This product is pretty good. I will confirm all the same leaky issues that everybody else has complained about. If you don’t have a wrench for tightening the filter canister, that will an easy fail point. Luckily I already had one from my RO filter setup. The second leaky point are the shitty plastic connectors with the barb hose valves. I replaced those with stainless ball lock to 1/2” npt adapters and a bunch of Teflon thread tape. Sucks those cost an extra ~$13 a piece on Amazon. By using those you can also use your CO2 tank to purge the filter unit, eliminating the concern for oxidation. I also use a third stainless ball lock to 1/2” npt to connect to my fermenter. This way I can easily connect it when I keg my beer. If you are like me and use PBW and startsan to clean your kegs, you will find that you can push use CO2 to push the pbw and starsan back thru the filter. I also bought one of the reusable filters. Was able to soak the filter with pbw in the filter canister. After running starstan thru the filter, I empty out the sanitizer and purge with CO2, leaving it ready for me to plug in for my next filter runDef concerned about the plastic threads, but I plan on keeping my stainless threaded ball lock adapters in for the life of the filter

Filters seem to be too long can't get a good seal! Had to and an additional gasket to fill in the space.

I read so many horrific reviews about filtering as the cannister explodes, it breaks a hose etc. However, this system was easy to set up and the process was seamless. Hook it to one Carboy and then to the other and watch your PSI in both tanks and the process begins. I used a spunding valve to maintain the pressure in the receiving tank. The entire process of transferring 18.5 L took about 13 mins.

filters our cider well but does potentially introduce oxygen into the transfer. hard to get the counter pressure accurate so that the transfer does not bubble within the filter housing.

Mine had considerable leakage at the threads of the plastic barb fittings on the lid. The barbs themselves are flimsy and too narrow for the tubing. If you order this filter kit make sure to get two stainless 1/2" NPT 3/8" barb fittings to replace the plastic ones with.

Works great. I bought a cheaper one that leaked. This one comes with an o ring and doesn’t leak at all.

This kit workers great. Crystal clear beer

The red button didn't immediately purge the bubbles, so there was a bit of a mess until it cleared. After that it worked fine. Not sure why the directions say to keep the destination keg relief valve closed. If you leave it open the flow continues without having to continually release it.

Works great, glad that i bought this.

The filter unit itself worked very well. Pleased with the ease of use.

I'm not saying this is a bad product because it does work it gets the yeast out of beer which does make it more pleasing to look at but if you're expecting to get sparkling clear beer like the commercial brewery's I would look somewhere else I've ran thru a five micron and then a one micron and it's still not even close to as clear as what you get from a commercial brewery but it does work That's just my two cents

Would have been a 5 rating but I did not check the connections before I put it to use and had product everywhere because one of the clamps was not ratcheted down all the way.

Leaks under pressure no matter how tight the seal was

Great for giving that extra shine to your beer

We have a difficult time getting a good seal when screwing down the top. This results in leaks that get worse as the filter housing cools down from the cold beer, and then we have to tighten it again - usually it takes two people to get it tight enough. I am glad that I have the filter housing, filtering the beer is really valuable if kegs are going to events. But it is not as easy to use as I had hoped.

The first try yielded a beer-drenched-kitchen and soaked hobbyist-brewer. The "O" ring that came with the filter was crimped when I opened the housing and I SHOULD HAVE been more cautious. Nonetheless I trudged ahead and the resulting bad-seal caused a shower of wort-laden brew all over the place. I complained to Customer Service. They were great in responding with a sympathetic tone AND sending me TWO "O" rings! Long story short. I installed the ring, connected the two OUT ball locks and SLOWLY ramped up the pressure to push the sediment/liquid through the filter. It worked great.

People say they had leaking but I filtered 50 gallons of beer (5 - 10 gallon batches) in one day and never had an issue. Used 3 micron filters with all my beer. Recommend it.

I've used this many times and have had very little issues. Still tinkering to use it as a hopback but for what it's meant for, it works great!

Used it for 3 batches. So far i feel the filter has improved each beer.

I usually use it for filtering my ciders. However, with a carbon filter it serves a dual purpose. Chlorine and taste filtration :)

Used this once on a ten gallon batch. I cold crashed for 4 days before, transferred to kegs, then ran thru the filter. I though the filter was going to come out filled with sediment, but it wasn't that bad. Had a little leak at first, but a little tighter twist solved that. Will probably use on all my batches from now on.

I have used this multiple times on both new and carbed beer and it gets the job done every time. Having the ability to use different micron filters is a plus.

I ended up turning it into a Randall to push beer through hops because now I cold crash in the fermenter to clear the beer before kegging.

I have to tighten it with a pipe wrench to keep it from leaking but other then that it does what it is supposed to

I've been brewing for 10+ years and until I used this item a few months back had never bothered to filter before. I find myself traveling with more kegs lately and even after cold conditioning, once the keg gets shaken up a little it ends up cloudy. I brew 20 gallon batches and have used the filter twice now and when used on all 4 kegs it's running fairly slow by the time it gets to the last keg (filter getting clogged). I agree that if I were doing 5-10 gallon batches, $4-$6/filter wouldn't make a lot of economic sense but putting it to use for 4 kegs at a time I figure I get good value from it. So far have only used the 3 micron filters. I've recorded no leaking and don't see how the lid would be easy to cross-thread. I do agree that it would have been better with flared fittings to be able to easier clean.

I just brewed my first IPA and used my conical for the first time. After cold crashing the beer, dumping the trub and yeast, and racking into a keg, I still had a ton of sediment floating around in the beer. This prompted me to look into some sort of filtration system. I settled on this one and I'm glad I did. I filtered the beer using the included one micron filter. The beer not runs into my glass with just a slight chill haze but absolutely NO sediment resting at the bottom of the glass. Overall, extremely satisfied with this product.

I used this a couple times. I probably used it too quickly. After racking to a keg, let any conditioning that you want take place and then chill it before filtering. It works good enough for home brewing.

I now have 3 of these. One for water, one for filtering beer and one i have set up as a randalizer. Other than a fitting leak (corrected with Teflon tape) all 3 have worked well and are easy to use. I had no problem filtering 10+ gallons with one filter. A variety of filters are readily available and relatively cheap. I have found that using to fine of a filter that some flavor is removed, but the finished product is sparkling clear.

I bought this to filter out some of my homebrews prior to transport/bottling. If I moved my IPA kegs I was having issues with them spewing hop junk left over from dry hopping. I've successfully used this to filter several batches with great success. You loose a little flavor with the filtering but the recipe can be adjusted to compendsate ahead of time for this. Great product.

I am fortunate enough to not have the issues some of the others mention (leaking). This filter worked perfectly for me, even on my supper hoppy Enjoy By clone (6 oz dry hops for 5 gal batch). Not a problem! Eliminated the hop sediment (after having to clean out my clogged dip tube). Just beware that by using this, you will have to be prepared to lose a beer (or two) that doesn't make it from the filter to the keg when done.

this filter works fine if you are in a hurry and have to filter your beer quickly. i still prefer the cold conditioning much much more, it will drop everything out of suspention but if you dont have that kind of time use the filter.