Chicken on a Throne

I BBQ’d two chickens on Sunday, using the Chicken on a Throne recipe. (Do you do this in a CS unit?) Very cool. I recommend it just for the oddity. Basically, you take a beer can half full of beer and other aromatic goodies, and you stuff that can up that chicken where the sun don’t shine. Then you put the bird on the grill, where it stands upright, resting on the beer can. I did two at once. They stood together at attention, like a small platoon…plump, headless soldiers, awaiting a smoky fate.
The BBQ writers, Jamison and Jamison say this recipe is “…the best way to cook a whole chicken ever invented in America.” How about that?!
These were well cared for chickens: I brined them overnight, using the Bigwheel brine that Smokin posted (thanks Smokin). Then I coated them in mayo as Smokin suggested (thanks Smokin); then I put on a rub; then I made a mop (baste?). The beer in the cans simmers and steams up the inside of the birds. Used cherry wood. Went 4 hrs at about 220* . Highly satisfactory results. Fabulous. I think that brine is a very fine thing.
I learned one other thing with these birds. Only a Redneck Highly Untrained serves the chicken before the Bud can has been removed from its backside. Acarriii