Man Food - Beer Can Chicken

There were about two weeks before Nick started his new job that he had a lot of free time and he did A LOT of cooking.  I asked for him to make a favorite of his that his family often made when we lived at home.

Beer Can Chicken, of course, a man meal for sure.

What you will need:
1 12oz can of Budwesier
1 whole chicken (we used a 5 lb bird)
1/2 pound of bacon
any dry chicken rub (we used applewood bacon rub)

The directions are as follows, dictated my Nicky and typed by me.  Turn the grill medium heat or you can bake in the oven at 400. Rinse the chicken down with water and pat dry. Generously get the dry rub in between the skin and the chick breasts. PAUSE, drink 1 quarter of the can of beer.  Make sure the mouth of the can is open as much as possible and put about a tablespoon of the dry rub into the beer can.  For more flavor put some of the dry rub inside the chicken as well. Place the can in a round deep a two inch deep pan (think brownie pan).  Stuff the bacon into the neck opening of the chicken (ew, told you it was man food, however VERY worth it).  Place the chicken upright on the can like the picture below.  We baked it in the oven for about an hour and a half.  The pictures do not do it justice.  This dish is INCREDIBLE flavorful.  The beer gravy in the pan is indescribable. Nick found me eating with a spoon like soup, just saying.

This is the perfect dinner for a nice fall football Sunday!