Put a smoke on 12 lbs summer sausage and 10 lbs brats today. The brats look like heck, but the actually are goood. 6 hours was a little long on the brats but the summer sausage rocks.
from here, brats may be a bit dark but as long as they taste good who cares
X 2 on that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!They both look great from here!
Venison...... hence the dark color........ Looks awesome 51................nothing wrong with that..... bet they were great..........sprky, they are dark, first time to do brats, used natural casing. Its vineson. it did turn out very good as for the meat. The casing s look like hell actually. It was very good with saurkrout and the beer bread.