The Becker Brewing and Malting Company was founded in the 1890s by the Becker family and was located on the southwest corner of 19th Street and Lincoln Avenue in Ogden, Utah.

Johann Stephan “John S.” Becker was born in December 1829 in Baden, Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. around age 16, settling in Winona, Minnesota, where he and a partner founded a small brewery in Sugar Loaf Village in the 1860s. By the early 1890s, John S. Becker sold his Winona brewery and, together with his eldest son Gustav Lorenzo Becker, moved to Ogden, Utah. They joined forces with brewer William Schellhas to take over and rename the local operation as Becker Brewing & Malting Company, officially established on June 6, 1892.

Albert Ernest Becker (1871-1961), born and raised in Winona, Minnesota, attended Northwestern University before serving a brewing apprenticeship in Chicago from 1890-92. Subsequently, Becker spent a year studying at the Wahl and Henius Research Laboratories. He moved to Ogden, Utah, in 1893 to serve as vice president of the Becker Brewing and Malting Company. In 1906, Becker married Josephine Aadneson of Ogden, and they adopted her nephew Blaine Julius, whose mother had died in childbirth. After she herself died at the birth of their daughter Josephine Katherine in 1909, Becker married Nell Carruth of Coalville, Utah, in 1910. They then added 5 more children (Louise Effie, John Albert, Gustave William, Robert Louis, and Frederick Carruth).