Miller Fortune
"Spirited Golden Lager. Open Pandora’s Bottle."
2.3
264 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
From a 12 oz bottle. Pours a straw copper with little head/carbonation. Consistency is syrupy. It’s honestly difficult to detect a nose on this beer, slight sweet smell. Taste is mute followed by a slight bitter linger. This stuff honestly isn’t that bad.
Drank straight from the bottle, courtesy the in-laws. Aroma is grainy, biscuits and weird paint. Flavor is like play doh, strange grains and metal. Now I understand why I hear so many people complain about their in-laws.
For 6.9% abv and being from Miller, I think this is a good beer out of the mass-produced ones. It’s a light/medium body, hides the alcohol fairly well and there is no unpleasant tastes.
Bottle from Roth’s. Medium copper in color. Nose is pretty grainy with a little bit of maltiness. Flavor is grainy with a little malt and a touch of fusel alcohol. Pretty good for a malt liquor.
Been sitting in the back of the fridge for a while after it was on a
99 cent rack at Antioch - looking for the tick by style. Very clear
yellowish orange pour. Off white head with some streaky lace. 4 Corn
and earth in the nose. Strong basement smells. Taste is bland;
earth, corn, some light fruit. Yeast is a bit tangy. Medium bodied
with some alcohol presence. Finishes short and rough. Shrug? Glad
not reliant on malt liquor in my life. 9.5
OK, so it’s a macro, but give it a fair shake. Pours clear, pale amber with a thick but effervescent eggshell head - not impressive, but not off-putting. Aroma is on the weak side, malty and a little fruity. Flavor is passable, malty, fruity, a bit sweet. Smooth texture has average body and just a little fizz. Well, had to try it.
Poured from a 12 OZ bottle into a pint glass.
Aroma- Has a real malty smell, OK smelling not great.
Appearance- A dark amber color with a small white head.
Taste- A corn and malt flavor that was pretty good.
Palate- A medium bodied, highly carbonated beer with a creamy texture
Overall- Not a world class brew, then again it wasn’t brewed to be, it is an inexpensive session beer that has a high ABV. You get what you pay for and this is great for tailgating.
Pours a beautiful almost amber color. Pretty thick poofy off white head, quite a shocker. It looks inviting.
Aroma is a little metallic, a little hoppy. A little floral, also a little alcohol.
Taste is a little stout. I can certainly taste the alcohol in it. I can also taste some apple. Just took a sip, I think I could taste some grape. Interesting taste.
Mouthfeel is light. Taste doesn’t linger, goes down easy. Perhaps too easy. Maybe slightly filmy aftertaste, also metallic.
Overall, it’s pretty good. Not something I would grab again. Perhaps a little too much alcohol for my liking. I keep adjusting my ratings, because I really don’t know how I feel about it. It’s worth a try.
Pours a wonderful golden color with a soapy head that if you blink you’ll miss with how fast it disappears. No lacing on the glass at all. Smell is nothing special, some sweetness, some skunkiness. Tasting follows the smell, no alcohol taste, some sweetness there. I had it not as cold as usual so I may be tasting more of the beer than they "intended". No lingering taste or after taste makes it easy to drink. It’s nothing to celebrate, but I might get it again if it was cheap.
Bottle from my neighbor. Not the worst Miller beer I’ve had. But still swill. If you have a really vivid imagination, you can just think you’re drinking a chocolaty bock...which it does resemble, on the tongue...but once it hits the palate that all changes.
Made me feel pretty good, though.
Bottle->shaker. Clear blonde with big frothy white head. A: lager grains and malt, grass, hint of peat. T: mild, with malt, spice. Not nearly as bad as I expected.
Appearance - dark? not sure , I drink it from the bottle
Taste - Very Good , Very drinkable, not really filling or sickening after 2-3
Don’t let the 6.9% scare you, it’s a steady buzz like all beer (Should) be.
If you’re an American light beer lover, it’s not for you - It tastes like beer.
Only 2 complaints -
1. Dark packaging color - when looking for it in a store cooler it’s invisible.
2. All 3 local stores stopped selling it???
You know you may be in denial about your drinking problem when you find yourself in a Shell station around midnight and you’re grabbing a 24oz can of something you wouldn’t buy unless you were desperate, and the choices were this or Corona (...and I’d rather drink my own fucking piss than that horrible Mexican skunk shit) so that’s how we got here. Anyway, yeah so this pours an orange gold, medium whitish head, actually decent retention and some lacing. Nose is kind of caramelized corn sugar and some malt, candy like, touch metallic. Mouth is medium bodied, mildly sweet, some caramel, sponge cake, corn, and finishes a touch tart on the fadeaway. I hate to say it... because I am certainly not a Miller fan or for that matter been much of a ’malt liquor’ drinker since my high school days 25+ years ago, smoking herb and hanging out in the park... but this is actually not bad. Way better than Colt 45, or OE, St. Ide’s, Crazy Horse etc.
Nice amber pour with an off-white head. Aroma is corn and cereal grains. Taste is a little sweet, cereal grain. little malt aftertaste.
Pours a clear copper color with a small white head that didn’t last long and left no lacing hardly on the glass. The aroma bready, grassy, some hops. The taste consists of alcohol, breadiness, and some mild hop bitterness thrown in as well. The finish is quite dry and the mouthfeel is light to medium.
Can.
A- Corn, grains, cereal.
A- Amber color, clear liquid, white head.
T- Corn, cereal, metallic, watery.
P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish.
O- This is more of a pale lager or amber ale than malt liquor in my opinion. But my opinion is also that it sucks. Had a pretty nice head but that’s it.
24oz can in Seattle. Well, interesting. More golden, pale clean lager, soapy head. Tart-sour sweet malt, ’premium’ lager apple sweetness, but some more balanced yeast-malt as well. Smooth creamy body, heavier ’premium’ style on the typical lager base, but sweet full flavor isn’t really that terrible. in a really relative, plug your nose and squint kind of way.
Tasted on 1/22/15 from a capped 12oz bottle purchased at the local Kroger. Pours clear copper with an average white head that quickly recedes to a thin collar of lace. The nose is a ton of sweet corn with an extremely light vanilla and caramel note. The flavor is a bit more vanilla up front with some sweet caramel and corn. The body is medium with lively fizzy carbonation and a medium sweet vanilla and corn finish.
12 ounce single bottle from Hickory Tavern in Charlotte, NC, but widely available everywhere. Pours a clear orange color with a small head. Aroma is malt and some grains. Medium sweet flavor with a better than expected finish. Better than what I thought it would be.
It pours a crystal clear 24th colour with a small and quickly receding head of foam.
The smell is of sweet malt ala a malt liquor with less of a grain nose than I expected.
The taste is also malt liquor like but not offensively so. Maybe I would call this a malt liquor light? Sweet, more of a corn grain thing going on than in the smell.
Well, this isn’t half bad but I reckon that I won’t bother to revisit.
I really like Fortune. I am just starting to learn about beers and discovered that I like a medium body beer. I tried Fortune about 2 months after it was released after seeing the adverts on youtube about 2000 times. I got a 6 pack for a friend and I to split and I really enjoyed it. My friend didn’t enjoy it as much as I did but he likes a lighter beer than this. But, he did say he likes the sweet flavors that this beer can give off. The beer has a nice orange-ish tint after you get it out of that fantastic looking bottle. The Aromas are not that of a rose batch, but you won’t be afraid to drink it. The taste, like I’ve said are quite pleasing to me. The beer gives of a nice sweet, but not over power flavor as well as some fruit and floral hints. About the only thing I don’t like about the beer is that it don’t have a twist off lid, it is a pop off.
little aroma. dark golden and clear with little head. strong flavor upfront, fast fading taste
Bottle at home. Pours an orangish gold with a thin white head. Aroma is malt. Some alcohol. Slight floral. Flavor follows and is very sweet. Medium bodied. Finishes clean. Decent beer.
Pours clear orange with a short head. Minimal retention and lace. Nose of corn malt and some heat. Medium sweet flavor. Medium body, sticky texture, average carbonation and a malty mid-sweet blah finish.
Transfer from BA review on 2-28-14-
Poured from can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a crystal clear deeper amber color with a tiny fizzy white head. The head fades rather fast to leave the tiniest level of fizzy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is sweeter overall with aromas of caramel and toffee as well as some lighter hints of a more peach and apricot fruit nature. With these aromas are some quite light oaky and woodsy aromas as well as a bit of a doughy smell.
Taste – The taste begins a lightly roasted and drier flavor with some notes of a fruit nature of apricot and peach. These fruits are quite light with them being complemented by a very light caramel as well, bringing a lighter level of sweetness to the brew overall. While upfront the taste is on the slightly crisper side, as the flavor advances other flavors of a more oaky and bourbon flavor begin coming to the tongue as well, taking away from the crispness. The oak and bourbon flavors are rather decent, but unfortunately they are not the only flavors that come to the tongue at this time. Some more grainy and other more astringent flavors with some medicine like tastes as well as a bit of hay and grass come to the tongue. With the advent of the bourbon, oak, medicine and hay that come to the tongue, one is left with a slightly none-complimentary and off flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer on the thinner side in terms of thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is on the medium to higher side. Overall the feel was decent, as it was nice of the crisper tastes of the beer upfront, all while not over accentuating some of the more off flavors of the brew that come more toward the end of the taste.
Overall – Really nothing too spectacular here in my opinion. The bourbon flavors decent, but with the off flavors that accompany them, it really pulls away from the quality of the brew.
Pours a clear gold and nice frothy Head. Aroma. Is sweet corn malts and a very slight caramel note and slight. Citrus note. Taste follows the aroma with a medium Mouth feel. Not bad really for a macro brew I’m actually Impressed
I’ve never rated beer before, but Miller Fortune is the BEST I’ve ever consumed. Most beer after awhile makes one gag at its aroma to the point you don’t want to drink beer anymore. So, I turned to wine. But a friend offered a Miller Fortune, I was skeptical, but I tried it. I’ve been hooked ever since.
The taste is smooth, inviting and just plain yummy. Please continue supplying my local stores and I hope to see it in most restaurants very SOON! Well Done Miller!
Miller has something going on with this brew. Smooth, Strong and Cheap just like I like my women. No, really this beer is priced well, and truly is very smooth to the palate. Fortune is a nice everyday brew to come home to after a hard day of work.
its nice dark yellow with lots of foam, which is good. Only taste its too sweet, i don’t like it
12oz bottle from a Tops store in Buffalo, NY. Golden amber with a thin white head and moderate carbonation; grainy aroma; rough corn syrup taste; and an industrial finish. Not good, despite the cool looking bottle - or perhaps because all the money went on marketing, and the bottle, rather than the contents.