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I brined and smoked a butt for the super bowl get together i was going to. I tried something a bit different with the brine, on top of my normal salt, pepper, thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, onion and garlic powder, i also added crushed red pepper, cayenne pepper, and about 1/4 bottle of crown royal. Let it cook a bit, simmer for awhile pulling all the flavors out of the herbs and brined it for about 18hours.

This was all in prep for not doing traditional bbq sandwhiches, we were doing pulled pork tacos. Anyway, the brine worked amazingly well. It had some flavor from the crown and me and the host that knew what was in it could pick it out immediately in the meat, and it was good. Im shocked at how good it was.

it smoked for about 12 hours btw, left it a tad underdone, (pulled and wrapped in foil at 160) since it was going to be reheated the next day.. we cut it up and finished it in the oven at the host house. I threw a few friends on teh smoker while I was at just because i had the room and it ended up being my dinner saturday lol.

anyway, PICS!