I am going yo smoke 6 half chickens tomorrow. Anyone have good rub/mop recipes or other suggestions? Although I like it, getting kinda tired of my old standby recipe.

Brining is a great idea for smoked chicken. Salt and sugar in ice water for a few hours. They come out very moist. I've used some complex rubs but recently have bought the mcCormick chicken rub from the store and it works fine.

When I smoke whole chickens, I like to rub them down with mustard and then slap on pepper and some Tonys. Comes out pretty damn good.

Drink half a can of beer then shove it up the chicken's ass. Keeps it moist and delicious.

Beer butt chicken.

Brine and rub with salt, pepper, old bay, & smoked paprika

Instead of cooking as halves, I now split the whole chicken down the backbone, and cook it primarily with the breast side up. Seems to keep the breast meat more moist, since it is all intact.

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Beer butt chicken.

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Thanks. Decided to buy 2 whole chickens to smoke on the throne and some breast halves for direct heat later on (wife does not like the taste of smoked meat).

Def do the beer butt chicken. I too use the mustard with dry rub sprinkled on top. Buy a couple tall boys, take a few swigs and pour whatever dry rub it is you will be using into the can until you can see it full. Shove that summa gun up its butt n stick it on the grill to smoke. As you rotate your chicken to make sure all sides get cooked baste the chicken with bar b que sauce to keep the skin moist and it leaves a nice sticky bbq coat on the outside when done, looks tremendous, tastes like heaven.

[This message has been edited by ShawnTxAg (edited 7/30/2011 3:44p).]

For sop, here's something that'll get you going, you can add/delete/modify as much as you want: equal parts water & vinegar, a few dashes of worcesterhire sauce and/or soy sauce, a lemon wedge or two (squeezed first), some chopped onion, salt or seasoned salt, course grind pepper, some veg or olive oil, beer, mustard, hot sauce.