If you just don't want to spend your whole
day at the grill, here's a fail - safe, Aaron Franklin - endorsed alternate method that will deliver similarly
glorious results: Smoke brisket on grill until an instant - read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of meat registers 150 - 170
degrees, 5 - 6 hours.
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th
day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and
glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great
degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.