Throwing one on!

YukonRon

Got a prime brisket, going on at 225F. Smoking with pecan, rubbed with my mix.
SPOG, Chilli Powder' smoked paprika, cayenne and a bit of brown sugar. Injected with beef broth, garlic juice, onion juice, whatsthisheresauce. See what happens.....

YukonRon

Did I mention I am deploying back up for this cook?

johnmitchell

Good luck and enjoy Ron.. Looking forward to seeing the progress on the kitchen upgrade. Have a great weekend my friend..

Eggaroo

You will be eating good this weekend. Looking forward to the results. 

Killit_and_Grillit

Game on.  Looks like the start of a great weekend.  Evan Williams on the rocks though? Whew, you are a brave man. I had to stop drinking that after college. Maybe it was a quantity control issue. 

saluki2007

Looking good so far Ron.  Will be standing by.

GrillSgt

Nothing like a good bourbon soup with ice croutons.

YukonRon

johnmitchell said:

Good luck and enjoy Ron.. Looking forward to seeing the progress on the kitchen upgrade. Have a great weekend my friend..

@johnmitchell, 
Hey John! Just finished hanging the sheet rock. Found out I am not the expert I thought I was, but it is done, and done right.
How's the landscaping?
Here is a couple pics, still need to add a couple more layers of drywall mud and sanding, then priming. My ceiling boards should arrive today, we are doing planked ceilings.
Got a long way to go. Hope to start the cabinet hanging next week, and build a template for the counters. It is taking shape though.
Thank you for the kind words, looking forward to this brisket.

bgebrent

That brisket will be prime my brother!  Nice progress on the reno.  Looking forward to the tour.

YukonRon

Eggaroo said:

You will be eating good this weekend. Looking forward to the results. 

@eggaroo If all goes well, it will be gone tonight. My Beautiful Wife and I are entertaining some friends and family.
My SIL is visiting this week, from Ghana, and we have friends that wanted to see her while she is here. Glad to have her here, and this was what she requested while back home in the States.

YukonRon

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Game on.  Looks like the start of a great weekend.  Evan Williams on the rocks though? Whew, you are a brave man. I had to stop drinking that after college. Maybe it was a quantity control issue. 

@Killit_and_Grillit. 
Yeah, I know. We just finished the last of the super nice cabs, and I did not want to open another wine. I started rumaging through the liquor cabinet, and found the remaining Evan Williams we used for the Bourbon Slushies My Beautiful Wife and I made for the North Carolina Butt Blast, back in April.
They were killer. EW is not so bad, actually voted bourbon of the year, this year, and has been rated very high by several publications. I will admit, I am not a bourbon guy, wine is my go to, but after some research, we chose EW, for the NC2B, and it turned out really well, I think.
Just checked on the Brisket, 157F IT, stalled. It will be a few more hours until it hits the magic 190F IT before I can start probing last one I did, was done at 192F IT. You never know with brisket. Just bow to the cow.

YukonRon

saluki2007 said:

Looking good so far Ron.  Will be standing by.

@saluki2007
Thanks, it is going to be a while, but the neighbors are waking up to some pecan smoke goodness this morning.

YukonRon

K

GrillSgt said:

Nothing like a good bourbon soup with ice croutons.

@GrillSgt
Just a nice tool, to get the brisket started, and end the evening. 

YukonRon

bgebrent said:

That brisket will be prime my brother!  Nice progress on the reno.  Looking forward to the tour.

Thank you for the kind words, it is nice seeing this beggining to come together. Cabinets, ceiling panels and flooring the next couple of weeks. Crunch time, brother. Hoping no more snags.
It is just one room, we have several more to go.
Suzy and I are looking forward to seeing you and Nicole. Should be fun.

northGAcock

Keep on trucking Ron....Looking forward to patting you on the back and admiring your work. I thought you Kentucky boys drank that stuff straight out of the bottle?

YukonRon

@northGAcock can't wait to see you, brother.
Robin, there are many things I am not good at, but I am good at getting help when I know I need it. Did one of these once before, and that experience taught me much.
It will be the work of several folks, I am mostly in the way, but learning a lot.
It is getting there, got a ton of folks to thank.
Nah, bottle is too big,  don't want to risk dropping it and watching it shatter. I prefer to empty it, one pour at a time, unless of course, we are making a few batches of bourbon slushies. Rockin' on dude.

YukonRon

172F IT, looking pretty tasty, 10 hours in.

YukonRon

Walls and ceiling. Had to use plastic over the doorway into the rest of the house to minimize dust and dirt. Having to change out air filters in the hvac unit frequently.

blind99

Coming along nicely - both the brisket and the kitchen 

bourbon is a great drink to accompany late night smoking. 

YukonRon

I am very pleased with the progress thus far. Got a long way to go, and this is just the first room we are renovating, we have so many more rooms to do.

Legume

Damn that's looking good!

YukonRon

blind99 said:

Coming along nicely - both the brisket and the kitchen 

bourbon is a great drink to accompany late night smoking. 

The kitchen is looking good, the brisket aroma is awesome, the neighbors really love the cooks.

YukonRon

@Legume
Thank you sir, I hope it tastes as good as it looks, IT is crawling through the stall.

NC_Egghead

Brisky and reno both looking' good! I've made a couple batches of your famous Bourbon Slushies and they are always a huge hit! Since you technically started drinking this morning, you can officially say you've been drinking all day!

HoosierBBQ

Is there a recipe floating around for those bourbon slushed?

Brisket is looking really good, there's going to be some good eatin' tonight for you!

Killit_and_Grillit

YukonRon said:

@Killit_and_Grillit. 
I started rumaging through the liquor cabinet, and found the remaining Evan Williams we used for the Bourbon Slushies
They were killer. EW is not so bad, actually voted bourbon of the year, this year, and has been rated very high by several publications. I will admit, I am not a bourbon guy, 

My granddad drinks Evan Williams white label. He swears by it. But I guess at the rate we "borrowed" bottles and drank them behind the barn it left me with a sour stomach. 

But if you've got to make the decision on that or popping the cork on a good bottle of wine for one glass. 

YukonRon

NC_Egghead said:

Brisky and reno both looking' good! I've made a couple batches of your famous Bourbon Slushies and they are always a huge hit! Since you technically started drinking this morning, you can officially say you've been drinking all day!

@ncegghead

Yeah, that is exactly what I want to be known for, LOL. Although, it may appear I spend too much time with bourbon, ......um, nevermind
BTW, the brisket was pulled at 192F IT.
My friends and family told me they have had none better. Hope it was not BS.

YukonRon

HoosierBBQ said:

Is there a recipe floating around for those bourbon slushed?

Brisket is looking really good, there's going to be some good eatin' tonight for you!

Send me a PM, and  I will get My Beautiful Wife to give it to me share. She got it at church. It is the real deal.

Best brisket I have done. By Far.

Ozzie_Isaac

Nicely done!!

YukonRon

Killit_and_Grillit said:

YukonRon said:

@Killit_and_Grillit. 
I started rumaging through the liquor cabinet, and found the remaining Evan Williams we used for the Bourbon Slushies
They were killer. EW is not so bad, actually voted bourbon of the year, this year, and has been rated very high by several publications. I will admit, I am not a bourbon guy, 

My granddad drinks Evan Williams white label. He swears by it. But I guess at the rate we "borrowed" bottles and drank them behind the barn it left me with a sour stomach. 

But if you've got to make the decision on that or popping the cork on a good bottle of wine for one glass. 

Here is the thing, closest port when you run into bad storms and rough seas. It is all good.

YukonRon

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Nicely done!!

Thank you sir. My Beautiful Wife told me that it turned out awesome, our guests from KC, said it was comp worthy, and would get a stupid looking trophy. 
Hoping it was as good as she had indicated.dc