Labor day cook: first overnight smoke! (pic heavy)

Brisket, sausage, barbecue "baked-style" black beans, and pasta salad.

So I started the brisket last night, around 9:30pm or so... and let it cook until around noon (12:15 maybe?), low & slow. Around 14-14.5 hours or so.

Prepped & ready to go on the egg



Nice and smoking, around 10pm (maybe 10:30?) last night. Had to pop the top because the temp dropped to around 150, and I was afraid the fire had gone out.



Woke up this morning, went to check the temp and the dome temp was around 185. Had to add some more lump & wood chunks.



At this point the brisket temp was 159.6. Few more hours to go



So I refilled the woodchips, another smoking session is upon us



Right before I took it off. Just wanted to get the peppers roasting while the brisket "rested".



Off the grill, and onto a sheet pan with a towel underneath, and two layers of heavy duty aluminum foil. Ready to add about a cup of beef broth, wrap in foil, wrap in a towel, then stick it into a cooler to "rest."



Can't have brisket without sausage. These links are pork/venison with garlic. mmmm tasty



Letting the roasted peppers/garlic steam to loosen the skins.



Barbecue baked-style black beans. Just waiting on the roasted peppers to finish steaming, and some fresh cilantro.



Homemade agave-chipotle barbecue sauce. The little white bits in there is a lot of minced garlic The bowl in the back is the au jus from the brisket; instead of using any butter/oil in the barbecue sauce, I used the au jus instead.



Prepping the aioli for my brisket sammiches the rest of the week. Mayo, roasted garlic, lemon zest, juice from one lemon, kosher salt, cracked black peppercorns, and some cayenne pepper.



Roasted peppers all chopped and ready to go into the black beans



Barbecue black beans ready to be served, complete with fresh cilantro



The brisket was dynamite.



The bark was absolutely scrumptious



Late lunch/dinner is served. My wife made the pasta salad: al dente macaroni elbows tossed with sun dried tomatoes, scallions, grated parmesan cheese, olive oil, basil pesto, and caeser salad dressing (I think lol).