Smoked Faux-b-que Beer Can Chicken With Cola Bbq Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• mesquite smoker wood chips, 2-3 handfulls
• 1 roasting chicken
• 1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup smoked paprika
• 3 tablespoons fresh ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon mesquite powder, i use mccormick grill mates (not a powder but zaar thinks so)
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon ground red chili pepper, d'arbol
• 3 fresh garlic cloves
• 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
• 1 cup coke
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon mesquite liquid smoke
• 3 tablespoons heinz 57 steak sauce
• 1 teaspoon onion flakes
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 mix the dry ingredients for the rub. you'll have extra for next time.
• 3 rinse & pat dry the chicken setting aside giblets, etc. for another use.
• 4 liberally season the chicken with the rub inside & out as well as gently pulling open a pocket in at the base of the neck over each breast & adding rub.
• 5 pop the tab of a regular size can of beer, i use bud. pour half the beer into the broiler pan with the chips and stuff 3 cloves garlic & 2 sprigs fresh rosemary into the can, spoon about a teaspoon of the rub into the can as well & then push the bird down onto it so that it sits snugly. you'll want the chicken to sit upright over the upright can (i only add this because a certain friend of mine asked how i kept the beer from spilling out when i laid the chicken down, it's okay, she's blonde).
• 6 after 30 minutes turn oven up to 400 degrees so chips smoke.
• 7 about 15 minutes before the chicken is done combine the sauce ingredients & bring to a boil until it reduces to about 1/4. serve with chicken.
• 8 i have a rack that i can insert the can into that holds the bird up but you can place a pie dish over the chips & balance the chicken & can to make it more stable if you don't have a rack (sold through cabella's).
• 9 roast in oven for about an hour. i've tried lower temperatures but 400 makes the chips smoke & that's what you want.
• 10 to remove chicken i slice up the belly so it comes more easily off the can ~ can will be extremely hot so be careful!
• 11 enjoy.