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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    Some people say fat side up, fat side down, bone down for an hour then flip.  What do you recommend.  Should I use the minion method as well?
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    Does the Minion method produce too much heat?, I have a brinkman vertical smoker.  By putting coal all the way around like the Minion method shows with the wood on top allow for a nice low heat over a good legnth of time.  This past time I would just toss in heated charcoal every hour or so to...
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    Yeah, I have been to hottingers many times, I didnt know they sold pork shoulders.  I will give them a call, if not I will call sams club later today. 
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    okay great, thanks for all the advice guys.  Really awesome how everyone replies I greatly appreciate it. 
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    It looked like the second one in the picture....thanks guys for all the great response.  I guess I try sams club or stater brothers for another pork shoulder
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    I am in chino hills, near corona.  Thanks guys for all the imput, I will try at different meat market than winco.  It just seemed like the quality wasnt there.  I guess I will just have to not check it every hour.  Do most guys use digital them or standard them?
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    I used standard charcol coals with soaked wood chips.  I guess I must of got a false reading.  Should a butt be trimmed of fat.  I just seamed once I cut into it was pretty fatty.  Not like on the shows were they are dark colored and they just pull apart.  How long should a 6 lbs butt take (9...
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    Smoke my first pork butt, what a disaster!!!!, Please help

    So this weekend I smoked a pork shoulder in my vertical brink-man smoker.  I purchased the pork butt (picnic cut) from Win-co in Southern California, It came in a two pack (6 pounds each with bone in in each of them).  I rubbed them down with mustard, I didn't trim and thing off and marinated...
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