How long to smoke summer sausage?

[calis72]

I am making my first attempt at summer sausage today.   Ground the meat, mixxed in the cure and spices and they are now in the bradley drying at 130F.  now i know that i step it up to 160-170 next and apply smoke - but how long do i actually apply smoke to it for (i know it can take 5 hours to reach the target temp)?   i was going to use my crown royal bisquettes (unless someone has a better suggestion).

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[Keymaster]

I would go with 2 hours of smoke, maybe three if you like lots of smoke. I usually use hickory.  Never tried crown. I have had summer sausage take up to 10 hours but normal is about 8 hours. What size casings did you use?

[calis72]

I ended up doing about 3 hours of smoke.   I'm not sure what the casing diameter is - I assume its about 50-55mm?

[Smoker John]

Let us know how it turns out

[calis72]

Posted a full report here:-

http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=28040.0