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 CHOSEN CHARITIES
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
Two Beerhouses pubs make The Telegraph Best Pubs List!
The Sportsman and Stalybridge Buffet Bar have once again made it onto The Telegraph’s Best Pubs List!
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.
If you only do one thing this weekend, make sure it's to come to The Sportsman and drink a pint of this absolute nectar of the gods 🔥
Fresh on the bar today is arguably the most important piece of brewing history in a cask right now. Based on a recipe from that famous 1822 voyage where Samuel Allsopp brewed a beer in a teapot which was designed specifically to survive the long sea journey to India. The very first India Pale Ale.
Over time, the IPA has evolved become one of the most iconic and popular styles of beer. But today, 204 years on from that first teapot brew, you can taste a bit of history and see where it all began.
See you soon 🍻
Samuel Allsopp & Sons Kirkstall Brewery
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We love a bit of history here at The Sportsman and if we can combine it with a dram club discount at the same time then even better! This weeks dram is the incredible Green Spot Single Pot Still from Ireland 😍
"So what's the history?" I hear you ask. Well it's all to do with the Irish government introducing a tax in 1785 and Irish distillers deciding that they didn't want to pay it. The tax was on malted barley, and for those who aren't aware, malted barley is quite important when it comes to making whiskey. But, determined to get around these new taxes, the distillers of Ireland came up with a clever plan... Mix the expensive malted barley with the much cheaper unmalted barley!
Green Spot still uses this combination of malted and unmalted barley which gives it a very unusually thick, creamy mouthfeel which can be observed from the legs when you swirl your glass. And it's not just the glass that the whiskey clings to, it does that to your mouth as well giving Green Spot it's famously long finish.
Anyways, thanks for reading my rambling on how the 18th century Irish government's tax laws resulted in a really good whiskey on offer today at The Sportsman 🥃
Was £5.00/£7.50... NOW £4.50/£7.00!!! See you soon ❤️
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We have some top notch beer on the bar for todays cask line up and we promise we won't tell your boss if you clock off early to sup it 🍻 On the wickets we have:
Mallinsons Brewing Company - Lemondrop (3.8%)
Rooster's Brewing Co. - White Rose (4.3%)
Thornbridge Brewery - Packet In (4.2%)
Thornbridge Brewery x Ossett Brewery - Over The Tops (4.5%)
Long Man Brewery - Indian Summer (4.8%)
Vocation Brewery - George Crum Bitter (4.0%)
Thornbridge Brewery x The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert (5.5%)
Rooster's Brewing Co. - Scoundrel (4.2%)
#beer #craftbeer #caskbeer #realale #huddersfield #huddersfielduni #goodbeerguide #camra #belgianbeer #trappistbeer #dogfriendly #huddersfieldinternationalcrispfest ...
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