Via Samizdata -> the Spectator:

If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214. So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.

Lately I've had a taste for Fat Tire Amber Ale from New Belgium Brewing. A local road house has it on tap. It does come in cans, but it isn't available near by in that package, and more experienced drinkers tell me that it isn't as good as the draft. So, I'll invest in my spare tire, which is in need of recapitalization. I don't have a pony keg yet, but I do have a six pack.