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Doug,
Welcome to BackpackGearTest.org, and thanks for your Owner Review. I’ll be your editor. This is a good start at a first OR, and I look forward to working with you to get it ready for posting.
My edits below are in the standard BGT format:
EDIT (all caps) – required change
Edit (initial cap) – suggested change or request for clarification
Comment – just that, no change required
After revising you need to do two things. Post the html version of the Report in the Tests/Owner Reviews folder on BackpackGearTest.org, and post the plain text version here, with "Repost," the product name, and your name in the subject line, and with a tinyurl link to the html version in the body of your message.
Cheers, Richard Lyon
BGT Editor
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### Backpacking Background:###
EDIT: Please add a bit about where you hike and normal length of trip. You've only used about seventy words so you should be able to make an addition without running over our 100-word limit.
###Manufacturer: Berkey ###
EDIT: Berkey Filter [Here (but only here you must supply the full name of the manufacturer.]
General EDIT: Please add a line for MSRP, and report on the manufacturer's list price for the product - $31 US.]
### It uses a 2.5 in x 1.25 in (6.3 cm x 3.1 cm ) "Black Berkey Filter Element"###
EDIT: Delete the extra space after "3.1 cm."
###that uses Seychell's Ionic Adsorption Micro Filtration Technology which is a 2 micron filter, ###
Edit: 2-micron [with a hyphen]
### Berkey lists many contaminates on their website that the filter removes as well as claims the filter can remove food coloring from the water. ###
Edit: I'd move "on their website to just before or after "Berkey." As written it implies the contaminates are found on the website.
### The filter is inside the bottle ###
Edit: Where inside the bottle? You might furnish a brief description and refer to your photo.
### and water is sucked through it as the water is drank. ###
EDIT: is drunk
### The manufacturer also claims a 50 year storage shelf life ###
Edit: 50-year [with a hyphen]
###Berkey claims 25-100 gallons of filter use depending on cleanliness of the water source. ###
EDIT: What Berkey and you are describing is filter capacity, but that doesn't come across very well. How about "Berkey claims that each filter will handle . . ."
EDIT: Please add metric equivalent for 25-100 gallons
###I have used this bottle in various temperatures, as low as 0 F ( -17 C) and I have used it on hot summer days. ###
EDIT: Delete the extra space in front of "-17."
EDIT: Add an approximate maximum temperature.
###I like this system as it is simple to manage opposed to other filters ###
EDIT: as opposed to other filters
### I have used this product to filter water from fast moving streams ###
Edit: fast-moving [with a hyphen]
###The cap closes over the suction tube to keep it pinched preventing unwanted water flow and appears that this keeps the suction tube clean and protected as well.###
EDIT: and it appears
### This may have been in part to using it multiple times in the winter and the plastic became brittle, ###
EDIT: This may have been due in part
###I have had the inner tube freeze when temperatures drop into the low teens###
EDIT: low teens F (-10 to -12 C)
### as I have filtered some very questionable water during 2 separate trips ###
Edit: When using single-digit numbers in something other than a measurement it's easier to follow if the number is written out: "two separate trips"
## I have always just rinsed everything out really good ###
EDIT: really well
General EDIT: Somewhere in your Review you should add how many times you've had to change the filter, and if you can estimate the volume of water filtered before needing to change. A sentence about how to change filters would help as well. All these are important information when considering an in-bottle filtration system.