Learn about past Golden Beer Talks. The talks prior to 2023 are available for download as podcasts!
June 16, 2026
Joshua Wiener
Art in Public Places
May 19, 2026
Dr. Becky Brice, U.S.G.S
Going to Extremes to Uncover the Secrets of Dinosaur National Monument’s Ponderosa Pine
May 19, 2026
Dr. Becky Brice, U.S.G.S
Going to Extremes to Uncover the Secrets of Dinosaur National Monument’s Ponderosa Pine
April 21, 2026
Fred Mosqueda, Outreach Specialist for the Arapaho Language and Culture Program
Past and Future of Arapaho in Present-Day Colorado
March 17, 2026
James Johnson
Space Resources & Habitation: Living off the Land
February 17, 2026
Peter and Nancy Torpey
Tips and Tech for Easier Living as Vision Changes
January 20, 2026
Dr. Jeff Squier
Structured light imaging: optical metrology for applications from advanced manufacturing to the biosciences
December 16, 2025
Phil Weiser – Attorney General of Colorado
Serving as the People’s Lawyer
November 18, 2025
Sydney Mauck – History Colorado’s Anchutz Military Collections Specialist
Women’s Army Corps of Camp Hale
October 21, 2025
Brian Keating
Wildland Fire Program Manager – Jeffco Sheriff’s Office
September 16, 2025
Linda Shapley
Putting More Local in Local Journalism
August 19, 2025
Dr. Catherine Lozupone
The Role of the Intestinal Microbiome in Health
July 15, 2025
Tyler Kerr, Director of Clear Creek Makerspace
What Is A Makerspace—And How Did More Than 5,500 of them Pop Up Around the World in the Past 20 Years?
June 17, 2025
Meg Van Ness
Ancient Things in Wild Places: Traces of Native Americans and Historic People on the National Wildlife Refuges
May 20, 2025
Off-Site at the Astor House
The Past, Present, and Future of a Golden Landmark
Jasmine Saxon and Jessica Ericson (Archaeologists) – Marcie Miller (Golden Landmarks Association) – Maura Adamson (Foothills Art Center)
April 15, 2025
100th Golden Beer Talk!
Lightening Talks from Past Speakers
John Spear (2014) – Scott Grossman (2017) – Jeff Squier (2014) – Jenny Truax and (2024) – Jim Dale (2014) – Carla Zinanti (2023)
March 18, 2025
Tom Schweich and Ann Norton – Stewards of Golden Open Space
Golden Open Space
January 21, 2025
Russ Schumacher – Colorado State Climatologist
The past, present, and future of Colorado’s weather and climate
November 19, 2024
Terre Deegan-Young
One Woman’s Vietnam War Experience
October 15, 2024
Sydney Mauck – History Colorado
10th Mountain Division: Soldiers on Skis
September 17, 2024
Tim Regan-Porter – CEO, Colorado Press Association
Dan Grech – Founder & CEO – Bizhack Academy
Artificial Intelligence in Journalism
August 20, 2024
Dr. Tanja Rauch-Williams – Metro Water Recovery
Out of Sight, Out of Mind:
A Fascinating Journey through 50 years of Sanitary Water Treatment Sustaining the Livelihood of the Front Range and the City of Golden.
July 16, 2024
Dr. Dendy Sloan
Marv Kay and Three Golden Heroes
June 18, 2024
Lisa Clark and Jenny Truax
accompanied by Twig and Fido, their respective guide dog puppies
Raising Puppies with Guide Dogs for the Blind
May 21, 2024
Kathleen Ermitage and Alan Cogen
The Art of Collaboration in Making a Film & Colorado Connections
April 16, 2024
Frank Blaha
The Most Successful Federal Program You Have Never Heard of – The Army Horse Breeding Program
March 19, 2024
Rex Rideout – Musician and Storyteller of the American West
Songs and Stories of Beer
January 19, 2024
Dr. Jeff Bennett
Total Solar Eclipse Visible in North America in April 2024
Featured Brewery: New Terrain Brewing
November 21, 2023
Pete McCormick – Denver Water
Northwater Treatment Plant Design and Construction
Featured Brewery: New Image Brewery
October 17, 2023
Kate Hogan
Power of Pollinators: Hummingbirds, Butterflies, and Native Bees
Featured Brewery: Cannonball Creek
September 19, 2023
Dr. Dan Berlau
Sound and Color: Can Brown Noise Help with Sleep, Focus, ADHD, and Other Issues?
Featured Brewery: AC Golden
August 15, 2023
Donna Anderson
Golden’s Mining Roots and Their Legacies
Featured Brewery: Coda Brewing
June 20, 2023
Topic: Celebrating Golden Arts Week with Golden’s Celebrated Artist
Speaker: Jesse Crock
Featured Brewery: Mountain Toad
May 16, 2023
Topic: Living in Space: Creating Habitation and Infrastructure for Humans to Live and Work in Orbit, on the Moon, and Beyond
Speaker: Rowan Palmer
Featured Brewery: Holidaily Brewing
March 21, 2023
Topic: Enlightening Thoughts on Local News
Speaker: Dana Coffield, Co-Founder of The Colorado Sun
Featured Brewery: New Terrain
February 21, 2023
Topic: Golden Folks
Speaker: Povy Atchison, Photographer of Golden Folks exhibit at Golden History Museum
Featured Brewery: Over Yonder Brewing
January 17, 2023
Topic: Wildfire Large Animal Evacuations
Speaker: Carla Zinanti – Jefferson County Animal Control Manager
Introduction: Frank Blaha – Jefferson County Horsemen
Featured Brewery: Golden City Brewery
AT HOME EDITION
October, 2020
Becky Brice, USGS
Tree Rings and Snow: an inside peek at paleoenvironmental research
September, 2020
Dr. Dendy Sloan
On Bias In the Brains Of Good People
August, 2020
Carol O’Meara
Victory Gardens
July, 2020
Claire Zilber, MD
Zoom Fatigue
classic beer talks
March 10, 2020
Dr. Michael Kerwin, Director of Environmental Science and Geology Programs, University of Denver
Topic – The Day Cape Town Nearly Ran Out of Water: Implications for Drought and Water Supply in the Denver Area
February 11, 2020
Claire Zilber, MD
Topic – MAN UP! The Shame-Based Roots of Misogyny
January 14, 2019
Charlie Sturdavant, Founder, Golden City Brewery and Sherpa Brewery
Topic – Sherpa Brewery, Five Years Later
December 10, 2019
Barb Warden, Goldentoday.com
Topic – Funiculars of Golden Colorado
November 12, 2019
Bob Raynolds, PhD
Topic – Australopithecines to the Anthropocene: A Geologist’s View of Where We Came from and Where We Are Going
October 15, 2019
Don Sweetkind, Geologist
Topic – From Uravan to Rulison: Tales from Colorado’s Nuclear Past
September 3rd, 2019
Becky Brice, United States Geological Survey
Topic – Tree rings and snow drought: what trees tell us about our changing snowpack
August 13th, 2019
Woody Tasch, Founder of Slow Money
Topic – SLOW MONEY: The Front Range and Beyond
July 9th, 2019
Bill Kilpatrick – Golden Police Chief
Topic – Keeping the Peace in our Golden, Colorado Community.
June 11, 2019
Jim Clawson, PhD – Stellar Solutions, Inc., Technical Advisor, NASA
Topic – Boots on the Moon
May 14th, 2019
Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza, Ocean First Institute
Topic – The World of Sharks
April 9th, 2019
Christina Burri, Denver Water
Topic – Healthy Forests, Healthy Watersheds
March 12th, 2019
Lisa Gardiner, UCAR Center for Science Education
Topic – Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change
February 12th, 2019
Claire Zilber, MD
Topic – Immune Responses to Stress and Loss
January 8, 2019
Dr. Tom Casadevall, U.S Geological Survey
Title: Preserving and Promoting America’s Geoheritage
December 11, 2018
Jeff Roberts, Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition
Title: Your Right to Know
November 13, 2018
Frank Blaha, Environmental Engineer (and Beer Ambassador)
Title: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
October 9, 2018
Jim Reed, Director of R&D at RockWare, Inc. and Volunteer with volunteer with NecroSearch International
Title: Applying Geological Exploration Methods Towards Locating Clandestine Graves Related to Homicide Investigations
September 11, 2018
Joseph Kerski – Environmental Systems Research Institute
Title: Good Maps, Bad Maps, Location Privacy, and Why It All Matters
August 14, 2018
Dr. Mike Bell – National Park Service Air Resources Division
Topic: Using Science to Influence Management of our National Parks
July 10, 2018
Archivist Erin McDanal of the Colorado State Archives
Topic – Responses to Drought by Colorado’s Governors.
June 12, 2018
Dr. Carla Klehm, Assistant Professor Adjunct at University of Colorado Boulder
Topic – From My Coolest Archaeological Find in Africa to Why Wakanda from Marvel’s Black Panther Movie is (Almost) a Real Place
May 12, 2018
Johanna Kovarik, U.S.Forest Service, National Cave and Karst Program Coordinator
Topic – A Life Underground: Studying and Stewarding the Magical Subterranean World of Caves
March 13, 2018
Cartographer Catherine Costello – USGS
Topic – Mapping & Tracking Wildland Fires
February 13, 2018
Speaker – Brian J. Simonds, Physicist – National Institute of Standards and Technology
Topic – Lasers for Manufacturing – Using Light for Welding
January 9, 2018
Speaker – Rex Rideout
Topic – History of the American West through Music and Lyrics
December 12, 2017
Speaker – Joyce Tannian
Warriors, Water, and Wild Beasts: Quenching Thirst Peacefully in the Shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro
November 14, 2017
Speaker – Margaret Blaha
Topic – The Horse Protection League
October 10, 2017
Speaker – Adrian Miller
Topic -The President’s Kitchen Cabinet
September 12, 2017
Speaker – Philip Skaff of Metropolitan State University
Topic – Inflammation and Human Heath
August 8, 2017
Trevor Pellerite, the President of the Colorado Prairie Initiative
Topic – Colorado Prairie Initiative
June 13, 2017
Speaker – Daniel McNamara – Research Geophysicist with the USGS
Topic – Forecasting Natural and Human-Caused Earthquakes
May 9, 2017
Speaker – Project Manager Scot Grossman, Jefferson County Open Space
Topic – Peaks to Plains
April 11, 2017
Speaker – Carol O’Meara, Colorado State University Extension Horticulture Entomologist
Topic – Growing Hops and Tomatoes in the Rocky Mountain Region
March 14, 2017
Speaker – Jim Clarke, Associated Press Regional Director for Eight States
Topic – This Just In: How to Spot Fake News
February 14, 2017
Speaker – Dr. John Spear, Colorado School of Mines Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Topic – From Mars to Europa: A Comparison of 82N 82W & 23N 58E
January 10, 2017
Speaker – Dr. Keith Neeves,
Colorado School of Mines Chemical & Biological Engineering Department and University of Colorado Denver Department of Pediatrics
Topic – Injectable Microbots for Removing Blood Clots
December 13, 2016
Speaker – Fred Linton
Topic – MillerCoors Environmental Sustainability
November 15, 2016
Speaker – Rick Grubin
Topic – Avalanche Safety
October 11, 2016
Speaker – Jason Hanson
Topic – Brew Your Own: The History of Home Brewing in America
September 13, 2016
Speaker – Ken Regelson
Topic – 100% Renewables? Let’s Go!
July 12, 2016
Speaker – Dr. Robert G. Hancock, Metropolitan State University, Denver
Topic – Mosquitoes, Bed Bugs and Other Blood-Sucking Monsters
June 14, 2016
Speakers – Judy Denison and Don Parker
Topic – Save The Mesas: How a Local Citizen Group Fought for Golden’s Trademark Open Space
May 10, 2016
Speaker – Deputy State Historian Jason Hason
Topic – Beer Here! A Local History of Brewing in Colorado
April 12, 2016
Speaker – Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines
Topic – The Evolution of Wind Energy in Colorado and Beyond
March 8, 2016
Speaker – Dr. Kenneth Gage, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Topic – Plague and Other Vector-Borne Diseases in Colorado
February 9, 2016
Speaker – Darren Beck
Topic – Our Precious Platte River: Endangered Species Recovery and Habitat Restoration
January 12, 2016
Speaker – Dr. Jeffrey Bennett
Topic – An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and its 100th Anniversary
December 8, 2015
Speaker – Jason Slowinski, Golden City Manager
Topic – Being Jason Slowinski
November 10, 2015
Speaker – Andrew Novick
Topic – The Atomic Clock: What Time it is—And Why
October 13, 2015
Speaker – Mark Overly
Topic – A Coffee Journey to Sumatra
September 8, 2015
Speaker – Melanie Fischer – Colorado River Recovery Program
Topic – An Overview of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program
August 11, 2015
Speaker – Former Golden Mayor Jacob Smith
Topic – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Reflections on Two Years in “the District”
July 14, 2015
Speaker – Dr. Catherine Lozupone, University of Colorado at Denver Professor in Medicine and Microbiology
Topic – How the trillions of bacteria that inhabit your gut influence your health
June 9, 2015
Speaker – John Knight, International Organizer World Fly Fishing Champions
Topic – World Youth Fly Fishing Championships Come to Colorado
May 12, 2015
Speaker – Dr. Jeffrey Lockwood
University of Wyoming
Topic – Legend of the Lost Locust
April 14, 2015
Speakers – Charlie Sturdavant of Golden City Brewery and Lhakpa Sherpa of Golden’s Sherpa House Restaurant
Topic – Golden City Brewery Goes to Nepal
March 10, 2015
Speaker – Quint Redmond
Topic – Agriburbia: Growing Sustainable Communities by the Bushel
February 10, 2015
Speaker – Bill Philpott
Topic – Interstate 70: The History of the Highway We Love to Hate
January 13, 2015
Speaker – Jonathon Stalls
Topic – The Endless Benefits of Life at 3 MPH – Walking Across America
December 9, 2014
Speaker – Jim Clawson, Systems Engineer
Topic – Orion EFT1: The First Flight of America’s Newest Spaceship
November 11, 2014
Speaker – Dr. Mark Eberhart
Topic – Science, Energy and the National Strategic Narrative
October 14, 2014
Speaker – Dr. James White
Topic – Climate Change and You – What everyone should know
September 9, 2014
Speaker – Dr. Dendy Sloan and Dr. Cynthia Norrgran
Topic – Three Minds and Memory
August 12, 2014
Speaker – Dr. Jeff Squier, Department Head of Physics at Colorado School of Mines
Topic – Laser Pulses: Focusing Light in Time & Space
July 8, 2014
Speaker – BECKY BRICE
Topic – Tree Rings and the Future of the Colorado River
June 10, 2014
Speaker – JASON HANSON
Topic – A Ditch in Time: The City, The West, and Water
May 13, 2014
Speaker – KEITH ROUNDS
Topic – Cowboy Poetry
April 8, 2014
MIASpeaker – MIA SULLIVAN, BEE KEEPER
Topic – Keeping Bees and Making Honey
March 11, 2014
Speaker – MIKE BESTOR, CITY MANAGER OF GOLDEN
Topic – State of the City
February 11, 2014
Speaker – DR. JOHN SPEAR
Topic – Rocks, Rust, and Fish: Why Microbes Matter
January 14, 2014
DR. JIM DALE
Topic – The Three D’s of Public Health in our Community
December 10, 2013
Speaker – Adam Pender
Topic – Why Go to Space
November 12th, 2013
Speaker – Finn Knudsen
Topic – Beer and Health
October 8, 2013
Speaker – Adrian Miller
Topic – Soul Food
June 16, 2026
Art in Public Places
Joshua is one of two public artists selected to install artwork in the new City of Golden municipal building. In this talk he will discuss his site-specific artwork focused on creating an experience in a space. Inherent in his artistic perspective is his background, interests, and ambitions and the way that he integrates these into the work he creates for cities around the country. Learn how his projects are developed, designed, fabricated, and installed including finished art and working imagery from his studio.
Featured Speaker: Joshua Wiener
Joshua Wiener has been creating public art for over twenty years, and his public sculptures can be found around the country. He designs, fabricates, and installs all of his own work. His studio is located in Boulder, Colorado and is equipped for any size project. Joshua has created sculptures for gateways, roundabouts, transit stations, parks, and crosswalks. He has created 3-Dimensional sculpture, gates/fences, 2-Dimensional works, water features, suspended works, and incorporated lighting into his sculptures. He has also worked on flood projects, bridge enhancements, park revitalizations, building facades, etc. Joshua is a versed sculptor (he can create anything). He has also been on design teams and served as a committee member for public art as well as juried numerous shows.
In 2023, Joshua was appointed Managing Director of the annual summer stone sculpting symposium, The Marble Institute of Colorado, of which he has also been an instructor for over 15 years and full-time staff member for 28 years. He taught at the Art Students League in Denver for over four years and has taught workshops at the Denver Art Museum and The Colorado Academy. In 2009, Joshua completed a residency at PlatteForum in Denver working with at-risk youth. In 1999, Joshua co-founded Art in Your Park, a 501c3 non-profit that has provided communities the avenue to create art and music in public places at no cost to the community.
Coming from a sculpting family, Joshua has a strong desire to engage the public with inspirational art. Joshua expresses “I want to be involved with creating art that will be used to give an image to a place and be a beacon for our time.”
Featured Brewery: Golden City Brewery
May 19, 2026
Going to Extremes to Uncover the Secrets of Dinosaur National Monument’s Ponderosa Pine
U.S. National Parks and Monuments are tasked with planning for climate change impacts on their natural resources. One aspect of such climate readiness is the documentation of unique resources that may hold specific sensitivity in a warmer, drier future. While ponderosa pine is common in western North American lower montane forests, small and isolated old-growth stands are unusual. Dinosaur National Monument’s isolated ponderosa pine trees on the meander benches of the Yampa and Green rivers are a unique, undocumented resource of ecological and cultural importance. Their tree rings also hold the potential to reveal new insights about the environmental conditions leading to their establishment and sustainability. A clear understanding of the prevalence, age, and environmental information contained in these trees may be critical to their management now and conservation in the future. But, to study these trees, researchers must go to extremes on the wild rivers of Dinosaur National Monument.
Featured Speaker: Becky Brice
Becky Brice is an earth systems geographer using tree rings and lake sediments to study paleoclimate, hydroclimatic processes, wildfire, and the interaction between drought and human systems. She specializes in tree-ring based reconstructions over the last 2,000 years and her research aims to understand the role of climate variability in changing environmental conditions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in French, a Bachelor of Science in Geology, Master’s in Geography from the University of Denver, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Arizona. She has a dual role at the United States Geological Survey where she conducts research about past water and climate and manages national-scale wildland fire-science teams.