I bought this about twenty years ago. I brewed beer in it for a decade. Then it sat in a closet for a decade. Today I took it out, reinstalled the standard push button spigot and filled it with 5 gallons of water. A little leaking around the spigot, nothing a washer won’t fix, I’m impressed,
the coolers are what I ordered, delivered intact in a timely manner. we expect they will serve us well and there will not be a funny taste to the water we store in these containers.