Smoked Maple Syrup Corned Beef

I like boiled corned beef but, let's face it, too much of it can be boring. And since I have been eating a lot of corned beef lately due to the sales on it leading into St. Patrick's Day, this year I decided to switch gears and smoke a four pound corned beef using a maple syrup rub with some other ingredients which you can see in the recipe below. The result was much better than I expected to the extent that I plan to primarily smoke my corned beef rather than boil it in the future.

Recipe:

4 lbs corned beef
3 Tbs maple syrup
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 Tbs smoked paprika
2 Tbs ground peppercorn (or spice packet in the corned beef bag)
1 Tbs garlic powder
1 Tbs spicy Montreal steak seasoning (or Cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes)

Smoke on indirect heat for at least 2 hours or longer to reach 180 degrees internal temperature.