Black Cherry Bourbon Chicken

steveo32

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• Oct 12, 2012

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Thanks for the warm welcome guys, I smoked some chicken leg quarters today. I put a chimney starter full of charcoal and put that to one side, put charcoal on the other side from the bag. Never had any problems with keeping the temp up, after 3 hrs the inter temp of the chicken was 170. I only added charcoal once, and my smoker is still burning 3 hrs later. Apparently I used to much charcoal. How much charcoal should I use? The chicken turned out great ill add some pics later.

 

steveo32

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• Oct 13, 2012

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• Oct 13, 2012

I marinaded it overnight in mcCormick Mesquite, then sprayed it with apple juice and red stag black cherry bourbon mixture about every hour.  The skin was surprisingly sweet and no burnt taste despite the dark color, I have read that some people cut the skin off so teh flavor can soak into the meat better is that something I should do next time?

 

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• Oct 13, 2012

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That chicken looks Awesome Steveo!!!

 

DanMcG

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• Oct 13, 2012

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Red Stag is one of my favorites, I'll have to give that a try some time......it looks awesome!

 

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• Oct 14, 2012

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Chicken looks great and I like your taste in Avatars...JJ

 

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• Oct 14, 2012

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Steveo,welcome. I misseed your entrance and the nice looking Yardbird you produced. now that you've got a conquest ubder your belt , you're hooked. You now have O.S.D. (Obsessive Smoking Disorder).

Have fun with it and...

 

Last edited: Oct 14, 2012

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• Oct 14, 2012

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Good job !

 

steveo32

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• Oct 15, 2012

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Thanks everyone,  You are right, I am absolutely hooked.  I have read quite a bit on here about smoking and about my ECB and was surprised it was alot easier than I thought it would be to maintain the cooking temp.