
outside. I recommend pepper, crushed or diced onions, a little basil,
and maybe some mustard seeds if you’re feeling spicy, mixed together in
olive oil and rubbed all over the chicken. You can do whatever suits
your taste. Leave the chicken in this seasoning for 20 minutes. Then
take a longneck beer can (use a decent beer or your chicken might taste
like funk), drink half, and jam it right up the chicken’s stuffing
hole. After that just stick it on the grill, and wait about 45 minutes
or until everything looks done. The heat will force the beer out of
the can and it’ll saturate the chicken’s insides with deliciousness.
When it’s done, the bird will be all juicy from being internally soaked
in beer. Plus, it looks really rude and gross. Happy grilling.

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