Drunk Chicken

Summertime is here. That means bring out the grill, get the wire brush out, and get to cleaning, because it is time to fire that bad boy up. I love everything one can cook on the grill. The only thing I have yet to try is baking cookies on it but I about bet I could get it accomplished.

However, there is one thing that is the ultimate, drunken chicken! It is absolutely to die for but do not die until you try it. After you try it, you will not want to die anyhow. I was turned on to this wonderful delight by a friend of mine named Mary Jo. I was a skeptic at first because I am not one to indulge a lot in alcohol. No fear, you don't have to drink anything first or get drunk before you eat the chicken, nor do you have to get a chicken drunk before cooking it. Picture it, chasing down a chicken, taking a funnel and shoving it down it's beak, and then pouring beer down it's throat till it's running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. No, you do not have to go to that extreme.

It really is quite simple.
You will need:

One or more roasting chickens depending upon the size of your grill and the amount of mouths you want to feed or if you just want leftovers.

A can beer; whichever brand floats your boat, it does not matter. (One can per chicken)

Now, here is where you can get fancy or make me fall in love with you. Your choice, you can season the outside of the chicken as you please, lemon pepper, Lawyers, Montreal Chicken seasoning (Very good by the way! Made by McCormick's Grill Mates) or to make me fall in love with you, drape that bad boy chicken with bacon. Now that is the absolute very best you can get! I do not go by Baconator for no reason.

Now for the assembly; easier than the last toy you bought for your kid, guaranteed.

Open your can of beer and you get your chicken. (Of course after you done all the cleaning stuff recommended by Public Health and USDA). Put the chicken over the can of beer (With the beer still in it of course!) so the beer can is holding the chicken up. Yes, it can be done; you may have to pry the legs apart some and stretch that cavity out a little, but you can do it. Promise!

With the chicken in an upright position on the beer, you can season it to taste, or better yet, make me fall in love with you and drape that bad boy with BACON.

Get your coals ready on that grill, place the chicken on the beer can, up right of course, on that grill and let that baby cook. It will be a golden brown and the legs looking like they are going to fall off when it is done. Let me tell you, once you rip a piece of that meat off you will be hooked just like me.

The beer keeps the chicken so moist. Now, if you do not have beer lying around (like me, more often then not) you can use Pepsi or Coke as well. Even Dr. Pepper is good. Then you would not call it Drunken Chicken; not sure what you would want to call it then, maybe Hyped Chicken?

I have included some pictures for a visual to help you in your grilling of the ultimate drunken chicken and to get those taste buds watering!

Anyone who goes for the bacon draped drunken chicken, holler at the Baconator!