Saving the world, one beer at a time
Brittany and Evan LeGarde in their brewhouse at Save the World Brewing Co. in Marble Falls. Staff photo by Dakota Morrissiey
Award-winning Marble Falls brewery hops into growing market
Brittany and Evan LeGarde purchased Save the World Brewing Co. and moved to Marble Falls in 2022. They may have inherited the name of the brewery, but it has become the heart of how they look at the business of making craft beer.
“If I go to the deepest level of what (the name) means in my brain, being fully vulnerable, I hope and pray that this place and our beer is something that is used to bring people together,” Brittany said. “You really hope that we are saving the world.”
Since they took over Save the World, the couple has been pumping out award-winning beer from the heart of the Highland Lakes at their brewery and beer garden on the north side of Marble Falls at 1510 Resource Parkway.
The LeGardes will tell you their beer is for the drinker, not the accolades, but that hasn’t stopped them from taking home some serious hardware.
The brewery won the U.S. Open Beer Championship gold medal in 2024 for its hazy IPA, Chasing Broncos. That win drew the eyes of Forbes magazine and earned the brewers a feature in the publication’s online edition, along with international recognition.
The brewery’s light lager, Cerveza TX, won bronze medals in the 2025 and 2026 U.S. opens, and it was stocked as a seasonal special in H-E-B stores across the Highland Lakes.
“We’ve been fortunate to do really well in certain competitions, but at the end of the day, the goal, with what we do, is to make a really good beer for the average person,” Evan said. “If a beer aficionado happens to like it, that’s a ‘plus one.’”
A lot goes into making a good beer, and the LeGardes got a crash course in the process after taking over Save the World.
“A lot of people don’t really know how beer is made, but they like to drink it,” Evan said. “That’s why it is fun to share with people. When they get a sense of what it takes to make it, they appreciate it even more.”
The brewing process is more science than art, consisting of several steps that must be executed with precision to produce a consistently good beer. But the art of the craft comes from how you choose to take those steps.
“Consistency is super important, because we need our product to taste the same wherever it goes,” Evan said. “There is that little bit of artistry and playing, but we have to be pretty careful that things don’t change too much.”
Depending on the grains you use and how you roast them, the hops you select, the brew time, and the equipment you use to do it, you can create an infinite variety of beers, from light lagers to bitter Indian pale ales (IPAs). The U.S. Open Beer Championship has 180 categories and subcategories.
Without getting too deep in the hops, brewing beer looks a little like this:
- Mill roasted grain (most often barley) and mix it with hot water to extract the starches.
- Separate the starchy liquid (referred to as “wort” in the beer game) from the milled grain.
- Boil the wort and add your hops or other ingredients. (This is where the beer gets its bitterness, strong flavor, and aroma.)
- Let the mixture cool down.
- Add your select variety of yeast to the cooled mixture.
- Let the yeasty brew rest and ferment. In this process, alcohol is produced, carbon dioxide bubbles up, and flavor compounds deepen
- Next, the beer conditions, which can range from days to months depending on the beer you’re going for.
- Finally, you package the beer in your chosen cans, bottles, or kegs using its natural carbonation or by adding pressurized CO2.
The equipment used in this process can vary as well, but Save the World boasts a state-of-the-art setup, with immaculate steel vessels made for brewing enormous quantities of beer at once.
The LeGardes have three full-time employees to help them run the brewery, which produces a lot of beer for a small-town operation. In 2025, Save the World pumped out enough cans to reach the top of Mount Everest more than three times and brewed enough of its most popular beer, Chasing Broncos, to fill 25 fire trucks.
While the brewing process is not your average job, it does require hard work and comes with its own challenges. The couple joked that they are brewers 5 percent of the time and janitors the other 95 percent, cleaning equipment to make sure it is in tip-top shape for the next batch of beer. There is no set schedule, with every day bearing a unique set of responsibilities depending on what stage of life the beer is in.
“It’s not a 9-to-5 job,” Brittany said. “It’s a very fluid day. There are lots of ways to cut corners and save a nickel, but what we’ve found is that by keeping our quality of work as high as possible, it yields great results.”
Save the World’s beers can be found at grocery stores across Texas, including H-E-B and Whole Foods, and they’re on draft at countless bars, taprooms, and restaurants in the state.
“We know our product backwards and forwards as well,” Brittany said. “We get to bring our customers in on the process. They get to enjoy the fruits of that labor but also get to see the whole life cycle right here in Marble Falls.”