This brine is great with chicken and turkey as well!  Need more brine?  Just double the recipe.

Honey Brine

½ gallon hot water

½ lb kosher salt

1 Qt chicken stock

8 oz honey

1 tsp black pepper

¼ c apple juice

½ tsp garlic powder

Stir.  Add 1 lb ice.

Put in 8 hind quarters of rabbit.  Brine for 12 hours.

Pull out and dry.

Rub with Honey Dew Chicken Rub.

Smoke on 250° until internal temperature is 165°.

Serve with Smokehouse Blues Sauce.