The Great Pressure Cooker Recipe Test of 2012 - Beer Can Chicken

Recipe Origin - Hip Pressure Beer Can Chicken
On this recipe I will confess that I didn't do a bunch of measuring and cyphering of my pressure cooker capacity or measuring of the various chickens in the store to be sure it would fit.  Instead I simply looked for the smallest chicken I could find at the store.  Not an easy task in today's steroided up meat dept of your local grocery store.  NO, we don't do the organic route, but we do spent the extra $ for SmartChicken - it doesn't have the added water.  We have found there is a real taste difference and we can actually use less chicken in recipes because it has more flavor.

Above is after browning.  I accidentally knocked some of the browned skin loose getting it out of the pan so I could de-glaze the pan and then again putting it back in.

Getting it shoved down onto the beer can meant more browned skin got knocked off.  I had to wrestle with it a bit on the outside and in of the chicken to get it to fit completely down over the beer can and thus the second beer...ehm...for support!  Afterward I thought of the "mini" beer cans that I have seen on occasion.   Those are like the mini pop cans of Coke and Pepsi that are out there but mini Coors light and Budlight.  I wondered at the time what the heck do you do with kid sized beer other than the obvious....This would be the perfect place to use those mini cans.  However, I would want full Coors or Bud (no diet) at the very least for flavor.  I wonder if they make kid sized import beers?  Hums?

Above is what it looked like after 23 mins.  The chicken had basically separated in half but that was ok with us.  It saved me cutting it up into chunks.

Sorry for the blurry pic

Results, Findings, Thoughts, Yum Factor
The chicken had fantastic flavor.  It was moist but still had texture.  The fact that it fell apart worked really well as we could easily grab a leg/thigh combo or cut off a chuck of the breast.  Really good.  The broth in the bottom was equally as flavorful and I poured it over the leftovers to keep those moist.  I enjoyed leftover Beer Can Chicken for lunch two days following.