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Would like to update in case this helps anyone in the future. Turns out my problem was the cheese. Used a sharp cheddar (those big Costco blocks) and what I perceived as metal flavor was just really sharp cheese. The reason the meat with no casing was fine was because the cheese melted on the...
Smoked some sticks for 9 hrs and texture/flavor wise came out perfect, however, there is an off taste to the sticks. I also put a thin layer of the exact same meat in the smoker and it came out without that weird taste in the sticks. At a complete loss as to how this could happen.
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