Indirect grilling is a barbecue cooking technique in which the food is placed to the side of the heat source instead of directly over the flame as is more common. This can be achieved by only igniting some burners on a gas barbecue or by piling coals to one side of a charcoal pit. A drip tray is placed below the food to prevent fat from the food igniting and generating a direct flame.A variation of indirect grilling is to place a plank or an unperforated tray on the grill as a base upon which to cook. A soaked wooden board or plank can impart its own flavour to the food.In the 1990s it became popular to use an open can of beer or other canned beverage as a flavouring agent when indirect grilling. The contents of the can boil and flavour the food with the consequent vapour. Beer Can Chicken and Orange Soda Duck are dishes that use this technique. Half the liquid is used to soak flavouring wood chips, which are tossed on the coals, and the rest stays in the can, which is stuffed into the bird cavity and used as a stand.

Dress up your beer butt chicken with our new ceramic drunk chicken heads! Just pop them on top of your chicken before cooking or you can even add them to a store bought rostisserie to dress it up

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Sure, you can BBQ chicken. You can marinate it, rub it, baste it, grill it, and smoke it. But beer butt chicken... there's a bit of a change for you. If you have not heard of this, or tried it, it may sound strange. But, a lot of people have been preparing chicken this way for quite some time.

Beer Butt Chicken - How Can That Be Anything But Good?

Good bubbles, aka champagne, is a wine that can be enjoyed in almost any setting, with almost any food. It can sipped on its own of course, or with oysters, with lobster bisque, with a fresh green salad, with caviar, with buffalo wings (yep, try it instead of a beer), with chicken, with fish, with steak (yep, try it instead of a beer), a burger.