I had three of the original pinters I found it a good system, yes the build quality was suspect but they quickly replaced any faulty parts and between the three I found the bits that matched well. My main reason for selling it on was that it was a lot of work for 10 pints I would prefer to invest more time but have a proper system and get higher batches to ultimately reduce the number of brews like maybe brew only once a month or every 6 weeks. It wasn’t all negative though I liked getting to try the different types and generally I got a good brew, don’t think any failed on me, plus the packaging and customer service were amazing. Just too frequent a brew cycle for me.