In honor of Friday, the best day of the week I have something special for you all. I don’t know about you but there is nothing I like better on a friday afternoon than an nice cold beer in summer. I think of it as my sort of blue collar toast to the work week. Of course, I can’t consider myself a blue collar worker since I sit at a computer all day, but at least I can pretend I just got done with a strenuous week of construction. Unfortunately a lot of my favorite beers are privately held companies but some are not. I promised myself I will make within the next few months at least a small investment in things I drink. So here are my top 5 company picks with their beer that I drink the most of:

Anheuser Busch - (NYSE:BUD) - Budweiser beer
Who hasn’t had a Bud? Anheuser Busch sells more of the brand than any other beer in the world. There is a huge plant near Fort Collins (we really are the beer capital of the US imo, or at least close). The commercials with the Clydesdales: its all real. No really, its crazy, they have horses out running around playing football at their plant. Well, maybe they don’t play football, but they are definitely out there runnin around. They pay a decent yield and own some theme parks too.

Grupo Modelo - (Public, MXK:GMODELOC) - Pacifico
What says summer better than Mexican beer, with lime? And ok so they make a lot more than Pacifico but I challenge any of you to find me a better Mexican beer than Pacifico Clara. I have a weekly debate with my buddy who loves Negro Modelo and apparently his taste buds are still maturing. He’ll come around.

Molson Coors Brewing Company - (Public, NYSE:TAP) - Blue Moon
Montreal, Canada-based company which owns the Coors Light, Coors, Coors Non-Alcoholic, Blue Moon Belgian White Ale, Blue Moon, Molson Canadian, Molson Dry, Molson Export and Grolsch brand of beers. I can forgive them for Grolsch simply because of Blue Moon. They brew coors not too far from here in Golden Colorado and we always see these ads with streams and rocky mountains and pete coors standing majestically. Sadly, it does not make Coors taste any better. They still made it this high up because I have to rep my Canadian heritage.

Boston Beer Company - (Public, NYSE:SAM) – Samuel Adams Boston Lager beer
Sam Adams is the best tasting of the mass produced beer imo. Plus it has a sweet ticker “SAM”

InBev NV - (Public, EBR:INB) - Leffe Belgian Ales
The international stock offering, I had to include at least one belgian ale cause boy do I love them. Most of the heavier beers I drink are privately held microbreweries but as I was browsing around I stumbled upon InBev, Hallelujah!

**Bonus For Non-Alcoholic Beverage:

Cadbury plc (ADR) - (Public, NYSE:CBY) - Diet Dr Pepper
Now tastes even more like regular Dr Pepper, and now being consumed en mass by Jesse every day.

Now you too can own some stock and tell yourself every day: “I just made a bit of money off of Jesse.” What more can a reader ask for, right? Happy Friday!

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