Hello all and good morning! I've been up since about one o'clock tending the smoker and drinking and relaxing with some good buddies of mine. I'm cooking my very first brisket and I've read and read and read and I thought I had the theory down solid. I got the offset smoker up to 210-235 range then threw the trimmed brisket fat side up onto the smoker. After 4 hours I opened the cc for an apple cider spritz and a turn and the first thing I noticed is it looked dry. Like really dry, so I started to get nervous. I spritzed extra thinking it would soaked up some more but when I just opened after two more hours it's looking even worse. Is that the start to the bark forming or is that signs that I'm going to have an expensive piece of leather after 15 hours of tending to this thing like it was my baby? I've been looking on the forum for about 30 minutes and I have found anything about being able to tell if it's drying out as your cooking it. Thanks alot guys I've learned a ton on this forum and hope to learn something new yet again