Super Bowl Barbeque Beer Can Chicken

Ingredients

1              3 to 4 pound whole chicken
1              bottle of your favorite Barbeque Sauce
1              can of cheap beer
1              bottle of your favorite good Beer
4              table spoons of salt
1              medium peeled Onion
1              Stick of regular Butter (optional)

            Wash the thawed chicken with water. Place the chicken in a large bowl or stock pot, put the salt in and cover it with water. Let the chicken marinate in the salt water overnight in the refrigerator. Get the Grill ready for indirect cooking. Optional : Melt the stick of butter in the microwave on medium heat. Use a meat syringe and inject the butter throughout the uncooked chicken.
             Pour the cheap beer on the ground or down the drain. Fill the can half way with the good bottled beer (an ale with lots of flavors works well). Shove the half full can into the cavity of the chicken (up the chicken's butt). Place the chicken on a tray while you are working, can down, legs out so it stands up. Take the onion and shove it into the neck hole of the chicken ( I have seen a lot of folks cook beer can chicken without this step, but this onion trick will catch the beer flavors in the meat making it very moist and flavorful). Pull the skin up over the onion and secure it with a few toothpicks.
             Pour half of the Barbeque sauce over the chicken, pour some of the leftover beer into the barbeque sauce bottle and shake well. Stand the chicken on the side of the grill without the coals or fire and shut the grill. You can cook this in the stove at 350 degrees F if you want, it will work the same way, just use a pan large enough to catch the drippings or save the chicken if it falls over.
            Cook the chicken for about an hour and 15 minutes and make sure the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 180 degrees. Pour the other half of the barbeque  sauce beer mixture over the chicken during the cooking process ( I usually dump some on the chicken about every 15 minutes while cooking). When the chicken is done, remove the can and dig in.