Smoked Corned Beef is Pastrami… and we love Pastrami!!! With St. Paddy’s day coming we have been getting a lot of questions about smoking corned beef. When you smoke corned beef you make Pastrami. We have 3 or 4 recipes posted now for corned beef but I wanted to do a Heavily Peppered Pastrami. Patti and I worked a nice pepper rub and smoked our corned beef to an internal temperature of 200 degrees (93c) and I was in Pastrami Heaven. All with a nice “Kiss of Smoke” from Pacific Pellets Gourmet Blend pellets.