BerkeyCrown Berkey Water Filter System, 6 Gallon Gravity Filter
The largest Berkey at 6 gallons, expandable to eight elements and up to 26 gallons per hour.
$478
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Usability
Usability
The Crown only makes sense if you actually intend to populate it. Eight elements and 26 gallons per hour is genuinely group-scale, but it ships with two, and the additional elements that would get you there are the ones currently unavailable industry-wide. Bought today it is a 6-gallon reservoir running at roughly a quarter of its rated throughput.
- Largest capacity in the range at 6 gallons, suited to four to twelve people
- Expands to eight elements for a rated 26 gallons per hour, the fastest Berkey by a wide margin
- Runs on gravity alone with no electricity, plumbing or water pressure
- Eight elements would hold 24,000 gallons of filtration capacity
- AISI 304 stainless construction with no plastic in the water path except the spigot
- Lifetime warranty on the stainless chambers and hardware when bought through the authorized dealer
- Ships with two of eight element slots filled, so out-of-box flow is nowhere near the 26 GPH headline
- Standalone Black Berkey replacement elements are out of stock industry-wide under an EPA stop-sale order, so the four-, six- and eight-element configurations are not currently purchasable
- No NSF certification for any filtration claim; all performance data is manufacturer-commissioned lab testing
- At 30 in. tall it cannot be filled at a normal kitchen faucet
- Very heavy when the lower chamber is full and not practical to move
- Priming eight elements is a substantial job
The Crown Berkey is the largest system in the range: 6 gallons of storage across two AISI 304 stainless chambers, filtering by gravity with no electricity, plumbing or line pressure.
It ships with two Black Berkey elements and accepts up to eight, which is where its headline 26 gallons per hour comes from. Up to eight PF-2 elements can be fitted below for fluoride and arsenic reduction.
At 30 in. tall and 11 in. across it is a floor-standing or utility-room appliance rather than a countertop one, and it is sized for four to twelve people, offices, churches and group preparedness use.
Additional information
Specification: Crown Berkey Water Filter System, 6 Gallon Gravity Filter
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Questions answered from our data
What does Berkey filter out?Across the 11 Berkey systems we list, the makers claim reduction of 20 contaminants.
Do water filters remove fluoride?82 of the 296 systems we list claim to reduce fluoride.
Does Berkey remove PFAS?Nine of the 11 Berkey systems we list claim to reduce PFAS.
Do water filters remove lead?120 of the 296 systems we list claim to reduce lead.
