"So, I got the PSII hi cap (with the standard pot) with the bronze starter kit. I made up a 6 gallon wash with 10 pounds of sugar. pulled off 2 gallons and put it aside in a carboy and added 4 pounds sugar to the carboy. Put the other 4 gallons in the fermenter and pitched the whole package of turbo when the temp dropped below 104. It caught in an hour and six hours later was trying to blow the cap off the airlock.

24 hours later the bubbles slowed down a little, like one every 3 seconds, so I added a callon of the hold back and the bubbles got fierce again. next night I did the same and added the last of the hold back. Yep, fierce bubbles again.

Two nights later, the bubbles stopped. I disolved 2 pounds sugar in as little boiling water as would do it, chilled it to 104 with ice, and chucked it in. Stirred briskly and got her re-started, gentle this time. She chugged along like this for 4 days, slowing as she went. Bubbles were down to one every 20 seconds or so and I was out of patience, SG was down to 0.98 and she was just starting to clear so I racked into the carboy to clarify. What is that?16 pounds of sugar?

Left maybe 3 quarts in the bottom of the fermenter and poured in 5 gallons of an inverted sugar wash 12 pounds and a can of tomato paste because BW said so. Caught in an hour and is chugging along now at a very reasonable rate. Didn't pitch any new yeast.

The carboy started bubbling again, so I let her set for a day. Tasted like a really bad dry white wine...needed to be well chilled."

I think the tomato paste is a nutrient for the yeast, so it would need to go in at the first.