So I got through it and quite successfully but not without a few problems. First of all - no Queview, sorry forgot to take pix as I went..... just not something I'm used to. Now on to how things went down:
--On Thursday night rubbed the 9# beast with Olive oil, equal amts CBP/Salt/Brn Sugar and then a mixture of cayenne, onion pwdr, garlic pwdr and grnd mustard
-- Took it out of reefer at 900 pm friday, loaded the 22.5
WSM with 1 sm chimney of Royal Oak mesquite lump ( I personally don't like RO but I'm trying to burn down my supply), 1 lg chimney KF brickettes and set fire to a large chimney of Best of the West Mesquite lump and then dumped into the
WSM about 1030 PM with vents open 100%-- anybody see a problem here yet!!
-- At 1100 PM the fire was still climbing thru 350 and I shut the vents down all the way. At 1130 the temp was dropping thru 280 and it seemed a good time to put the beast on. I put a medium sized foil pan on the lower grill to catch dripin`s and open the vents to 50%, throw in 6 lumps of dry pecan and mesquite and observe. After loading the beast grill temp was 234 and meat temp was 68.
-- At 0000 the grill was HOT at 270 so I shut the vents to 25%, went to bed and hoped for the best.
--0300 - grill temp is 289 meat is 178 -- Not happy. toss in 1/2 the amount of smoking wood, contemplate foiling, say screw it, close vents to 15% and go back to bed.
--0600 - grill is 270 meat is 207.......boy oh boy won't those numbers jump you out of bed!!!!!! I do a tenderness poke test with a Homedics pen themo and get different readings that range between 196 - 203 and most of the roast is tender but I think I can leave it for a little while.
-- check temps and tenderness every 1/2 hour and pull it off at 0730. Quadruple wrap in foil, wrap with a towel and into the faux cambro it goes.
--Slicing at 500 PM and it is fall apart tender and slightly juicy. I made a side sauce of tomato sauce, fat and brown bits from the dripin`s 1/2 hand full of the leftover rub, butter, beef broth and wooster. Everybody was happy and I was ecstatic since I now seem to have beat the beast known as BRISKET!!
Thanks to all who have passed on their lore within these electronic pages and to those who messaged me. I couldn't have gotten here without you.
Can't wait to try it again next week!!!!!!!!!