Your goto chicken brine recipe?

For doing a chicken smoked at normal temps curing salt is not needed. Curing salt is needed for cold smoking or for when doing extended curing processes. The brine for a chicken is for enhancing the flavor. You can use a brine like Pop's Brine which has cure in it. His brine would make the chicken taste hammy much like the drumsticks you get at fairs and Disneyland.