Summer Sausage Recommendation

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I am looking to make my own venison Summer Sausage this year. What is everyone's favorite seasoning blend? I have had good luck with Bearded Butchers Sweet Spicy Smokey blend for sticks so was thinking of trying their summer sausage. I use AC Leggs for breakfast sausage and I know they have some summer sausage blends as well.
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Ronin75

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High mountain jalapeño and cheese summer sausage kit. I add an extra pound of high temp cheese to 25 lbs of meat
 

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For the purposes of accuracy, actual summer sausage is a fermented sausage and that's what gives it the funky/sweet taste and makes it stable at room temp for so long. The summer sausage kits do not involve a fermentation process. I'm not sure you could technically consider that "summer sausage" -rather, they are smoked sausages.

If you want to so the real thing, Michael Ruhlman's book Charcuterie is probably the most well known resource: https://www.amazon.com/Charcuterie-Craft-Salting-Smoking-Curing/dp/0393058298
 
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