Texas Style Grey Brisket

Contributed by: Michael Sullivan (gc.sul@forsythe.stanford.edu)

Ingredients:

• 1 prepared Grey brisket (about 2.5 Kg)
• Tomato Paste
• Cheap Lager Beer

MARINADE

Make up marinate of tomato paste, beer to 1/3 of volume (best marinating beer is the real cheap lagers like Pearl, Busch, Old Mil, etc), sauteed garlic, jalepenos, onions, brown sugar, touches of vinegar, worchestershire and mustard.

• poke grey with fork thoroughly
• marinate in fridge overnight in large foil pan

COOKING

• make up hot wood fire - sear and blacken outside of grey
• put back in marinate and cook over low fire for 5 hrs
• test heat by holding hand at level of the grey over fire, should be able to hold for count of 6 before it starts to hurt.

SERVING

• slice grey thin at an angle
• serve with garnish made from broken barley stalks from crop circles.

ACCOMPANY WITH: A fine claret, either Californian or Clare Valley (South Australia)