What I want to know is, doesn't the paint come off the beer can and contaminate the chicken?

Also, what does anybody do with the rest of the Budweiser?

Re: "Funny but I have long wondered how you used those covers, being a Brit I assumed they were to keep rain off."

Yes, rain as well as snow, hail, sleet, and the ubiquitous pink insulation which is scattered about the realm by tornadoes.