Product review (1 stars): The water tasted funny...
The water filter we received looked different than the product shown here.  It was an Aqua Fresh brand filter.  This really shouldn't have mattered.  I have been buying this style of filter for 12 years or so and have bought from several different companies and they have all functioned the same with no bad tastes.  This filter, however, made our water taste worse than what came out of the tap.  It had a rubber or chemical taste that was too overpowering.  So much so, that after several weeks of finding myself offering my visitors and ultimately my family bottled water instead of the filtered water out of our fridge, I broke down and went to a big hardware store to purchase a name brand filter.  I was very displeased by this product and won't be purchasing an off brand water filter from Amazon in the future.  ...And yes, we ran a couple of gallons through the filter before using.  And again somewhere mid-way before we bought the new filter.  It didn't help.