I'm combining the suggestions from
@Brett-EDH and
@Chris Allingham and making it up as I get close to the finish time.
Soaked in cool water in the fridge for about 20 hours total with 4 water changes yesterday.
I trimmed the fat. I want bark more than fat and provided more water access to un brine the corned beef.
Rub is the amazing rib rub in the mclaren link above. I'll add a link if I get a chance.
I read the post mortem Brett wrote and crushed the peppercorns, coriander seeds and mustard seeds. I was pleasantly surprised that I had all the spices. After it was well pulverized I gave the beef a heavy coating. No binder was used I just worked it in with my hands wearing gloves.
I went with KPro since the bag was open and the briqs do well enough on a cook like this.
I've been using an inverted drop spider from my BGE to raise the deflector shield up about an inch and a half. I cover the deflector in foil so the smoke rolls around the edges, otherwise I poke holes in the foil near the edges so I don't smother the coal.
Meat is on. Using both a meater plus and a Smoke for temp monitoring. Meater plus went through a firmware update and didn't connect at first, but it finally synced with my tablet.
I decided to run the probe wire out the back where the gasket seam is. I get a little smoke leak there so it seems lik a good spot.
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Off to the grocery store. I checked in once on the Meater cloud and all was within ranges so I didn't have to wonder.