Slow Cooker Beer Can Style Chicken

This recipe mimics the delicious taste of this famous recipe with a slow cooker. The ingredients are simple and easy to find in your pantry, but the taste is complex and finger licking good.

Slow Cooker Beer Can Style Chicken 

Ingredients:
1 6-lb chicken
2 tbsps smoked paprika
2 tsps salt
2 tsps coarse pepper
2 tsps dried oregano leaves
2 tsps dried thyme leaves
1 tsps garlic powder
1 tsps cayenne pepper
1/2 tsps onion powder
2 tbsps butter, softened
1 can dark beer
4 aluminium foil balls

Directions:
Place bunched rolls of foil in bottom of 6-quart slow cooker and pour in beer.
Wash chicken and pat dry. Pull skin gently way from bird.
Mix all dry seasonings together.
Mix 1/2 teaspoon of seasoning blend into butter. Spread butter mixture under skin of chicken. With clean dry hands, rub remaining spice blend onto chicken. Place chicken on top of foil balls in slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 4-6 hours, or low on 7-8 hours. Check the temperature - chicken is done when the temperature is 160-165 in the thickest part of the thigh. Continue to cook if needed.