Recipe: Perfect Beer Can Turkey

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Beer Can Turkey. Pour the beer into a turkey sitter (a ceramic stand that holds liquid). Or open the beer can, pour out a few tablespoons and place in a. Place turkey and can in roasting pan.

Beer Can Turkey Open the can of beer and pour a few ounces out into a cup or into the sink. Set the can in the middle of an aluminum disposable pan and slide the turkey on top. In a large bowl, mix the beer with the pickling spice. You can have Beer Can Turkey using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Beer Can Turkey

  1. Prepare 1 of Turkey.
  2. You need 14 oz of can of beer (like Guinness).
  3. Prepare 5 oz of Savory dried herb mix (e.g. tarragon, rosemary, sage, parsley, thyme).
  4. It's 1/2 tbsp of fresh ground pepper.
  5. Prepare 1/3 oz of fresh ground salt.
  6. You need 1 tsp of cayenne pepper.
  7. You need of honey.
  8. It's of olive oil.

The onion adds incredible flavor to the beer can turkey. Pop open a tall boy and drink half of it down, then insert the can carefully into the turkey's body cavity. Set the turkey on the grill and close the lid. Remove the turkey from the grill, and carefully remove the can.

Beer Can Turkey step by step

  1. Prep the turkey by removing the innards and tucking back the wings. Pat it dry so the rub will stick to it..
  2. Mix the spices with the honey and oil until it is a well mixed paste but not too stiff or too runny.
  3. Take your beer can and remove the entire lid and the nitro ball. You can also mix some of the spices into the can too. Slide the turkey around the can, using the legs and can as a tripod to keep it upright..
  4. Plaster them seasonings all over your bird.
  5. Layer some foil around dat bird and stick it in the oven at 400 for 8 minutes, then lower it to 325 and cook about 2.5 hours. Remove the foil the last 30 minutes to brown the skin up..
  6. Grind up the giblets and turkey juices with the remaining beer and some flour to make your gravy. Mmmmmmm!.

Carefully place the turkey cavity (legs side down) on top of the beer can. Make sure the turkey is upright and standing on its own. Close the lid of the grill and do not open. As you can see, you will also need an aluminum pan and a turkey baster. You see there are no amounts here because it is so simple that we don't need to measure anything out exactly.