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
Seasoned Greetings! Feast on a Crispmas dinner at The Sportsman
The Sportsman is now serving Crispmas dinner; a festive menu consisting entirely of crisps!
It’s our birthday and we’ll rebrand if we want to!
To celebrate 10 years as a business, we’ve undergone a bit of a visual transformation! We have a new brand and a new website, but we’re still the same Beerhouses and we still believe in ‘proper pubs’!
Huddersfield International Crisp Festival – the best festival ever?
The inaugural Huddersfield International Crisp Festival has gone viral!
It's Thursday... It's DRAM CLUB DAY!!! That wonderful day of the week where we select a whisky from our shelves and encourage you all to try a dram of it by slapping a cheeky discount on it. This week is the wonderful Glengoyne 10 year 😍
An easy-drinking single malt from the Highlands, the Glengoyne 10 Year Old is the entry-level bottling from the Dumgoyne-based distillery, offering a typically soft introduction to their popular range. This expression has been aged in sherry casks for a decade and carries pleasing flavours of apple, cream and vanilla. It’s one of the few whiskies that’s made out of 100% unpeated malt, which dries naturally as part of a slow distillation process. The result is a clean and elegant dram.
Was £4.00/6.00... NOW £3.50/5.50!!! See you soon 🥃
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⚔️ KNIGHT OF REN - NATIONAL LAUNCH ⚔️
Tartarus Beers x Emperor's Brewery / 28th March 2025
A 12.2% coconut, pistachio and chocolate imperial stout. Only available in a select few bars across the UK... and we're one of them 👀 Swing by on Friday for a can of the good stuff, but hurry, we've only got a limited number!
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HOMEBREW HEROES IS BACK!
Last year we ran this competition for the first time and the response was overwhelmingly positive; we made the news for it, the beer brewed won awards, CAMRA did a feature on the competition, and people loved both the beer and the idea. And ever since the competition ended, people have been demanding it's return...
So, without further ado, introducing HOMEBREW HEROES 2! A competition to find Huddersfield's best homebrewer, with this year focussing on brewing a dark ale between 4.0% and 5.5% abv. Whether it be a stout, porter, mild, flavoured, traditional, whatever!... we don't mind as long as it's dark and in that abv range.
The winner will get to brew their beer at the Mallinsons Brewery, name it (within reason) and see their beer go on cask in all Beerhouses pubs! Not only that, but to top it all off, you'll receive a GALLON of your own beer completely free of charge.
The judges will be looking for a beer that is commercially viable (so nothing ridiculously expensive to produce), looking at aroma, flavour, presentation and overall quality. Do you think you have what it takes or know someone who might? Then send us a message to get your application form!
Application forms must be submitted by midnight July 26th, beers must be delivered to The Sportsman by August 1st, judging will begin 1PM August 2nd. Terms and conditions apply, see our Facebook event page for details.
Good luck 🍻
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