Alton Brown is seriously a genius when it comes to food! My family uses a lot of his recipes and Thanksgiving is no different! We use his Brine/Aromatics for Turkey Recipe and it is seriously the best turkey we have ever had! We use to have a good turkey and then next year, it would end up dry...but we never run into that problem anymore!
If you love moist and flavorful turkey...you have to use his recipe! For Christmas, my brother wants to try his aged turkey recipe...so we will see. :)
As a side note, we make our own vegetable broth so we had to add more salt because we realized that box/canned broth has more salt than our homemade broth. Without the added salt, the turkey comes out drier. And then we just add the rest of the brine ingredients!
You can really add whatever vegetables you have on hand to make the broth. We used carrots, potatoes, onion, celery and cabbage. I chopped the vegetables into smaller sizes, quartered the potatoes and onion and chopped the carrots and celery into thirds. You don't need to spend a crazy amount of time chopping, just enough to make the pieces manageable and to let the flavors seep out.
After the broth is done...we let it cool and chill it for about 30 minutes. 
We then put the turkey, the broth and ice into a cooler and let it soak for 8 hours. Then you flip it and let it soak for another 8 hours. Then cook it for the recommended time, stuffing the turkey with the aromatics mix (also chopped to make it more manageable, but no need to finely chop).
Do you have a specific way to cook your turkey? Do you try something different each year? Have you found a recipe that is now the only way you will cook turkey?
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