Column: Beer Can Chicken

I really enjoy beer.

I also enjoy roasting chicken.

Once I figured I could combine the two, I was happy for about a week and could not wait to make “beer can chicken” for the first time.

I was flipping through channels on a cooking show and could not believe what I was watching. I had occasionally cooked a kielbasa in beer but had never made it a star of the show in a dish. Before I tried to adapt the recipe that was used on television, I went over to a friend’s house and watched him attempt to do “beer can chicken” on his grill. That chef might have had too many beers, and tha...