brisket failure!!!

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bignick1984

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May 9, 2016
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california
I had a brisket failure or well it turned into beef jerky.. I prepared the brisket as normal but I took it out an hour early to bring to room temperature. I noticed the tray was filled with water which I thought it was weird, I put the brisket on the smoker at a temp of 225 to smoke it (green mountain pellet smoker). I spritz the meat every hour to keep it moist. When I took the brisket off at the temperature of 203 i noticed it was pretty bad shape to the point it seemed on the dry beef jerky side. Has anyone had this problem??..

Brisket size was 10# I trimmed all the hard fat and left around 1/4th'ish fat cap to smoke.

Sorry I do not have any pictures of it.
 
AB Canuck, I took around 9-10hours to get to 203, I did not wrap it. The first brisket I did wrap it. I believe it was fully thawed..
 
Well not sure what to say there, I haven't had the water / fluid issue before, I have had some dried out and overcooked, That was when I was using my old thermo, Bought a new one and huge difference.  Try again is what I would say, check your thermo as well.
 
Yeah I will try again this weekend, hopefully it goes better. Maybe it was frozen a little in the center?
 
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