St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef (Crowd Cow)

Ingredients

• 5 tbsp pink curing salt*
• 1 cup kosher salt
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken into several pieces
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp black peppercorns
• 8 whole cloves
• 8 whole allspice berries
• 12 whole juniper berries
• 1 5 lbs pound beef brisket
• 1 medium onion, quartered
• 2 large carrots, coarsely chopped
• 2 stalks celery, coarsely chopped