Small Potatoes Make The Steak Look Bigger

This turns out to be more gimmicky than what I had actually hoped for despite knowing in advance already, how it would taste. This beer butt chicken which requires pre-order from Blooies (21 Science Park Road #01-01, The Aquarius, Science Park II) is something that caught my attention a pretty long time back when I first visited them. I've been planning to try it out for the longest time and now that I've finally had it, I would say that it's expensive for a chicken ($38) without really that much of a special taste in it to boot.

How this chicken claimed to be done is that the bird goes through a day of marination from the pre-order and an opened can of beer is inserted up the behind before it's cooked. Going along with the logical concept that the beer would actually evaporate and infuse the meat in the chicken with it's flavor. After the chicken is cooked, the kitchen brings it out for display before chopping up the bird into more manageable pieces in a huge bowl along with their cajun fries. The beer that was used was actually Kilkenny. What you get is a pretty decent roasted chicken, without any beer flavor. The taste of the saltish and semi spicy marinate is actually quite flavorful on the skin, so I had specially popped a couple of the pieces of the meat sans skin just to try to catch any different taste that separates it from a regular roasted chicken. I've been told by a friend not to expect much out of it, so I wasn't really disappointed at the outcome. I just needed to convince myself by eating it.