The perfect gift and an essential addition to every grill jockey's library, Beer Can Chicken presents 75 must-try beer-can variations and other offbeat recipes for the grill, each with one criterion--it's got to have a Wow! factor.

Wow! means Saigon Chicken with Lacquered Skin and Spicy Peanut Sauce. Root Beer Game Hens. Beer-Can Turkey. Wow! means Stoned Chicken (it's cooked under a brick), Dirty Steak, Fish on a Board (Salmon with Brown Sugar Glaze), Mussels Eclade--grilled under pine needles. Wow! means Potatoes Roasted in the Embers, Grilled Eggs, Wacky Ramaki, Rotisseried Garlic Rolls--even Grilled Yellow Pepper Soup.

Whether on a can, on a stick, under a brick, in a leaf, on a plank, or in the embers, each grilling technique is explained in easy-to-follow steps, with recipes that guarantee no matter how crazy the technique, the results are always outstanding. So pop a cold one and have fun.