After a recent trip to Kraftwork, I realized two very interesting phenomena happening.

#1 Hipsters love country cookin‘.

#2 People are obsessed with eating chicken that like to take it up the butt, well, take beer cans up the butt that is.  

Ok, before you get all, "oh, i like food blogs, but he’s talking about chicken anal sex "!  I’m innocent, I swear.

I innocently enjoyed a sandwich called "Beer Can Chicken Sandwich"  That made me think of the time my mom made Coke Can Chicken (ps, i made fun of her for this unorthodox method when she told me about it).   Oy, I digress, back to me being innocent.  Anyway, I began to wonder, "Is this beer can chicken ‘a thing’ "?  When I get to wonderin’, the first thing I do is …. GOOGLE!   Low and behold, the 5th search result was titled "Beer in the Butt Chicken – Beer Can Chicken Recipes".  My eyes popped out of my head, "there’s the title to my blog post!" (This is when my defense attorney would say, "Your honor, I give you exhibit A) – SEE I’M INNOCENT!

The best search result was "the good ole boy griller" who offers a step by step instruction on grilling a beer can chicken in his Youtube video.  Here, see for yourself Beer Can Chicken Barbeque.

Let me get back to the food!  This chicken sandwich that I ate at Kraftwork was so delicious.  Really tender, great flavor and oh so juicy!  My mouth is watering right now as I think about how good it was!  I needed to find out, what’s up with this can in the butt phenomenon?   After extensive GOOGLE research, bubba videos and double entendre website links.  I’ve come to find out that there is a method to the madness of a chicken taking it up the butt (and it’s not deep breathing and various other relaxation techniques)!  Baking, grilling or smoking a chicken that has had a tin can filled with, in this case beer, inserted into its butt, then cooked while sitting on that can has a profound effect on the overall flavor of the bird!  The moisture from the beer evaporates and helps to keep the chicken meat moist and tender!  While the yeast and the malt are rumored to react with the skin, somehow making it thinner?  I also discovered a few other suggestions besides beer:  crab boil, wine, in fact Linda Louise (my momma) used Coke.

With Autumn upon us and winter’s nip just around the corner, when you get a hankering for some warm comfort food, consider baking a chicken with a beer can in its butt!