Garside Fruit Farm Beer Can Chicken

Here are instructions of how to make cook your own Beer Can Chicken.

We have used a eight pound Garside's Fruit Farm Free Range Chicken, one can of beer, our own Garside's Fruit Farm Apple Wood for the smoker.

Then place the chicken over the beer can in the stand. I then put a rub on the chicken. The rub is just a mixture of different spices that I chose. I mix all the spices together in a bowl and after rubbing a bit of olive oil over the chicken I gently rub the spices into the chicken.

I then place the chicken on a preheated BBQ with the apple wood in the pre-soaked smoker box. Water was added to the bottom of the pan the chicken sits in to keep the chicken moist. Often beer boils over and adds to the water.

The baking time is similar to baking in the oven, perhaps a little faster. I keep the BBQ between 400 to 425 degrees, and cook 15 mins per pound. Until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165F.

Finally we have a delicious moist chicken dinner. This is a relatively easy way to prepare a roast chicken with little clean up required, and especially great for the summer as you do not have to turn on your oven!

If you have any questions on our chickens or how to make a Beer Can Chicken please do not hesitate to contact us. If you would like to order any of our delicious Garside's Fruit Farm Free Range Chickens they are available now, for $3.50 per pound. Average size is around eight pounds, with some larger and a few smaller available.

You can contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or via phone at 604.556.4273.

SOLD OUT!

We are completely SOLD OUT of our Sour Cherries already. We had very limited quantities this year due to the weather.

The next fruit to be ready will be our Crab Apples. These little apples are great for Jellies, Jams, baking and wine! Get your orders in soon to ensure you get the quantity you desire. These are available for $1.00 per pound.

Next will be Bartlett Pears, these are sooo delicious for eating, canning, wine, baking or creating our delicious Peppery Pear Salsa with (I will repost the recipe in the next few days). These pears will be available for $0.75 per pound.

Our wonderful Bramley Apples will be ready after that, these are the best baking apples in the world! They are large, firm and tart, great for pies, crisps or even mixed to make a great cider.

We are sad to say that we do not think we will be able to offer U-pick Hazelnuts this year, being such a wet spring/early summer we believe it has resulted in a very poor hazelnut year. :( We will keep you posted though.

We will be offering U-pick Blackberries this summer though, dates to come!

Our famous Garside's Fruit Farm Chickens are ready and are delicious. They are available for $3.50 per pound. These chickens are fed a top quality, locally produced grain, allowed access to a pasture outside and given no hormones or antibiotics. The average size of the bird is about 8 pounds this batch. I will be posting a recipe and instructions of how to do a Garside's Fruit Farm Beer Can Chicken later this week.

If you have any questions about any of our products, or would like to order anything, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or by phone at 604.556.4273.

Summer is Here!

Summer has finally arrived, and the trees are looking great. :)

We will be starting to pick our Sour Cherries very soon. These will be available for $3.00 per pound, and we have very limited quantities.

After sour cherries we will be picking our Crab Apples in August. These little apples are perfect for jams, jellies, spreads, desserts and wine. They will be available for $1.00 a pound.

Following the crab apples our highly coveted Gravenstein Apples will be ready. These apples are available for $1.25 per pound, we highly recommend pre-ordering these apples as we sell out very quickly.

Our Bartlett Pears will also be ready in August. These will be available for $0.75 per pound.

Available right now are our free range roasting chickens!! These delicious chickens are fed a top quality, locally produced feed, have access to outside pasture and are given no antibiotics or hormones. The chickens are available for $3.50 a pound, and the average size is about seven pounds (although we have some smaller and larger available). These chickens are very delicious, and work perfectly for beer can chicken on the bbq!

Once again this year we will be offering U-pick blackberries and U-pick hazelnuts. We will be posting more information regarding these events later in the summer.

Garside's Fruit Farm does offer a delivery service. For the Abbotsford/Mission area the fee is $5.00 and no minimum order is required. For Greater Vancouver/Area the fee is $20.00 with a minimum order of $20.00. If you make a $100.00 or more order your delivery is free!

If you would like to order anything or just have questions, please do not hesitate to drop us a line at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or 604.556.4273. We look forward to hearing from you!

Spring has FINALLY arrived!

Spring has arrived at the Garside's Fruit Farm. We have some trees in blossom and the bee's are buzzing.

The first fruits that will be ready at the farm will be our Sour Cherries then our Crab Apples. The Sour Cherries are ripe in July and the Crab Apples are ready in August.

Our next batch of chickens will be ready in mid June. The chickens are free range, fed a top quality local grain free of hormones and antibiotics.

If you have any questions, or would like to pre-order any of our products, please feel free to contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or phone at 604.556.4273.

Winter Update!

I hope everyone had a terrific festive season! At Garside's Fruit Farm we had a great holiday season. Currently the farm is covered in a beautiful blanket of snow, and we are expecting more this evening.

Over the next few months we will be pruning and preparing for the 2011 Fruit Season. If you have any questions or pre-orders for fruit please do not hesitate to contact us, via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or 604.556.4273. Also check our website for updates.

We do still have our roasting chickens available. They are $3.50 per pound. We will be getting more chicks to raise likely in February so we should have no lag between availability of chickens.

Hope everyone enjoys the winter weather for the next few days!

Roasting Chickens :)

We still have our Free Range, Roasting Chickens available. Our roasting chickens are delicious, and were fed a top quality - no hormone or animal by-product, locally produced grain from Ross Down Farms in Abbotsford, they had access to outside pasture.

Our chickens are available for $3.50 per pound. We do offer delivery to Vancouver for a fee, however if you have a order over $100.00 we offer free delivery service.

We are now sold out of all our apples. If you would like to be put on the list for any of our products for next year, please contact us and we will add you to the list.

Roasting Chickens!!

Our Roasting Chickens are ready, and delicious! The average size of this batch is about six or so pounds with some larger and some smaller available. They have been professionally processed and flash frozen. They were fed a top quality grain made locally by Ross Down Farms here in Abbotsford, the feed contains no Animal By-Products, Hormones or Antibiotics. The chickens were allowed to run free outside in their own pasture.

Our Free Range Roasting Chickens are available for $3.50 per pound.

We also have available Boskoop Apples and Gloster Apples, both available for $1.25 per pound. These are both great winter apples, delicious and crisp for eating but also perfect for baking with. These apples should keep well through the New Year as long as they are kept in a cool, dry location in your home.

There are still a few Bramley Windfall Apples left if anyone is interested, they are available for $0.60 per pound (regular price is $1.25 per pound).

Coming soon are Northern Spy Apples, which will be available for $1.25 per pound.

Also available are Zucchini's for $0.75 each and Buttercup and Kabocha Squash for $0.75 per pound.

Garside's Fruit Farm does also offer a delivery service to anywhere in the Fraser Valley and Vancouver area for a fee. Although all orders over $100 receive free delivery.

If you have any questions, or would like to place an order with us, please do not hesitate to contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or call 604.556.4273!