Gustav Lorenz Becker was born in Winona, Minnesota. He was a son of the pioneer Winona brewer John S. Becker, who with his wife Katharine Marie raised Gustav and his siblings in the Becker family brewery on the bluffs of the Mississippi.

In 1892 the Beckers sold the Winona brewery and John S. and Gustav moved west to build a new brewery in the town of Ogden Utah. Despite its proximity to the Mormon enclave of Salt Lake, Ogden was considered a (comparatively) lawless frontier town at the time. It was well situated near Promontory Point, where the Golden Spike had been laid to join America's East and West by rail. The town was dubbed "Junction City" for the connection at Ogden Station of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads.

When the Beckers imagined hundreds of daily travelers, thirsty and bored on their stopovers in the dusty frontier town, they surely thought that the Ogden was ripe for a brewery. On June 6th, 1892 the Becker Brewing & Malting Company was established with $50,000 in capital stock, of which John S. Becker and Gustav controlled about $15,000. Gustav's younger brother Albert came in from Chicago the following January and took his place among the brewery managers.

The brewery was, as expected, a great success, and when Temperance forces threatened production in Utah the family erected a second Becker plant just over the border in Evanston, Wyoming.

The Ogden brewery was indeed closed in 1918 by Utah State Prohibition but reopened upon repeal. Despite the restrictive Utah liquor laws the brewery was a regional powerhouse for another 30 years, sending beer to the coast of California and into all of the mountain states.

Gustav Lorenz Becker died on the 12th of January, 1947 at age 78 years. The brewery was shuttered in 1965 and its flagship brand Becker's Beer was sold to the Tivoli Brewery of Denver, Colorado, which produced it until its own demise in the mid 1970s.

Albert Ernest Becker was born in Winona, Minnesota. He was a son of the pioneer Minnesota brewer John S. Becker, who with his wife Katharine Marie (Fehr) raised Albert and his siblings in the Becker family brewery on the bluffs of the Mississippi. In the late 1880s Albert relocated to Chicago, Illinois to take a opportunity in the West Side Brewery in that city. He had risen to the position of Superintendent of the firm before his father and older brother Gustav Lorenz summoned him to Ogden, Utah to help manage the brewery they had just purchased from their former partner in Winona, William Schellhas. Albert arrived in Ogden in January of 1893 and was installed as Vice President. Becker's Bohemian Beer was released on April 1st. The Becker Brewing & Malting Co. was the first brewery in Northern Utah and its location in the town of Ogden was perfect. Ogden served nine railroads and had been nicknamed "Junction City" for the connection at Ogden Station of two of the largest, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific. Along with a daily supply of new customers the town was fed with fresh mountain water coming from Ogden Canyon. The brewery thrived and became a regional powerhouse, sending its product from Colorado to the West Coast and north to the Canadian border. In 1902 Becker married Josephine Aadnesen who sadly died in childbirth in 1909. In 1910 Albert remarried to Nellie Jane Carruth. Between them Albert fatherered eight children. In 1918 Utah prohibition laws forced the Becker Brewery to move its beer making business across the border to Evanston, Wyoming and the Ogden plant was converted to the soda pop and near beer business. Beer-making returned to Ogden upon the repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933 and the newly dubbed Becker Products Co. debuted their new flagship "Becker's Best" in 1934. The Wyoming plant shut its doors in 1951 but the Ogden brewery continued on. Albert Ernest Becker died on the 15th of January, 1961 at 89 years of age. His brewery was closed just four years later.