Alright, I'm back at it.
Starting point: Nugs have hanged out to dry for 4-5 days. They were dry to the touch, but the stems were still a bit bendy. They had some moisture within them and I wanted to pull that to the surface, so after a bit of trimming I put the nugs into a loose vacuum bag. Left them there for a day or two, till I had managed to sift enough kief from my trimmings to coat one of the cobs. And just as I had hoped, the nugs were a bit damp to the touch, but not too moist, perfect for rolling cobs in my opinion.
Rolled them cobs in parchment paper, pressed them against the floor using my own weight, after they looked tight enough I vac sealed them and got to work. Sweated them in a pot (kettle?) for 16 consecutive hours, slept for the night, got up and re-heated the water in the kettle, did another 16 hours or so. Didn't measure temps, I tried to aim to that sweet 40-50 degrees celsius. Went totally by feel. The water was hot enough to become uncomfortable to the touch after a few seconds. That was the temp I tried to maintain. After the water cooled down, I dumped some out and loaded some fresh steaming hot water from my electric kettle (water boiler?), constantly mixing and trying to find that sweet spot. After reloading the water you can just leave it there for a couple of hours.
Fast forward, 19 days. Here we are, the cobs are pretty much done fermenting in my opinion.
Gonna let em dry out slowly. Might re-vac them at some point after taking some samples.
Hybrid X (Northern Lights x Northern Lights)
Gorilla Zkittlez (Gorilla Glue #4 x Zkittlez)
Random bagseed. Some diesel'ish sativa leaning hybrid. Crazy terps.
And, the best one yet..
Let me introduce you to the one and only.. *drum roll*
THE DELUXE COB
Packed with power, bursting with flavor, can literally act as a weapon.
This sucker weighs about 80 grams, it's absolutely rock hard, has all of the best nugs from each of the plants I grew, has been coated with the best dry-sift kief I could manage to pull without getting plant matter in the mix. This thing makes you flinch if you take a sniff, the terps are ridiculous.
I have a cannabis bank now, with a nice variety of cobs from several strains to choose from, all still in a good state of preservation, even though some are nearly two years old! However, I have not been able to keep my favorites that long! I just want to thank Sweet Sue and Tangwena ,again, for the inspiration to get out my sushi mat and put something more than rice in a roll! There is ,to me, no better way to put aside an ounce or two for a rainy day!
My experience back in the old days with "brick weed" was that it was compressed into bricks with little or no regard towards quality of the cure! But , rather was just a matter of getting the harvest to customers in a compact package. The fact that it often contained mold or had fermented was an accident caused by improper curing and/or storage, most likely! I did note in the day, that some of the weed fermented and not spoiled by mold was much better than the same weed from other bricks not fermented at all or ,of course, if they had molded! 
I got ripped off on a couple of kilos that were molded inside and gave myself pneumonia trying to smoke some of that Mexican crap! The same stuff not molded was good! The bricks that seemed to be more brown in color, looked fermented and not moldy were great!
I think due to accidental fermentation! This became something I always checked for as the early kilo sized bricks gave way to small bales made in garbage compacters that were even more prone to having spoiled weed inside them! The cost of those larger bales (@ about $40 a pound and up to about 17-20 pounds) made it a very big loss if any of them contained mostly moldy weed inside. I heard of people getting murdered over this "brick weed" being passed on full of mold spores!
