Threw a 14 pound Angus choice brisket in block smoker about 6:30 this morn.
Doing kinda a hot and fast smoke. Been running between 275-300 with a combo of cherry and apple wood. About 5 hours in got a IT of 158.
Probably will tin it at 170 IT.
This is a test run....got to smoke up 4 or 6 next month for our shop ReGrand opening. Just trying to figure out what time I need to start those to be ready to slice at 4:00 in the afternoon.

There again if this one don't turn out I may have to rethink my strategy for that cook.

Plan on having a few slices of this one for dinner tonight. I told my son when he comes over in tomorrow morning to let Buck out, to take the rest of the brisket home with him.
Wife and I are leaving for Cancun at 4 AM in the morning.

Bill