Well I bought a Buon Vino Super Jet Filter system. I got it used and the guy said the pump wasn't working correctly. So i fixed it but probably needs a new check valve. Anyway I went ahead and filtered 5 gallons of semi-sweet sparkling mead, orange blossom. It came out looking beautiful, crystal clear and a beautiful amber hue. The next 5 gals was semi-sweet lime mead and it too came out crystal clear, the problem was both batches had excessive oxygenation from the pump not working correctly. It didn't have the suction and pressure to create a consistent stream. This created hollows in the 1/2 I.D. tubing thereby allowing oxygen to mix into the mead. Toward the end of the sweet lime mead run it started to work correctly by filling the entire tubing with fluid. Anyway, seeing as I'm force carbonating the sparkling mead I don't care, but the Sweet lime had tons of air pumped into it. When I filtered it into a new plastic ferementor with spigot, I guess the natural attraction and static electricity made the oxygen bubbles cling to the buckets sides and the spigot leaked. GO GLASS plastic sucks. SO I racked into a 5 gal glass carboy and most of the air escaped. First bottle I tried from plastic I could see all the bubbles rising in the bottle, then from the glass carboy no bubbles coming out of the subsequent bottles. Mead looks absolutely brilliant. For those of you looking in filtering don’t use the sterile filter it took out some of the honey nose definitely and actually made it seem harsher. Anyway, the process I took was rack 2 5 gallon carboys, sparkolloid for 1 day, racked again and then filtered with just the #2 filter which is the fine. On the sparkling mead as a first time I tried the sterile, won’t do that again.