We purchased a Royal Berkey, with the black filters, a few months back, and it works great!

We used to buy bottled spring water, in 2.5 liter containers, and go through 2 to 3 of those a week for drinking water.

The Berkey filtered water tastes better, and I believe we've already payed for it, or very close.

I would give anyone a heartfelt endorsement for a Berkey water filter. Easy to use.

Priming was easy, just held them up to the tap for a few minutes. The alternative method is to use a sport bottle, and that worked well as well. I tried each method on of the two filters I had. The tap was a little easier, more pressure, but both work great now.