"Went simple with the first batch, brown sugar, seafood seasoning, salt, tobasco, garlic salt, will use beer and water in the smoker, hope it turns out well."

Smoking salmon has two phases - smoking and drying. If you put beer and water in the smoker you'll introduce a bunch of unwanted moisture in the process and will be 'steaming' the salmon and not drying it. Unlike ribs or something that needs the moisture, salmon has lots of oil in it.

Just my two cents...