The Sportsman combines heritage (built in 1930 as an ‘improved pub’) and modernity (at the forefront of the real cider movement and the creator of the Huddersfield International Crisp Festival!).
We’ve graced the pages of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide since 2012 and are proud winners of Huddersfield CAMRA’s Cider Pub of the Year for several years running. Of course, as you would expect from a Beerhouses pub, we also offer an excellent range of cask ales as well as a weekly Dram Club, celebrating featured whiskies.
We’re known for our tasting events and manager, John Fletcher, is also known as an Honourable Knight of The Brotherhood of the Pink Elephant, as designated by Huyghe Brewery due to his exceptional conditioning of Delirium beers on the bar. It’s what he insists his friends call him.
Food at The Sportsman
We offer a range of bar snacks, including hot pork scratchings and a wide variety of crisps and nuts. You can also order food from Big Joe’s next door via the hatch in the beer garden to eat in the pub.
Events
We offer a varied programme of events, including tasting nights, Meet the Brewer, and are the original innovators of the Huddersfield International Crisp Festival. See our socials for details of upcoming events.
Our regular events include:
Monday: Poker Night from 7pm
Tuesday: Tuesday Treats – offers on selected drinks
Thursday: Dram Club
Sunday: Quiz Night from 7pm
Function Room
We have two rooms that are available for hire. One seating 24 and the other, 18 people. They are free to hire for parties, meetings, or groupings of any kind.
Opening Times
Monday: 12:00 – 23:00
Tuesday: 12:00 – 23:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 23:00
Thursday: 12:00 – 23:00
Friday: 12:00 – 00:00
Saturday: 12:00 – 00:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 23:00
Our nominated charity is Project Youth Cancer, whose mission it is to change the way that young people experience cancer. In 2024, we set ourselves a huge target to raise at least £6000 for the charity and a huge target requires a huge challenge. Working with Huddersfield brewers, Magic Rock Brewing, we created the Yorkshire 3 Pints Challenge, which involved carrying 3 barrels up and down the Yorkshire 3 Peaks. This event, and several other fundraising activities resulted in us raising £6600. You can see more information here.
The Sportsman Beerhouse
News & Events
The Sportsman Team
We’ve got a fantastic team here at The Sportsman, but these are the people you’ll see most often:
John Fletcher
Manager
Ryan Robinson
Assistant Manager
The Latest from The Sportsman
An update on the Stamp Me app
A Stamp Me update
Is a maize-based snack really a crisp?
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival is back to ask the important questions.
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival returns
The event no crisp lover will want to miss is back in 2025 In 2024, the greatest homage to crisp consumption was created with the inaugural Huddersfield International Crisp Festival staged at The Sportsman Beerhouse. It’s fair to say it went viral; TV, radio,...
Emperor's Brewery are coming to Huddersfield on Friday for a very special Meet The Brewer so we thought it was about time we started teasing the line up...
First up, the big boy, Domain of Evil... on keg 😎
Something is wrong...you feel...cold. The cave in front of you is deep, dark and full of unknown threats. But the cave, just like this beer, has to be experienced if you are to fulfil your destiny and become a jedi.
Are you up to the challenge of a no post-fermentation adjunct imperial stout, aged in rum barrel for an astonishing 52 months, with 8 months spent on 20kg of Deglet Nour Dates? At 13.8%, you need to be ready to fight. This is a fight only against yourself though... Your weapons...you will not need them.
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Weather is getting cold. We stay warm!
Fires are on and toasty, come in and join us in our cosy side rooms. Both equipped with fires and heaters to beat the colder months ahead of us.
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Monday's are just the worst, the weekend seems like an eternity away, back to work etc... So we decided that the great people of Huddersfield need a reward for getting through Monday, and alas, TUESDAY TREATS was born. All your favourites at a fraction of the price! See you soon 🍻
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