Reliable soft action that doesn't beat up the wine. Installed the pre-filter and flow valve on the outlet side which regulates the flow and also serves as an "on-off switch" as needed. Racking and wine transfers will be easier and more options now as can transfer to higher vessels and can also accommodate a filter.

Racking pump fast and easy to use

We use this pump to transfer wine from barrel to the bottle filler reservoir. The ability to pull air and have consistent flows really saved us so many headaches of our prior setup. No more auto siphons for me.

Very easy to set up and use. Already used it to transfer 3 fermenters into kegs in less time than before. Significantly reduces the chances of oxidizing your beer when transferring. Glad I bought it.

This pump works as advertised. I use it to pump Star San into my 1/2 barrel fermenter and brite tank to sanitize. I keep the Star San in 16 gallon barrels to re-use. Minimal foaming. I doctor RO water to my beer style in 16 gallon barrels (empty 16 gallon LME containers from my brew shop). Then use this pump to move the brew water to my HLT and Mash Tun. Very easy on my back. I plan to buy a second one for backup!

We have been using a smaller pump so it is great to finish in a fraction of the time. Warning you need to get all the gaskets necessary to hook up your hoses.

Good pump for small jobs. You wont be moving a lot of material fast but it does a job job for what its intended purpose is. we use it with a variable speed adapter and move cider from primary to secondary. Or from our press bucket to the fermenter.

Experimenting with our new pump and pre filter. Worked great.

Great pump for racking wine.

I would have given this pump 5 stars but it was not a good fit for what I do with winemaking. I ended up returning it through no fault of its own. I can say it does make quick work of transferring liquids from point A to point B. It's a solid/strong pump although there is no on/off switch. Hindsight I probably should have gone with the variable speed pump. If I made larger volumes wine; it would be a good fit and I would figure out a way to rig an on/off switch for it. Hope this helps!

I got this for smaller volume transfers (1-5 gallon carboys). You will ant to get the screen filter and need screw adapters for your connections. Don’t forget s racking tube with end cap to mitigate sucking up the sediments.

I love it it works no priming needed and it stops when off immediately

We used to siphon the wine into 5 gallon bottles and then pour it back into the barrel after removing the lees. Using the pump with a prefilter allowed us to do in less than half a day what used to take all day with 2 people instead of 4.

This pump works great I've had no problems with it. I use it only to transfer (pump) ice cold water out of a freezer that has been converted into a water storage container for use with a plate chiller.

I like the pump it moves wine between carboys very quickly. My only issue is that it does not have an on-off switch. I I mounted the pump on a box and and added a power strip with an on-off.

WORK GREAT WITH THE BOTTLE FILLER

I would love it more with an on off switch and a speed control. But does it work? Heck yeah.

Used this to pump wine from the cellar up to a bottling rack and it worked great and was a lot quieter than our old pump.

Great pump! Well worth the price!

self priming. powerful enough to drain a 20 gallon tank in about 9 minutes. rubber grommets on the bottom allow you to screw it to a wood or metal stand and not have the unit vibrate or make vibration noises as it rubs on the stand during use. it is a small and compact size with a power cord that is long enough (there is no on-off switch but you could build one in with some basic electrical techniques and supplies.

I've been using a Shurflo Diaphragm Pump for 4+ years and I'm very pleased with it. If you believe that diaphragm pumping is "easier" on the wine than centrifugal action pumping this is a very economical diaphragm pump for home winemakers or a small winery to use for racking or transferring wine. Using the in-line filter is a must. The suction lift and pumping pressure are very good. Used properly this is pretty much a maintenance free pump. I just purchased a second Shurflo to multi-task and have a back-up pump.

A reasonable pump for low volume (750 L) racking. Not good for moving free wine from the fermenter even with a screen filter on the suction side of the pump. I’m on my second pump. The diaphragm went bad after 4 years. Would be nice to be able to replace the pump only at a reasonable price.

Great Pump for the price. Quiet fast for it's size. Great service and advice from MoreWine.

Works great. Plug it into an outlet on a switch because it comes on automatically when hooked up to power. If you want you can get a resistor to change the speed but I've found that it foams very little even less than my old diaphragm pump I got from this site with variable speed option and it doesn't electrocute me like the other one does either!

Good transfer pump. No spred control so be careful of oxygenation.

I got this primarily to transfer beer out of a 55 gallon barrel that my club has into kegs. I first used it to transfer 10 gallons from the Speidel 60L (FE720) fermenter sitting on the ground into a sankey keg and it worked like a charm. Sankey kegs can be a pain to get beer into but this made it simple. Perhaps the easiest transfer I've ever done.

Pretty good pump. Used to transfer beer. Doesn't have control for pumping speed so can get oxygen if not careful.

One reason why I love this pump...no priming no priming no priming.

I have successfully used this pump for two years and think it is very functional even though I had to mount it on a board and install an on-off plug and switch for ease of use. During my latest use it became necessary to move the pump a few inches. The hoses were connected and I moved it without disconnecting them. During the move the Upper Housing of the pump snapped off near the hose connection and will need to be replaced. I feel the Upper Housing design should have anticipated such movement and been designed stronger.

ShurFlo beats out March ("The Howler") by a country mile. Two years of beer making and it still operates good as new. March quit after 6 mos. The on-off aspect of the metered pumping is different than the constant flow of March but the end result is the same.

This pump is perfect for moving around small (hobbyist) amounts of wine at 3 gal per minute. One observation by another reviewer is that having an on/off switch is very handy as it's moving wine quickly. When you turn it off it stops immediately and no more wine dribbles out so its very precise as you fill carboys or barrels. One can pick up an on/off switch that plugs into the wall and has a three prong attachment. They are very handy. I highly recommend purchasing the additional filter. Wine that I thought was very clean had gunk (little wood particles seeds...) that were caught by the filter before going into the pump. It was a small investment to protect the pump and to insure that no unexpected materials ended up in my wine. It would have been helpful if the pump indicated which nozzel is intake and which outflow. Simple enough to figure out when you turn it on but they could have had a marking or shown a picture.