Emeril's Kicked Up Stovetop Clam Bake with Lobsters, Mussels, Potatoes, Artichokes, and Sausages

Ingredients

• 1 12 gallons water
• 14 cup salt
• 48 ozs lager beer
• 1 cup crab boil (liquid)
• 3 12 lbs seaweed (fresh, rockweed rinsed in water)
• 3 lbs new potatoes (scrubbed)
• 2 lbs yellow onions (left whole and ends trimmed outer papery skin discarded)
• 2 white corn (cobs, shucked silk removed and cut in half crosswise)
• 2 corn (cobs yellow, shucked silk removed and cut in half crosswise)
• 4 heads garlic (cut in 12 crosswise)
• 3 artichokes
• 2 lbs italian sweet sausage (cut into 2 to 3 inch pieces)
• 2 lbs portuguese chorizo
• 7 12 lbs lobsters (rinsed)
• 3 tbsps essence
• 4 lbs clams (live, scrubbed soaked and well rinsed in 2 to 3 changes of water to rid of sand)
• 2 lbs mussels (live, scrubbed soaked rinsed and debearded)
• 1 lb asparagus (thick, tough ends discarded trimmed to the same length)
• 1 cup melted butter
• 2 tbsps fresh lemon juice
• cayenne
• french bread (warm)
• 2 12 tbsps paprika
• 2 tbsps salt
• 2 tbsps garlic powder
• 1 tbsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp onion powder
• 1 tbsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tbsp oregano (dried leaf)
• 1 tbsp dried thyme