What the hell is

Beer Butt Chicken?

     That's what I asked myself when my buddy Ruben brought up the subject, over a few beers. What it is, is a whole chicken cooked over charcoal or wood with an open beer can stuck up its rear. The beer vaporizes and soaks into the meat making it very moist and very tasty. 

     This style of cooking has been around for some time, but it didn't get popular until John Madden included it in a tailgating cookbook in 1999. Necessity is the mother of invention, and who doesn't like good barbeque chicken? I sought to build a holder that would work best for me.

     There are all kinds of receipes and chicken holders out on the market, so I decided to experiment and improve on a good idea. What I came up with is a "secret" receipe and an "industrial strength" chicken holder  (below is a picture of my holder in action). Keep in mind that this baby won't fit in every BBQ pit, but if you have at least 10 inches of space over your grill, this is the accessory that you just gotta have! For those of you that enter BBQ contests, you need to know that my buddies and I took third place, in chicken, at a 2005 brisket cookoff in San Marcos, Texas.

     That was the very first time we tried to cook Beer Butt Chicken! Anyway, some of the advantages of my holder are:

(a) it's heavy duty. 

(b) it can hold two chickens at once. 

(c) two ergonomic handles that make transporting easy.

(d) my patented "spike", guaranteed  to hold the chicken upright. 

(e) and my "secret" receipe.