A bit of a learning curve to use especially knowing when the filter is clogged up (it starts leaking). Otherwise love it!

The filter works as advertised I did not have much leak while the the filter is in use. I was able to push about 120 gallons of wine through it and probably lost about 1.25 gallons. It is annoying to use this filter with 120 gallons as it takes about 20 filter changes. I did it with 10 because the wine had been racked and cold stabilized prior to use. I had to use a decent amount of gas to push also its easy to push with too much pressure and waste the filter. the biggest leaks happen when you switch the pads. I had to add hose clamps to every connection which adds to the cost of the unit.

Very easy to use. I used gravity to provide the pressure and it filtered 5 gallons of plum wine wonderfully. Will use it for the cider next. I replaced the tubes it came with with some longer silicone tubes and placed the filter on the kitchen counter between two 3-gallon carboys (one high and one low). Once the siphon started it filtered through in 10 minutes.

I have used this 5 times and on the 5th time the hose appeared to pull off of he nipple when I was putting in the filters. When I looked closer it turned out that the nipple had actually broke inside the hose. Also assembling this while keeping things sanitary is cumbersome and tricky. Otherwise it seems to do a fair job.

. Filters works very good. Thank you.

This is a good filter. Makes your homebrew look prefensional and had a easier time finding filters of low microns the the cylender type filters.

The best filter available for the homebrewer IMHO!

Overall this is a very nice product. I have filtered beer in two different ways in the past. I started with the aquarium style filter but I was not satisfied with how much beer seemed to be wasted in the process and the fact that the filter leaked no matter what I did. So I switched to the plate filter product described here. I definitely prefer the plate filter to the aquarium style filter. I ended up just using the aquarium style filter to carbon filter (dechlorinate) my brewing water from the hose - which it does well. The plate filter does a great job filtering the beer. It comes out brilliantly clear. It also works well to filter the yeast out of ciders that you want to back-sweeten to avoid possible secondary fermentations. This way you mechanically remove the yeast and don't have to add chemicals to kill the yeast (if you're into that kinda thing). However a word of caution: For awhile I had gotten really into filtering my beer. I loved the brilliantly clear character that filtration offered and made the beers look professional. However I have noticed that filtering the beer does (at least in my hands) reduce head retention. The beer ends up heading a bit during the filtration process and once these proteins are used for heading they don't come back. Also if you are filtering very hoppy beers some of the hoppiness (likely from filtering out polyphenols) is filtered out. I have started doing experiments with clarifying agents (gelatin to knock down the yeast followed by PolyClar do knowdown some of the haze from polyphenols) to clear the beer without stripping as much of the head potential and hop character. I have had early success with this technique and I plan to employ it again in the near future on a recent batch of IPA. I would say that if making a beer that is supposed to be very clear - Pilsner for example ciders - then the filter works great. I stopped using it on my IPA's though.