Just finished my first brisket

It will be fine. Will probably still be too hot to handle when you pull it out.

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The bark is meh, definitely could be better but I wrapped at 165-170

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By meh on the bark do you mean it turned kind of mushy or not crisp enough for your liking? If so buy you some pink looking butcher paper off Amazon for your next brisket to wrap instead of tin foil. It seems to me that brisket wrapped in tin foil keeps the brisket moist but that bark gets mushy. It steams that bark I suppose. Far as sitting in that ice chest that long you will be fine. I prefer a crispier bark and that butcher paper seems to allow the brisket to breath instead of steam or braise. I cooked a brisket a few week ago and didn’t even wrap it. Just spritzed it’s. I wrapped the brisket with a towel and threw it into an ice chest for about 3 hours and when company come over we ate it. Sometimes I think most people over think cooking a brisket. If you start off with a great quality brisket you usually end up with a great brisket at the end.

I've kept brisket resting, wrapped in an ice chest for 4+ hours and it came out piping hot still