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I've decided to try marinating a couple of butts in Captain Morgan and apple juice overnight on the third and put them in the smoker in the morning. Good idea or would using a rub and using the CM and apple juice as a spritz be a better idea?
Try this - marinade one and the other just prep normally. You may find a huge difference in tenderness. Pork shoulder has so much fat it really doesn't need a marinade.
I mop- "Spritz"ing sounds too nancy for me ;{). I have never done a marinade on a butt. I HAVE injected, and always a rub. You'll find more flavor in the mop/spritz <cough> than the maranade, as it cooks down and adds to the bark, I'll bet.
Well I would, but I don't drink. I quit in 1995 because I would have woke up in hell one morning if I hadn't. Needing a new vice (ya have to have a vice), I decided to adopt food as a vice. Anyway, I'm going to go with marinating one and a rub on the other and see how they turn out.