I use this because of the pharmaceuticals and permanent toxins in the central Florida water supply to help with cancer to give the body a break in filtering those out so it can work on healing. Tastes way better than water i was drinking prior. solid functionality. cant put a price on clean water so i would say good value for the money because they are the only filters that go through testing and certification so other companies can realyl put whatever they want in their filters and theres no proof they are putting in what they say they are. so you get what you pay for and thats why it costs so much. people bring these on mission trips and also helps with hurricane prep because it will save you if water is not consumable and needs to be filtered. no electronics to worry about and uses gravity to filter to less components to break. only metal besides the spicket so youre not faced with plastics being in the equation. ease of use is good too. ease of assembly as it is pretty hard to screw up. make sure you put the little clip in to avoid suction hindering the water coming out.

Leaked when it arrived. But sent back and got full refund.

I like that it removes forever chemicals from drinking water

This is the perfect size for the kitchen counter. I live in the country and have a well that has been great forever until recently. I bought this Berkley to help us out until the well guys could correct our well problems, but have liked it so much that I am still using it. They are a bit expensive for my budget, but worth the cost, because I only drink water and I don't like bottled water.

Was really eager to get this water tank and was sorely disappointed when I went online to search for replacement filters. They aren’t available. My unit has the actual company logo in the metal, in front on top, so I know it’s legit, but my unit fits 4 filters, and the unit I bought only comes with 2 black Berkey filters. I wanted to buy the other two filters so I had to go on a literal wild goose chase trying to find a seller & located a few but in Canada. They’re charging the full cost of a whole Berkey unit for TWO filters! $298 for two filters! Why? Because the owner of Berkey is dealing with company lawsuits and stopped manufacturing the filters in the US for the moment. Well if I had known that I wouldn’t have bought this thing. Anyways, one of Berkey’s former resellers here in the US now offers black carbon filters that fit the Berkey, and his is called Boroux and last I checked they’re $140 for two black carbon filters. He also offers the metal water tank that the filters go into. Hopefully that saves anybody the headache of trying to find replacement filters for their Berkey water tank.

Good product. Only issue was that one of the filters was defective and would not allow water to pass through in the set up process. It was discolored as well and clearly defective and probably should have been caught and not included in our order. We ordered another set of filters and had no issue. Once set up, it has been great.

Been told about Berkey’s for 2 years. Our water is not the best, but finally jumped on the train and got one. No more water pitcher on the counter to fill several times a day or boil to purify. (Microplastics you know.) very happy with the quality and the filtration. 6000 gallons before you need to replace the filters! If you have doubts about the quality of your water, do yourself a favor and get one. Better tasting water and peace of mind is worth it it.

exactly how i thought it would be. tracking was good and shipping was fast.

The quality of the water is excellent. I wish that the faucet part was not made of plastic. It is the weak link of this product. We fixed the leak that we had when we first put it together. You can't have the inside parts too loose or too tight. You will find that out very quickly. We do love the ease of having great water available.

We love our stylish Berkey water filter system.We live in a very old house and learned that the water pipes coming into our house from the street are made of lead.Berkey promises these filters get the lead out! We have yet to get a lead test kit to prove this.Once it's up and running, it's a simple matter of making a schedule of refilling it.Ours sits far from our sink - so I use a glass pitcher to fill the tank.I had ordered the see-through spigot only to find that it leaks.I'll be returning that and trying it one more time. It may be a design flaw.We are using the simple spigot that came with the system, which does not leak a bit.Funny - the system is built for 4 filters, but they only give you 2. And the filters, sold 2 in a pack, are quite expensive. We are going to see if we can manage with only the 2 filters before investing in 2 more.The downside of only having 2 filters is that it takes longer for the water to filter through.If you have a busy, thirsty household, you might want to invest up front and get the additional 2-pack of water filters.The instructions were a bit difficult to understand so I went to YouTube and found a very easy to understand video by a young lady, Lisa at Farmhouse on Boone. Very helpful indeed! (Berkey should be paying her to do this for them!!)

I have owned and used a Berkey for about ten years and recently gave my original to a friend in need. This filter is so simple and effective. I take it when I am car camping, or traveling and don't know what the water quality will be at my destination. It is a simple, gravity fed water filter and the filters last forever if you clean them regularly. I have filtered muddy stream water and suffered no ill effects. I also use it at home to take the awful chlorine flavor out of my local water supply. If you want to get rid of fluorine, you will have to buy different filters, which I recommend. Highly recommend, especially when the SHTF and you need safe, clean drinking water.

Wish I would have discovered this system YEARS ago! Yes, it's expensive, but so is ending up in the ER from tweaking your back from lifting those dangerous 5-gallon water-filled jugs. (One wrong move while lifting those things, disaster and life-long pain and sorrow await you.). Go for the FULL system (4 main filters, the 'white' filters, and the 'priming' set up, and the related stand.)Though we're a mere two-person family, we purchased the 3-gallon 'Royal' (+aforementioned accessories) to always have readily available pristine water for drinking, cooking, prepping/rinsing food, ice, and safe water for our pets. Important tips: Always keep the upper tank filled with water, always; otherwise, filters will dry out/crack and need expensive replacement; and keep your 2.5 emptied water jugs (from grocery store - I've kept three) to store newly purified water. You'll be surprised how water is needed, daily.(Don't let the filtered water sit too long in the bottom chamber. Recycle it! That is, refill the upper tank with this same water!)So happy I no longer have to lift/transport those dangerous 5-gallon water jugs.

Like so many things these days, unless you have easy access to lab testing, buying a water "purifier" is a confidence game.UPSIDES: Chrome plating looks like it is of high quality. Metal is of decent gauge. Simple design. Our "seller" did a great job handling a problem (kudos to Seller, "R House Industries LLC"!).DOWNSIDES: Manufacturer coulda/shoulda included a fill gauge to prevent overflow (a minor detail, but they could have). Attached filters don't filter fluoride... they upsell an add-on filter.OPEN QUESTIONS: It is hard to locate the trust factor with the Berkey manufacturer, "New Millennium Concepts," and ALL the myriad knock-off "replacements" made by others which allegedly work just as well as branded Berkey products. Again, without a lab, we are reduced to trusting strangers with the purity of our precious bodily fluids.CONCLUSION: I have been drinking water from this filter for almost two months and am alive to write this review.

We moved to the desert from Wisconsin 2 years ago and had been on well water for years. The taste of chlorinated city water was not something we could tolerate. We had been buying water by the gallon. 3 gallons a day. Finally decided to bite the bullet and spend the money after talking to friends that had Berkeys. Should have bought one the day we got here. Taster is fantastic. No odor. Very simple to fill. Once a day for three of us and a small dog. We keep it on the kitchen counter by the sink so the faucet hose reaches to fill it. This will pay for itself in no time at all compared to buying water. Even if it didn't I would buy it without hesitation. I have since added Berkey filters for the showers. Jury is still out on that.

It’s on the expensive side for sure but this system is well worth the money. It’s an investment. We’ve tried several systems. The britta is dinky, the zero water system is a hassle plus the filters don’t last long and you end up spending far more on filters in the long run than you will on a berkey system. The Berkey black filters last a long time. Maybe some people have issues with them after awhile but I’m confident in this product and if I run into any issues I’ll contact the supplier and change this review. My advice is to order as big as you can (trust me you’ll wish you would have later) And buy the appropriate sized sight glass spigot so you know how much water is in the tank. It really helps with knowing when you need to add more water and how much to avoid any overflow. Hope this helped and I will edit this review if anything changes.Edit: 6 months later- we still love it! Nothing has changed water still has good flavor. We are happy with it.Edit: Almost a year later now and still going strong. No flavor changes at all.

Amazing Water filter!We workout a whole lot at our house. We go through so much bottled water as tap water is not good at all. We spent so much money each week buying water, not to mention all of the waste. I h e researched gravity fed water filtration for a long while now. Big Berkey is just said to be the best. So we bought one. Let me tell you, the water coming out of this thing is spectacular! Tastes amazing, super easy to set up. Refill it with tap water and it filters well over 99% of garbage out of the tap water. Hold a glass of tap water up to some water you just ran through the Berkey and you will too see. No more wasted money, no more trash. We are in love! Looks great in the kitchen too! Five stars all day baby! Thank you guys!

Expensive. But worth it. We own 2, and purchased this one for our son's wedding. It was a gift. The box, however, the Berkey Box was very old, weathered, and had been entered into and taped back. The original tape was yellow and was so old, it had no more adhesive. This outer boxing looked awful and we had to go out of out of our way to go find a nice box to put it in to wrap up. That is my only complaint. The actual Berkey was brand new inside. It's just a shame this seller sent it to me in a really old box. Buyer beware - and we will probably never return to this seller again. *When you drop a few hundred dollars on a NEW product, you should expect it to be in a nicer box.

For filtering, 2-Blacks & 2-PF-2's (4 filters) this can not be beat.Be sure to order the Stainless Works SSS012 spigot replacement.The unit, if permanent, i.e., in a kitchen, is weak in one point.. it needs manual refilling.This was not acceptable, and the glass water-level spigot is not only expensive but does nothing to solve the fill-it-by-hand inconvenience.Overcome this glaring problem by modifying the unit to Refill Automatically.[Any Warranties by any MFG involved will obviously be VOIDED]... but this Mod works!Here is the very basic method we used to accomplish a finished working Berkey Auto-Fill unit.1- Locate a Adjustable Mini Float Valve For Aquarium RO DI Reverse Osmosis System on Amazon or eBAY etc, and enlarge the Berkey lid hole for the float threads to poke from the inside to the outside. The float will be hanging in place, attached to the lid. The lid center-hole is drilled larger to fit this top float-valve, with the valve water inlet protruding through the top of the lid, and the float hanging under the lid. (effectively the float hangs downward into the Berkey's top can. To drill the center-hole larger, cover the Lid with seran wrap or such, on both sides, to protect the finish... (any twist or abrasion may, will, mar the 'mirror' finish of the chrome look). 'Sandwich' the lid with 1/2'-inch or so wood blocks top and bottom, (having pre-drilled a pilot hole, the size of the lid-hole, and line up the wood with the existing lid hole...C-clamp wood in place with reasonable torque. After lining up the lid's hole and two clamping blocks, use standard metal drills, (three sizes and oil, up to finished dimension to fit the valve hole needed to install the float-vale).2- Drill a screw hole to thread, on each side of the lid, for a small screw, size-6?.A screw goes on each side of the lid. The lid hole is large enough for the two screws to easily fit through.The two receiver holes in the side-wall of the Berkey must be drilled with a proper 'tap-drill' size to fit the 'fine-thread' of the 2 chosen screws.These two screws will prevent the lid from 'lifting' when the water in the top chamber lifts the float ball high enough to shut off the incoming water flow/pressure. The float should stop the water about 1.5 inches from the top lip of the upper tank.(A float-valve will general handle 60 p.s.i., but we had pre-regulated our pressure down to 40 p.s.i for a prior filter system, so we left that control in place for this Berkey DYI project). Remember, the Berkey cans are a thin metal, treat the 'threads' with a light-hand so as not to 'strip' them out. You are NOT tightening the screws, you are ONLY 'holding-down' the lid, pinning-it, so it cannot rise against the pressure of the float.Do NOT seal (air-tight) the lid to the top can. Do NOT seal the bottom can to the top can. Just let them all sit, together, as designed.3- Coming off the top of the LID, (with a copper 'Ell' adapter), the float-valve is fitted from the inlet to a 1/4 compression soft-copper pipe, connected via a 'compression-Tee' to either the Sink or Refrig. water supply inlet.With the float in place, the LID screwed on, and copper tubing connected (but not as yet turned on), this completes the Top Tank portion.Auto-FILL is no longer a problem.4- Now the Bottom Tank has to be fixed, to have the incoming filtered water stopped, before it overflows.To achieve auto-SHUT-OFF, a second float is needed to be installed, inside the LOWER Berkey tank.Do not use a second Mini Float Valve for the bottom tank, as the mini-float is too small a float to properly work in the lower tank.Instead find a new plastic (or) copper float-valve unit that is designed to control the water level of a Evaporative / Swamp Cooler's water pan.This would be found as a 1/4-Inch Compression Evaporative Swamp Cooler float valve.This Cooler "float" is large, but not overly large as the float will be fit Vertically in the center of the lower tank, even if the Berkey has 4 filters installed. This larger size of float is "needed" to properly cut-off the water flow to the bottom tank as it fills.(The float bobs VERTICAL in the center of the tank, but the valve itself wants to be close to the tank's bottom, thus the hoses support the valve down near the spigot)5- One short piece of medical-grade (clean) rubber (or) plastic tubing, exits out the bottom of each of the two PF-2 filters, and the other end of each of these tubes joins into a plastic (or) metal 'Tee' making a completed loop, water dripping from each PF-2 filter, out and down their rubber tubing into a Tee, and continuing down into the bottom float-valve.The lower PF-2 filter's (water exit holes), are not threaded. (You may attempt to carefully thread the PF-2's for a hose/adapter attachment if you have the proper tap and hose adapters but contamination may result without careful forethought). The method we used, considering only 'gravity feed' pressure is exerted on the filters into the lower tank, is to sli...

This thing works amazingly well. Where I live the water really tastes pretty bad. I noticed it as soon as I moved in and have been just living with it for almost a year. The first water that I tasted with this filter tasted perfect. And the coffee that I make with the water from it is hands down better than from the tap. Just amazing. I wish I would have bought it sooner!As far as capacity, this one works great for my wife and me. It is way fast enough. It would be great for 4 people and I think it could even do six. If it was only going to be me and one other person, the size smaller would probably be plenty. I went with this size because we may end up with kids and sometimes I just buy one step higher than I think I really need. Also, i was intending to set it on the counter and the size smaller was already going to interfere with the upper cabinet so I figured just buy the taller one.Speaking of setting it out, it looks really great sitting on the counter. The wife didn't give me any grief whatsoever about some ugly "prepper gear" sitting in our kitchen. Which is really great. :)I can't speak highly enough of this filter.

Bought it used through Amazon Warehouse and any defects were described properly. Finally can have fluoride free water.1 Year Update:We've been using this for a little over a year now. The filters are going strong and we go through this tank daily. It's been a dream! Drinking tap water after using this Berkey has become absolutely intolerable since we began using this system. This filter goes so far beyond other filter systems out there. This size keeps up with 3 adults and 5 cats. We feel we could have gone the next size up, but are still extremely happy with this purchase. We just let it catch up dripping over night.We highly recommend this Berkey Filtration system as these are the differences we have found since our purchase. All of our water intake has increased a good 90%! We trust our water now. Our cats fur changed dramatically from just the first month of giving them Berkey water and we have not given them tap since. We recommend this to anyone and feel this makes an excellent gift idea as it is a gift of health.As product testers, we did not receive a discounted price of this product to give our honest and unbiased review of said product. Our reviews come from hands on testing and are not influenced by the seller. Nor are we affiliated with this seller or Amazon in any way. Pictures have been included for your convenience. Have Questions? Feel free to ask and we will do our best to assist.Was our review helpful? If so, please select YES below.