The #1 Go Berkey Water Filter Review

The Go Berkey Kit is the smallest stainless gravity system we sell. Typical kit price is in the low $200s and includes one element, a Sport Berkey bottle, and a case.

It uses the same gravity carbon media family as the larger systems — Phoenix elements are the current official replacements when you reorder.

Use it on municipally treated tap water: hotel sink, office cooler tap, campus fountain, RV tank filled from a city tap. Do not pour creek, lake, or untreated well water into it.

Who the Go Berkey Is For

One or two people who want a quart on a desk or in a guest-room bathroom. College dorms with no counter for a Big Berkey. Flight + hotel: nest the chambers, pack the element dry, fill from the room tap. Car camping at a campground with a city or park tap is the same idea as a hotel.

It is not a straw filter for a stream. If you hike, pack water you already filtered at camp from a tap, or buy bottled.

Go Berkey Features

Polished AISI 304 stainless. One gravity element. About one quart in the lower chamber.

About 14" tall assembled, about 4" diameter, about 10" nested. About 2.4 lb empty.

Flow is up to about a gallon per hour after a solid prime — real-world tap temperature and mineral content change that.

• Reduces heavy metals and many pharmaceuticals in tap-water tests
• Reduces herbicides, pesticides, VOCs, radon 222, and THMs
• Elements can be scrubbed when flow slows; re-prime after cleaning
• Lab-tested media (read the PDF on the product page)
• No PF-2 fluoride add-on — the stem stack is too short

Sport Bottle in the Kit

The bottle is for walking between taps. Fill at a fountain that is city water. Squeeze through the filter. Same chemical-reduction job as the chamber system, smaller volume.

What Owners Usually Like

• Light and nested height for a suitcase
• Steel does not feel disposable
• Simple setup: prime, seat the washer, pour tap water
• Instructions can feel dense the first time — prime longer than you think

Power Outages

Keep stored municipally treated tap water. The Go Berkey filters that stored tap with no electricity. That is the emergency use. Official replacements: Berkey Phoenix filters.

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