Carolina-Style Pulled Pork Shoulder

—Not On Website, Bill Martin

Ingredients

5 lbs boneless pork butt (shoulder) -- tied or netted

RUB

2 tbsp paprika

1 tbsp black pepper

2 tsp cayenne

BASTE

1/2 cup bourbon

2 tbsp molasses

1 1/2 cup cider vinegar

1 cup water

2 chopped chipotle peppers (rehydrated if

dried) -- (2 to 4 peppers)

2 tbsp salt

1 tbsp crushed red pepper

1 tbsp black pepper

2 tsp cayenne pepper

Hardwood chips -- soaked in water for 1 hour

Directions

To make Rub: mix all ingredients together in a small bowl.
To make Baste: mix all
ingredients together in saucepan, simmer for 5
minutes
Rub pork shoulder on all
surfaces with rub mixture; cover and refrigerate
up to 24 hours.
Prepare a medium
fire in smoker (or covered grill with banked coals).
Smoke pork shoulder with
soaked hardwood chips; adding more charcoal and
wood chips to maintain a
medium-low heat — between 250 and 300ºF —and
smoke until internal temperature of
pork shoulder is between 170 and
180ºF. This slow cooking process should take
between 5 and 6 hours.
Baste the shoulder every 20 to 30 minutes during the last
couple of hours
of cooking.
Boil any leftover basting sauce for 5 minutes, shred
("pull") the meat and
sauce it; serve on sandwich buns with cole
slaw.