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Prior to this purchase, I was using the typical bottling wand. Since so many of my bottles are so dark, it was nearly impossible to see how much wine was going in each bottle. Unless it came bubbling out of the top of the bottle, I was just guessing. This filler has made bottling so much easier. I've never had a problem with it shutting off filling when each bottle is full. I'm getting fuller bottles with much, much less spillage. I have a feeling that a lot of the negative reviews are people who just don't know how to use it. You need to keep it pushed into the bottle top hard so that any overflow goes out the overflow tube. It's worked great for me.

It does work very nicely with an attached vacuum pump but....you should practice with water first to get the feel and proper set screw (flow regulator) setting.Regardless of whether you use a vacuum pump or not, the filler requires head pressure on the inlet to shutoff properly when filling. This means that the carboy that feeds the filler needs to be above your wine bottle. Caveat: Having carboy and bottle at the same level does work with a vacuum pump, but shutoff is less sensitive and causes more wine to go into overflow which I empirically determined to be about 1% of the total fill....still not bad.I got great performance with the carboy elevated just above the top of wine bottle with vacuum pump. The set screw was all the way out (no spring tension) and vacuum pressure was maintained at about 3.0 inHg. Yes, that's very little vac pressure, but it filled bottles quickly with consistent shutoff and minimal overflow (less than 1%). This is very nice considering the carboy requires very little elevation.The filler does work well on gravity feed only, but the vacuum pump provides a good flowrate with the carboy at a lower elevation, which is easier on older backs. I am quite satisfied with the filler's cost to benefit, considering I do about 50 bottles a year. If you have a money tree then you should be looking at an Enolmatic or Buon Vino Jet Filler.

Work great first few times. Followed care instructions to the tee. But now it does not work at all.

Had trouble getting it started, then worked well except it overfills a bit. I will try too just it with next use

I had a lot of difficulty getting this filler to work correctly when I first tried it. It would lose siphoning power, it was difficult to get started siphoning, and the automatic shut off button would not pop up. After experimenting with it quit a bit, I finally got it to work fairly well. I found the biggest issues were that the filler had to be tight on the bottle for the siphoning to start. Otherwise you don't create a vacuum in the tube to start the wine. Then I also found that once the wine starts flowing you need to loosen the filler in the bottle or pressure builds up forcing the siphoning to slow down and dump about half the flow into the overflow tube. Once I figured these things out, the bottling went fairly well. The automatic shut off button never did pop up so I just needed to make sure I popped it up manually before moving on to the next bottle. The flow regulator set screw could also use a different end because it is difficult to turn. Also, the directions that come with the filler are not very detailed. The good aspects of the filler are that once I got it figured out, it filled the bottles quickly and it could be done easily by one person.

This bottle filler works great for bottle, carboys, and bags. Easy to use and clean.

I've tried filler wands, sprouts,etc. this one is by far the best and fastest filler I've used. The only adjustment I made was to the rubber stopper which controls fill height. For a home brewer, I don't think I'll use anything else. The price is great and filler workers well and is easy to use. Read the instructions on how to handle it as there are things you shouldn't do with it.

This is the third one I purchased. It works well for bottling but after 3-5 usages the top seal starts leaking. This has happened on both the two privies ones. I would buy a different one but there isn’t too many inexpensive choices out there. Recently I noticed the price almost doubled from $27 to $43.