I have done the brick method also... they come out entirely different... both are really good...

BTW... the brick method has been around a long time before Emeril has been on TV, as I have been doing it that way since the 70's...
first used that method for Ruffed Grouse, Doves & Quail when I was in High School and had just started hunting them...
My grandfather (1888-1985) taught me how to do that after I brought home a bunch of quail...
and he said he learned it from my great grandfather, who died in 1909 from the flu...
My grandfather was a big time upland bird hunter... it was a passion of his...
I never saw him happier than when I brought home a few Grouse for dinner...